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INDEX. 



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Feces, composition of, ........ . 249 



Feedstuffs, composition, . . . , . . . . . 242 



Water consumed, .......... 256 



Weight of animals, .......... 256 



Wheat gluten flour, effect of, on digestibility of hay, .... 314 



Distillers' grains, digestion coefficients, ....... 317 



Egg production, ........... 57a 



Broodiness, ........... 58a 



Hatching quality of eggs, ......... 59a 



Raising chicks on clean ground, ....... 59a 



Winter cycle of, ......... . 57a 



European corn borer, ......... 53a, 147 



Feeding stuffs law, change in, . . . . . . . . . 44a 



Feed law account, ........... 12a 



Fertilizer experiments, Barium-Phosphate, ...... 43a 



Chemical. fertilizers and manure for market-garden crops (Field C), . 24a 



Comparison of muriate and high-grade sulfate of potash (Field B), . 23a 



Comparison of phosphates, ........ 28a 



Comparison of potash salts (Field G), . . . . . . 26a 



Cranberry substation, ......... 222 



Fertilizers for corn, comparison (North Corn Acre), .... 29a 



Nature's Wonder Mineral Plant Food, vegetation tests with, . . 43a 



Nitrogen experiments (Field A), ....... 21a 



Soil tests 29a, 30a 



Sulfate of ammonia v. nitrate of soda as a top-dressing for hay, . . 32a 



Yields of hay with different top-dressings (Grass Plots), . . . 31a 



Fertilizer law account, . . . . . . . . . .11a 



Fertilizers collected and analyzed, ........ 41a 



Registered, ........... 41a 



Feterita, digestion coefficients, ........ 318 



Food and feed consumption, survey of, ...... . 19a 



Frost injury to crops, .......... 35a 



Fruit crop diseases, apple scab, ........ 35a 



Brown rot, ........... 35a 



Peach leaf curl, . . . . . . . . . . 34a 



Fruits, tree and leaf characters in varieties of , . . . . . . 54a 



Garbage tankage, New Bedford, digestion coefficients, .... 327 



Gluten feed, digestion coefficients, . . . . . . . .310 



Gluten feed and English hay, digestion coefficients, ..... 308 



Gluten meal. Diamond, digestion coefficients, ...... 312 



Graves' Orchard account, . . . . . ... . . 13a 



Green-striped maple worm injuring foliage, ...... 52a 



Hay, English, digestion coefficients, ........ 307 



Hay, English, and gluten feed, digestion coefficients, ..... 308 



Hay, English, potato starch and Diamond gluten meal, digestion co- 

 efficients, .......... 309 



Hay, sulfate of ammonia v. nitrate of soda as a top-dressing for, . . . 32a 



Hay, yields with different top-dressings, ....... 31a 



Hog cholera, value of anti-hog cholera serum in the prevention of, . . 63a 



Insecticides, chemical work with, ........ 40a 



Insects common in 1917, ......... 52a 



Chrysanthemum gall midge, ........ 51a 



Cranberry, ........... 223 



European corn borer, . . . . . . . 53a, 147 



Green-striped maple worm, injuring foliage, ..... 52a 



Onion fly, control, .......... 52a 



Potato plant louse, . , , , ; . . . . 52a, 135 



