INDEX TO SECRETARIES REPORT. 



Page. 



Abortion, causes of, 90. 91, 131, 132, 134 



Abundance of good road material, 52,53 



Action of the Board of Agriculture in relation to pleuro-pneumonia, ... 16 



Adulteration in fertilizers, 195, 197, 198, 220, 224, 226 



Advantages of keeping farm accounts, 322,326 



Agricultural College farm as a seed farm, 320, 321 



Agricultural College, Report of Examining Committee on, 304,310 



Agricultural implements, improvement in, . 18 



Agricultural products of California, 260,263 



American trotting horses and their characteristics, 120, 121 



Ancon sheep, origin of, . '. . . . 115 



Animal manures compared with special, 183 



Apple crops in Massachusetts, 246, 247, 253 



Arlington market gardeners, 315 



Ashes, value of as a fertilizer, 195, 202, 203 



Assignment of delegates to societies' exhibitions, . ...... 337 



Attavism and reversion, tendency to, 98, 99 



Ayrshires, diversity in color of, 127, 128 



Barre system of feeding, 135 



Bassett, C. C, Report by, 322, 326 



Ijean weevil, 370 



Beets, varieties of, 238, 239 



Big trees of California, 278, 279, 281 



Blake's stone crusher, 53 



Boardof Agriculture, annual meeting of, 286,304,326.339,345 



Board of Agriculture, influence of, 14,15,18 



Board of Agriculture, origin of, 12 



Board of Agriculture, public meeting of, at Framingham, . . • H, 82, 178, 286 



Bone manures, value of, 182, 185, 187, 192, 204, 209 



Bones, treatment of for fertilizers, 182,183,187,191,192 



Breeds adapted to localities, 94, 95, 121, 122, 123 



Breeding in and in, results of, 100, 101 



Breeding, principles of, 82, 88, 91, 100, 112 



Brighton the focus of the foot and mouth disease, 9,381 



Bureau of Roads and Bridges, proposed establishment of, 63 



Cabbage butterfly, 353, 368, 370 



Cabbages, varieties and cultivation of, 245, 319 



California, lecture on the resources of, 259, 264, 270, 286 



Canker worms may be conquered, 257 



Capacity for reproduction in plants, 292, 293 



