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Agriculture, New England, the place that fruit growing should hold 



in, lecture on, by S. D. Willard, 109 



Alfalfa, concerning, 190, 209 



Amesbury and Salisbury Agricultural and Horticultural Society, re- 

 turns of the, 567 



Animals, domestic, and sanitation, report of committee on, . . 250 



Anthrenus verbasci, concerning the, 475 



Apple, cultivation of the, 114 



Appleton, Francis H., report by, as chairman of committee on for- 

 estry, roads and roadside improvements, 254 



Appropriations for agricultural purposes, legislative, .... xvii 



Apricots, cultivation and varieties of, 123 



Australia, meat inspection in, 541 



Babcock test, use of the, 165, 179 



Bacteria are, what, 353 



Barley as a catch-crop, 328 



Barley and peas as a forage crop, 199 



Barns, disinfection and cleanliness in, 370, 495 



Barnstable County Agricultural Society, returns of the, . . . 568 



Bean, horse and soja, as catch-crops, 337 



Beans, soja, as a forage crop, 198, 209 



Beetle, an egg-eating, paper on, by A. F. Burgess, .... 475 



Belgium, meat inspection in, 538 



Berkshire Agricultural Society, mortgage of property of, . . . 3 



Berkshire Agricultural Society, returns of the, 568 



Black knot, eradication of the, 120, 122, 124 



Blackstone Valley Agricultural Society, returns of the, . . . 569 

 Board of Agriculture. See Agriculture, Board of. 



Boston milk and butter supply, statistics of, ... . 396, 398 

 Bowditch, N. I., essay by, on future of Massachusetts agriculture, . 274 

 Brewster, C. K. , essay by, on the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege : its criticisms, its benefits, 264 



Bristol County Agricultural Society, returns of the, .... 570 



Brooks, Wm. P., essay by, on catch-crops, '. 316 



Brown-tail moth, concerning the, xxi, 423, 433 



Buckwheat as a catch-crop, 331 



Bureau, Dairy, eighth annual report of the, 381 



Burgess, A. F., paper by, on an egg-eating beetle, .... 475 



Burlapping to destroy the gypsy moth, 437 



Burning as a remedy for the San Jose scale, 304 



Business side of agriculture, the, lecture on, by J. H. Hale, . . 84 



Butter, imitation, concerning, 383 



Butter, renovated or process, 395 



Butter, statistics of quantity and price, 157, 396 



Canada, meat inspection in, 541 



Candage, R. G. F., report by, on Farmers' National Congress at Fort 



Worth, 553 



Carbolic acid as a disinfectant, 373 



Catch-crops, essay on, by Wm. P. Brooks 316 



