INDEX. 461 



Fertilizer for peach orcliards, 187. 



Fertilizei's, commercial, I'aising crops with, lecture on, by S. I. Pai'ker, 28. 



Fertilizers, commercial, crops with, growing of, 38, 46. 



Fertilizers, commercial, for apple orchards, 173. 



Fertilizers, commercial, for grass, communication on, by Dr. Jabez Fisher, 



41. 

 Fertilizers, commercial, for grass, sowing of, 40, 42, 50. 

 Fertilizers, commercial, home mixing of, 49. 

 Fertilizers, commercial, raising of hay with, 30. 

 Fertilizei's, commercial, raising of rye with, 34, 51. 

 Fertilizers, commercial, for vegetables, use of, 42. 

 Fertilizei's, commercial, in market gardening, use of, 37. 

 Fertilizers, commercial, vs. stable manure, 38, 44. 

 Fever, milk, prevention of, 58. 



Fisher, Dr. Jabez, communication by, on use of fertilizers for grass, 41. 

 Fly, horn, concerning the, 56, 71, 73. 

 Food, green, vs. dry, 79. 

 Food, effect of, on manure, 45. 

 Forbush, E. H., report by, as field director of the gypsy moth committee, 



281. 

 Forest reservations, public, concerning protection of, 340. 

 Forests, act authorizing towns and cities to provide for the preservation 



and reproduction of, 430. 

 Fowler, C. F., essay by, on tobacco culture, 354. 

 Franklin County Agricultural Society, returns of, 313. 

 Fruit culture, importance of, 161. 

 Fruit growing, lecture on, by E. W. Wood, 161. 



Fruit growing in Massachusetts, opportunities for and possibilities of, 171. 

 Fruit, thinning of, 175, 177. 

 Fruit trees, effect of climate on, 182. 

 Fruit trees, spraying of, 175, 177. 



Gaming, statutes relating to, 440, 441. 



Glanders, concerning the presence of, 213. 



Grain, dry brewers', for feeding horses, 125. 



Grange, State, officers of the, 408. 



Granges, Pomona, district and subordinate, officers of, 409. 



Grape, cultivation and varieties of the, 171. 



Grass, fertilizers for, and their application, 40, 42, 50. 



Grass land, use of ground bone in reseeding, 36. 



Great Barrington, butter exhibition at, concerning the, 245. 



Great Barrington, public winter meeting of the Board of Agriculture at, 23. 



Great Barrington, special meeting of the Board of Agriculture at, 11. 



Green manuring, concerning the practice of, 38. 



Green vs. dry food, 79. 



Gypsy moth, act to provide against depredations by the insect known as 



the Ocneria dispar or, 427. 

 Gypsy moth, distribution of, means of preventing extended, 283. 

 Gypsy moth, eggs of the, are scattered, how the, 292. 

 Gypsy moth, eggs of the, destroying of, by chemicals, 281. 

 Gypsy moth, exterminated, why the, has not been, 291. 

 Gypsy moth extermination, difficulty and expense of, 291. 



