xxxii INDEX. 



New England Agricultural Society, 63, 65 



Night soil of Paris, use and value of, 279,282,283 



Nurseries of the Booths at Flotbeck, 143,144 



Practical farming, schools of, 163, 170, 173, 210, 212 



Pleuro-pneumonia, 5, 14, 19, 23, 62 



Poppelsdorf Agricultural Institute, 164,166,167 



Prizes offered for agricultural implements, 284, 286 



Pruning of grapes, 52 



Prussia, sheep husbandry in, , . 130 



Rabbits, injury done by, 275, 276 



Eambouillet, the sheep of, 133, 136, 273 



Resources of Massachusetts, 43,44 



Rotation of manures, 48 



Rothamsted, experiments at, 294, 295 



Rural cemeteries in Europe, 146, 148 



Rural population, condition of the, . ; 29,31,152 



Saxony, sheep husbandry in, 128, 129 



Schiller's house at Weimar, 155, 156 



Schleissheini Agricultural Institute, 210, 212, 214 



Schleswig, cattle of, Ill 



Seedlings, raising of, 53 



Sexes, influences of, 57 



Sheep at the International Exhibition, 128, 133, 137 



Sheep husbandry, a talk on, 59, 61, 128, 130, 191, 194, 281 



Sheep, varieties of, 59, 61, 128, 132, 192, 194, 224 



Shorthorn crosses, resort to, 127 



Silesia, sheep husbandry in, 130, 131, 132 



Simmenthaler cows, qualities of, 114, 186 



Soils of Massachusetts, 42,44,47,51,53,74,76,96,100,103 



Special courses in agricultural schools, 174, 176 



Springfield, meeting of the Board at, 25, 42, 55, 59 



State cabinet, additions to the, 104 



Stock, method of feeding, 187,188,191,195 



Swiss brown cows, 114, 115, 120, 223, 273 



Tile drains, kinds of, 79, 80 



Twins, frequency of, 194 



Vaujours, experimental farm at, . . . . ^ . . . . . 274, 281 



Vincennes, experimental dairy at, ■ . . • . 273, 274 



Vineyards, culture of, 54 



Voigtlander cattle, characteristics of, 124 



"Weight of cattle, live and dressed, 117,119,186,196 



Weihenstephan Agricultural Institute, 116, 201, 203 



Zillerthaler cattle, quality of, . ■ . 116 



Zoological gardens in Europe 144, 145 



