140 INDEX. 



Page. 



Field observations, miscellaneous, 80 



Fish waste, , 113 



Fodder corn, experiments with, 44 



Fodder corn, analyses of, 48 



Fodder corn for silo, 58 



Fodder corn, fertilizers for, 47 



Fodder crops, new, 61 



Frosts ; record of, for 1885, 122 



Fruit and garden crops, 83-96 



Garden crops and fruits, 83-96 



Gluten meal, 23 



Grasses, 56 



Green manuring, 67 



Ground bones, 110 



Hampden Prolific corn, 96 



High meadow hay, 98 



Home-made superphosphate, analysis of, Ill 



Hominy meal, 100 



Horse bean, 62 



Horse bean and barley, 64 



Horse bean and oats, 62 



Horse bean and white lupine for green manuring, 67 



Horse radish, 94 



Influence of fertilizers on quantity and quality, 51 



Influence of fertilizers on Indian corn, 51 



Influence of fertilizers on grasses, 56 



Influence of fertilizers on pearl millet, 53 



Krugit, 108 



Lime kiln ashes, 108 



Lime, refuse, 108 



Lombard plum, 84 



Luzerne 70, 71 



Material taken from a ditch in a marsh, 115 



Meteorology 120-125 



Meteorology, miscellaneous phenomena, 123 



Meteorology, summary of observations for 188o, 124 



Middlings 101 



Milk, analyses of, 13,14,17 



Molasses, analysis of, 101 



Muck, 115 



Muriate of potash, 106,107 



Nitrate of soda, 114 



Nutritive ratio, 11 



Observations on apples, 85-92 



Pearl millet, 53 



Pigs, feeding experiments with 23-44 



Plaster, • . . . 109 



Plum, Lombard, analyses of, 84 



Pomace, analyses of, 85-88 



Pork, cost per pound, according to experiment, 41 



Potash salts, analyses of, 105, 106 



Potash, muriate, analyses of, 106, 107 



Potato, determination of solids in, 74 



Potato, experiments with, . . . ' 72-75 



Potato, yield on different plats 73 



Rain fall, record for 1885, 122 



