INDEX. 



463 



PAGE 



253 

 187 



383 



i, 111 

 95 



Catdc. Bureau, financial statenunit of the, ..... 



Fouilecnlli semiannual report of the Chief of Ihe, 

 Chickens, artificial hatching and rearing of, as applied to Soutli 



Shore roasters, essay on, by Henry 1). Smith, 

 College, Massachusetts Agricultural. Sec Agricultural College. 

 Country life, commission on, concerning the, . . . xxvi 



Cow, variations in the, ........ 



Cow and tlic man, tlie, the twins of tlie dairy industry, lecture 



on, by Prof. II. II. Dean, 94 



Cow-testing associations, concerning, ... 8, 106, 175 



Cows, training of, ......... 98 



Cream, statistics relating to, ...... . 269 



(^rcameries and milk dejiots in Massachusetts, list of, . . 278 



Crop reports, concerning, ........ xxvi 



Crojjs in 1908, concerning, ...... xxxiii 



Hairy Bureau, concerning the, ....... xxiii 



Eighteenth annual report of the, . . . . .261 



Financial report of the, . . . . . . .281 



Work of the, as shown l)y statistics, • . . . . 263 



Dairy farm, suggestions for the man on the, .... 102 



Dean, I'rof. II. II., lecture by, on the cow and the man, the twins 



of the dairy industry, ....... 9-1 



Directory of agricultural and similar associations, . . . 435 



Diseases of bees, concerning the, ...... 82 



Drainage, beneficial effects of, ...... . 372 



Essay on, by Trof. Wm. V. Brooks, 370 



Indications of desirability of, ..... . 373 



] drainage in Massachusetts, special reasons for the importance of, 371 

 1 )rains, direction of, proper distances, depth, .... 378 



Kinds of 374 



Laying out and construction of, ..... . 381 



Location of, the, 377 



Ellsworth, J. Lewis, report by, as secretaiy of the Board of 



Agriculture, ........ vii 



Besponse by, at Greenfield, ...... 18 



Elm-leaf beetle, birds that eat tlic, . . . . . .342 



Exhibitions, agricultural, dates of, an<l assignment of inspectors 



to, 155 



Experiments and station work, report of committee on, . . 158 



Fairs oi agricultural societies, dates of, and assignment of in- 

 spectors to, . . . . . . . . .155 



Farmer assist in the reforestation of New England, how may 



the 314 



