INDEX. 



4G7 



Season of 1908, progress of the, .... 

 Sheep, native, origin of the, ..... 



Rape for, cultivation of, .... . 

 Sheep intlustr}' in Massachusetts, the, lecture on, by L. B. Harris, 

 Sheep topics for Massachusetts farmers, some, essay on, by Prof 



Kay L. Gribben, ..... 

 Smith, Henry 1)., essay by, on artificial hatching and learing of 



chickens, as applied to South Shore roasters. 

 Societies, agricultural. See Agricultural societies. 

 South Shore roasters, concerning, 

 State Dairy Bureau, eighteenth annual report of the, 

 State forest survej', concerning a, . . . 



State Forester, fifth annual report of the, . 



Financial statement by the, 



Lectures by the, ..... 



Sale of i)ublications by the. 

 State Nursery Insijector, seventh annual report of the. 

 State Ornithologist, concerning the a2)i)ointment of a, 



First annual report of the, . 

 Station work, report of committee on experiments and, 

 Statistics of poultry i>roducts, ..... 

 Stewart, Charles, lecture by, on profital>le l)ee keeping. 

 Strawberry beds, fertilizers for, management of. 

 Strawberry crop, marketing the, .... 



Strawberry culture, essay on, by Prof. F. A. "NVaugh, 

 Strawberry plants, getting and setting out, 



Diseases and insects, ...... 



General culture, mulching of, . 



Taxation, concerning exemption of reforested lands from. 

 Tile, drain, kinds of, ..... 



Size of, to lay, ...... 



Tiles, drain, special forms of, for particular uses. 

 Trespass laws, extracts from the, concerning. 

 Tuberculosis in work of the Cattle Bureau, 

 Turkeys, black head in, .... . 



Voorhees, Dr. E. B., lecture by, on the profitable use of com- 

 mercial fertilizers, 



PAOB 



cxxiii 



21 



1.5, 30 

 20 



392 



383 



383 

 261 

 327 

 285 

 323 

 304 

 293 

 181 

 xxiv 

 333 

 158 

 51 

 70 

 419 

 422 

 415 

 416 

 421 

 418 



292 

 375 

 380 

 376 

 xxxi 

 239 

 72 



115 



Wachusett Reservoir, forestry work in connection with the con- 

 struction of the, . . . . . . . .319 



Waugh, Prof. F. A., essay by, on strawberry culture, . . 415 



Weather, Massachusetts, in 1908, ..... xxxvi, xl 



Weymouth Agricultural and Industrial Society, mortgage of, . 3 

 Woodlands, examination of, in work of State Forester, . . 295 



Woods, Dr. Chas. D., essay by, on potato-growing suggestions, . 357 



