60 INDEX. 



fage. 



Capital in farming, essay upon the use of, 327, 336 



Carrots, soil for and cultivation of, 230, 240, 244 



Cattle Commissioners, Report of, 7, 10 



Causes of sterility, 87,88 



Causes of variations in breeds, 92, 93, 94 



Chestnut Hill road, 67, 73 



Chinese in California, 275, 276 



Climate influences variations in breeds, 03,94 



Clark, W. S., essay by, 287, 304 



Coal ashes, value of for a fertilizer, 210 



Colorado potato beetles, 353 



Construction of roads, 45, 47 



Contagious character of foot and mouth disease, 9, 137, 380, 383 



Commissioners on highways should be appointed, 00, 61 



Corn produced on one acre, 187, 189 



Cost of production of an acre of carrots, 240 



Crops should be adapted to localities, 162 



Crushed stones, use of in road building, 53 



Cultivation of root crops, . . . ." 229,235,240,245 



Culture and preservation of fruits, report on, 348, 351 



Currant worms, 356, 357, 360, 361 



Dam, influence of, on progeny, 105, 115 



Defects in road building, ' 46, 48, 49 



Defects in our present system of managing roads, . . . .46, 49, 57, 64, 65 



Defects of the sj'stem of working out road taxes, 57,59 



Delegates to societies' exhibitions, 337 



Difference in the composition of soils, 170,180,186,200,201 



Difference of value in stable manures, 199, 200 



Disease and accident, influence of in breeding, 102 



Dormant seeds and spores, 301 



Dragon-flies, 378, 380 



Drainage in road-making to be secured, 49, 72 



Education of farmers, 15, 309 



English racer, origin of, 91, 02 



Epizootic Aphtlia, 7, 10, 136, 137, 380, 381, .383 



European llape Butterfly, . 368, 369 



European roads, superiority of, ....... . 70, 74, 77, 78, 79 



Experiments with fertilizers. 180, 183, 185, 187, 190, 197, 214 



Farm accounts, value of a system of, 322,326 



Farming in New England can be made profitable, 103,194,196 



Farming without manure, ........... 213 



Farms, magnitude of, in California, ......... 262 



Feeding influences variations in breeding, 92, 03, 130 



Fertilizers, discussion on, 202, 204, 220, 228 



Fertilization of flowers, 297 



First impregnation, influence of, ......... . 97 



Fifld culture of roots and vegetables. 220,232,240,245 



Fish ponuice, value of as a fertilizer 196,203,225,232 



Flint, C. L., lecture by, 20, 40, 60, 63 



Fcctus, membranes of the, 85 



Frctus, nutrition of the, 85 



Foot and mouth disease among cattle, ...... 7 10, 136, 380, 383 



