140 INDEX TO THE KEPORT. 



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Coal-ashes, action of, on soils 140, 142 



Colonial agriculture, restrictions on, 23, 25 



Commercial fertilizers, .... 61, 62, 63, 61, 130, 137, 143, 147, 149, 156, 157, 352, 373 

 Commercial fertilizers, law of Massachusetts in relation to, .... 130,133,137,157 

 Concentrated fertilizers, value of, ... 61, 62, 63, 64, 137, 440, 143, 149, 154, 368, 371 



Concord grapes the best to grow, 295, 308, 313 



Corn, history of, in this country, 41, 42 



Corn-meal, if eaten to excess by cows, how remedied, 258, 264 



Cotton, growth of, in United States, 47, 48 



Couch grass, how extirpated 217, 218 



Cow, points of a good 253 



Cressy, Professor Noah, lecture by, 322, 330, 336 



Crops, nitrogen in, removed from the soil 124, 125, 36T 



Cultivation of the grape 274,276,278,280,302,310 



Dairy cows, feed for, 255, 256 



Dairy interests of the country, 50,51,53 



Decomposition of animal manures, > . . . . 136, 137 



Early Vermont potato, value of, 315 



Eggs, all animals reproduced through, 225 



Eggs of different animals similar in form 225, 226 



Evergreens and deciduous trees 161, 298 



Experiments with plants, 161, 175, 179, 181, 186, 190, 205, 401, 403 



Fallowing grass-lands, practice of, 123, 207, 209, 219 



FeedinEC and breeding domestic animals, 97, 245, 250, 258, 381 



Fertilizers, commercial and agricultural, value of, . 61, 63, 112, 130, 137, 154, 157, 352, 368 



Fertilizers for the grape, 302, 303 



Fisher, Dr. Jabez, lecture by, 274, 280, 290, 302 



Fitchburg, meeting of Board at 7, 61, 98, 112, 159, 222, 234, 273, 322 



FUnt, C. L., essay by 11, 30, 64 



Flow of sap in plants, . . . ' 159, 162 



Food of plants,. 121, 124, 170, 171 



Formation of woody fibre, 164 



Frosts do not injure the grape, 295 



Fruit-culture, progress in 23, 103, 104, 105 



Fruit-culture, early history of, in United States, 22, 103 



Gapes in Poultry 33S 



Gauge for measuring pressure of sap, 18T 



Germination of seeds, 160,161 



Germ, structure of, 227 



Girdling trees and plants, results from 1'5 



Globules in milk of different breeds of animals 93, 95, 97, 276, 379, 382 



Goessmann, Professor C. A., lecture and report by, 112, 120, 125, 132, 352 



Grafted trees and their peculiarities 176, 177 



Grape-culture in America, magnitude of, 104, 310 



Grape-culture in Massachusetts, lecture on 274, 280, 290, 302, 307, 311 



Grape, manures for the 302, 303, 312 



Grape-vines, time for and manner of setting 280,281,306 



Grass-culture, history of, in this country 14,16,22,37,38,48,206,208,214 



Grass-lands, management of, discussion on 48, 205, 208, 212, 215, 222 



Growth of plants and trees, 164,166,167,171 



Guano, Peruvian and Guanape 353, 354, 356, 359 



Hay-crop in this country 16, 37, 38, 48, 256 



Home fertilizers, resources of, 112, 125, 132 



Horses in America, 6, 57, 58, 5& 



Humane modes of slaughter of domesticated animals, 235, 240, 245 



Hungarian grass, value of, for milch cows, 256 



