464 INDEX. 



Board of Agriculture, State, roster of the, 429. 



Board of Agriculture, work of the, lecture on, by Secretar}^ Wm. R. 



Sessions, 249. 

 Board of Cattle Commissioners, 431. 

 Board of Cattle Commissioners, report of, 447. 

 Bowker, AVm. II., lecture by, on the harvest of the sea, or the relation 



of the fisheries to agi'iculture, 120. 

 Breeds and varieties, the value of, — how they are formed; the effect 



of food on breeds, lecture on, by Prof. I. P. Roberts, 162. 

 Bristol Comity Agriciiltural Society, 321. 

 Brooks, Prof. Wm. P., lecture by, on work of the Agricultural College 



and Hatch Experiment Station, 187. 



Cattle Commission, work of the State, lecture on, by Prof. Levi Stock- 

 bridge, 220. 



Cattle Commissioners, Board of, 431. 



Cattle Commissioners, report of the, 447. 



Cattle foods, home-grown or purchased, lecture on, by Prof James 

 Cheesman, 16. 



Channel Islands and their agriculture, the, lecture on, by Dr. Henry H. 

 Goodell, 99. 



Cheesman, Prof James, lecture by, on home-grown or jiurchased cattle 

 foods, 16. 



College and Hatch Experiment Station, work of the Agricultural, lecture 

 on, by Prof. Wm. P Brooks, 187. 



College, Massachusetts Agricultural, corporation, 430. 



Dairy Bureau, report of the State, 299. 



Deerfield Valley Agricultural Society, 322. 



Delegates to fairs, assignment of, 357. 



Directory of agricultural and similar organizations in the State, 429. 



Eastern Hampden Agricultural Society, 323. 



Essex Agi-icultural Society, 324. 



Executive committee, meetings of, 3. 



Experiment Station, Hatch, officers of, 430. 



Experiment Station, State, officers of, 431. 



Experiment Station, work of the Agricultural College and Hatch, lecture 



on, by Prof. Wm. P. Brooks, 187. 

 Experiment Station, work of the Massachusetts State, lecture on, by Dr. 



C. A. Goessmann, 212. 

 Experiment stations of Germany, the agricultural, essay on, l)y Dr. J. 



B. Lindsey, 369. 



Farmers' clubs, oflicei's of, 433. 



Farmers' Congress at Lincoln, Neb., report on the, by Hon. Daniel 

 Necdham, 444. 



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

 mittee, 296. 



Financial returns, etc., of the agricultural societies, 317. 



