460 INDEX. 



Dairy Bureau, State, annual I'eport of the, to the Legislature, 238. 



Dairy Bureau, State, co-operation of, with the Boston milk inspector, 239. 



Dairy Bureau, State, detective and court work of the, 240. 



Dairy Bureau, State, financial statement of the, 261. 



Dairy Bureau, State, officers aud members of the, 400. 



Dairy cattle. ^See Cattle and Cows. 



Dairy education, concerning, C6. 



Deerfleld Valley Agricultural Society, returns of the, 310. 



Delegates to agricultural exhibitions, assignment of, 346. 



Directory of agricultural and similar organizations, 397. 



Docking of horses, concerning the practice of, 118. 



Eastern Hampden Agricultural Society, returns of the, 311. 



Education, dairy, concerning, 66. 



Education, definitions of, 133. 



Education for the agricultural and other industrial classes, lecture on, 



by Prof. Geo. F. Mills, 129. 

 Education, importance of, 129. 

 Education in Massachusetts, beginnings of, 129. 

 Ensilage corn, raising of, with fertilizers, 34. 

 Entomologist of gypsy moth committee, report of Prof. C. H. Fernald as, 



295. 

 Essex Agricultural Society, returns of the, 312. 

 Executive Committee of the Board of Agriculture, minutes of meetings 



of, 3. 

 Exhibitions, agricultural. See Agricultural. 

 Experiment Station, State Agricultural, act to establish a, 431. 

 Experiment Station, State Agricultural, act relating to the annual i-eport 



of the, 432. 

 Experiment Station, State Agricultural, Board of Control and officers of, 



402. 

 Experts, relative to the employment of, by societies, 4, 452. 



Fairs, good order at, statutes relating to, 439. 



Farmers' clubs, officers of, 405. 



Farmers' clubs, statute relating to, 439. 



Farmers' Congress at Savannah, Ga., report on the, by Hon. Daniel Need- 

 ham, 414. 



Farmers' institutes, relative to the holding of, 7, 453, 454. 



Farming, the pleasures of, essay on, by Wm. Bancroft, 371. 



Farms, abandoned, act to authorize the State Board of Agriculture to col- 

 lect and circulate information relating to, 426. 



Farms, exhausted, the restoration of, by practical methods, essay on, by 

 Elbridge Cushman, 383. 



Feeding of balanced rations, 62, 75. 



Feeding of corn meal, 78. 



Feeding of cotton-seed meal, 74, 77. 



Feeding of cows, 62. 



Feeding of dairy cattle, the handling and, lecture on, by W. D. Hoard, 53. 



Feeding of horses, 116, 126. 



Fernald, Prof. C. H.. report by, as entomologist of the gypsy moth com- 

 mittee, 295. 



