136 INDEX. 



Pagb 



Potatoes, large and small for seed, 84 



" " Protector," 91, 92 



" seed used in experiment 87-90 



" yield on different plats, 87-90 



Principles of feeding, 13 



Provender, 51 



Record of cows during feeding experiment, 16 



Report of Director, 7-130 



Rhode Island Greening, analysis of, 49 



Rotten brewers' grains, 103 



Rowen after treatment in silo, 66 



" dried in field, 66 



Rye bi:an, 40 



Scabby potatoes as seed, yield from 91 



" " conclusions from ohservations with, 92 



" " observations with, 89-92 



" " preparations tried for prevention of, 90, 91 



Self-husking corn 42 



Serradella, 78, 79 



Silo, amount of mouldy ensilage in, 62 



" argument in favor of, 66 



" conclusions in regard to mode of filling, 64 



" method of filling, 61,62 



" time of filling, 61, 62 



" temperatures of, 61, 62 



Skim milk, 30 



Snow-fivU during 1886, .125 



Solids in drinking water 123 



Station bulletins, 10 



Steamed bones, 116 



Stock feeding, aim of, 33 



Sugar beet, analysis of, 21 



Sulphate of ammonia, 118 



Sulphate of potash, 110 



Summary of meteorological observations, . . • 127 



Sweet apples, analysis of, 49 



" " ensilage, 42 



Temperatures of silo, 61 



Time of tilling silo, 61 



Tobacco stems, 101, 102 



Trade values of fertilizing ingredients, 98,99 



Treasurer's report, 130 



Valuation of fodder articles used during experiment with cows, . . . .11,12 



Valuation of fertilizers and fertilizer analyses, 97-119 



Vetch , ■ 76, 77 



Vilmorin sugar beet, 48 



Waste hemlock tan bark ashes, 105 



Well waters, analyses of, 120 



Wheat bran, analysis of, 21, 38 



" middlings, analysis of, 39 



" bran, value per ton of fertilizing ingredients, 50 



'• meal, « « « <« 50 



" middlings, value per ton of fertilizing ingredients, 39 



Wood ashes 105, 106, 107, 108 



Yield of com plats, 71 



YieFd of grass plats 71, 72 



