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Specialties in farming, importance of, 106, 330, 331 



Special fertilizers, frauds in 195, 106, 197, 198, 214 



Spermatozoa and their mission, 82, 83 



Stable manures, difference in value of, 199, 200 



Sterility, causes of, 87, 88, 90 



Slock keeping in California, 202 



Stone crushers, value of, 53, 66 



Stones, use of in road building, 52,53,66 



Straight lines in road building, 45 



StraAvberries, soil for and cultivation of, 249, 207 



Sugar waste, value of, 220, 224, 229 



Superphosphates, value of, 187, 190, 195, 197, 214, 224 



Swale haj'^, curing of, 345 



Symptoms of foot and mouth disease, 136,137 



Thompson, James, biographical sketch of, 19, 346, 348 



Thompson, James, resolutions on the death of, 258 



Thoroughbred seeds, 312, 313, 315, 317 



Thoroughbreds, how constituted, 118, 119, 120 



Time of cutting and mode of cutting hay, essay upon, 339,345 



Treatment of bones for fertilizers, 182,183,187,191,192. 



Turnips, soil for and cultivation of, 230, 232 



Two-lined Telephorus, 374 



Uniformity of system in road building, 55 



Union Agricultural Society, change of time of fair, 337 



Use and disuse of generative organs influence breeding, ..... 95 



Use of capital in farming, essay upon, 327, 336 



Value of a system of farm accounts, essay upon, 322,326 



Value of fruit crops in Massachusetts, . .• 246 



Value of herd books, 128, 129 



Variations in breeds, causes of, 92, 93, 94, 96, 97, 99 



Varieties of soil on one farm, 179,180,186,200 



Vegetables, culture of, 229, 240, 242, 245, 312, 320 



Waltham, road system of, 61, 62 



Weeds unproiitable crops, 237, 317 



Westborough, way thej^ mend roads in, 51 



What constitutes a pure-bred animal, 118, 119, 120 



Wheat may be grown in Massachusetts, .190 



Wheat the principal crop of California, 260 



Wider roads needed, 66, 67, 72, 73 



Wilder, M. P., address by, 11, 13, 20 



Wilder, U. P., lecture by, 258, 265, 275, 286 



Wines and wine making in California, 264, 266 



Working out road taxes, 56, 57, 69 



