464 INDEX. 



Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, returns of tlie, 323. 



Meal, corn, feeding of, 78. 



Meal, cotton-seed, feeding of, to milch cows, 74, 77. 



Middlesex Agricultural Society, returns of the, 323. 



Middlesex North Agricultural Society, returns of the, 323. 



Middlesex South Agricultural Society, returns of the, 324. 



Milch cows, feeding of cotton-seed meal to, 74, 77. 



Military training, importance of, 155. 



Milk and cream, tests of, 247. 



Milk, composition of, 62. 



Milk decisions of the State Supreme Court, 255. 



Milk fever, prevention of, 58. 



Milk inspector, Boston, co-operation of, with Dairy Bureau, 239. 



Milk, production of, effect of exposure and storms on the, 68, 70. 



Milk standard, concerning the, 249. 



Mills, Prof. Geo. F., lectui'e by, on education for the agricultural and other 



industrial classes, 129. 

 Moisture for crops, importance of supply of, 38. 



Nantucket Agricultural Society, returns of the, 325. 



Needham, Hon. Daniel, report by, on the Farmers' Congress at Savannah, 



Ga., 414. 

 Nuisances, common, statutes relating to the suppression of, 441. 

 Nursery bought trees, concerning, 189. 



Ocneria dispar. See Gypsy moth. 



Oleomargarine, concerning the anti-color law, 240. 



Oleomargarine decisions of the State Supreme Court, 250. 



Oleomargarine, detective and court work of Dairy Bureau in relation to, 



240. 

 Oleomargarine is sold for butter, how, 242. 

 Oleomargarine legislation, need of further, 242. 

 Orchards, apple, fertilizers for, 173. 

 Orchards, apple, locations for, 162, 174, 180. 

 Orchards, peach, fertilizer for, 187. 

 Oxford Agricultural Society, returns of the, 325. 

 Overreaching, cause of a horse, 107, 124. 



Parasites of the gypsy moth, concerning the, 297. 



Paris green as an insecticide, 178, 183. 



Parker, S. I., lecture by, on raising crops with commercial fertilizers, 28. 



Pasture, driving cows to and from the, 55. 



Pasture, importance of good, 54. 



Peach culture, and desirable varieties of the peach, 167, 168, 186. 



Peach orchards, fertilizer for, 187. 



Peach yellows, concerning, 168. 



Pear blight, concerning, 167. 



Pear, cultivation of the, 164. 



Pear on quince stock, grafting of the, 165. 



Pear, varieties of the, desirable, 166. 



Percheron horses, concerning, 122. 



Plaster in the stable, use of, 87. 



