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Discussion of the labor question, widely spread, 18, 19 



Drainage in roads, importance of, 217, 273, 285 



Drains and culverts in roads, 217, 273, 275, 285, 286 



Early cattle shows in Berkshire County, 63, 64 



Earths, cost of moving different, 213, 214, 243 



Eggs and poultry, annual production of, 192 



Essex County, crops in, in former years, 78 



Experience of a practical farmer, 1, 10, 16 



Experiments in roads and transportation, 245, 261 



Fancy farmers, 104 



Farmer's conflict, address on, 76-82 



Farming in Essex County, does it paj', 8, 9 



Farm implements, report on, . . . 168, 169 



Farm labor, why there can be no strike in, 20 



Farms, reports on, 92, 93, 97, 102 



Fat oxen, report on, 168, 169 



Fertilizers, artificial, are not always reliable, 109, 110 



Fisher, Jabez, report by, 150-154 



Foundation roads, 221 



Fruit-growing is an art, 151 



Fruits, reports on, 146, 148, 150 



Game fowls, value of, 190 



Gladden, Rev. W., address by, 45, 50, 54 



Good farming is not niggardly, 99 



Goodman, K., address by, 63, 70, 75 169, 173 



Grades, report on, 164 



Grades on roads, 209, 268, 288, 290 



Grafts exert an influence on the parent stock, 5 



Graham, E., report by, 156-160 



Grape culture, profits in, 114, 117, 118, 123 



Grape-vine, yield of a single, 114 



Grape, management of the, 117, 119, 122, 147 



Grapes will grow on almost any soil, 114 



Grain crops, statements on, 126, 127 



Grass, proper time for cutting, 37, 38 



Green crops as fertilizers, 143, 144 



Gregory, J. J. H., report by, 135, 138, 140, 143 



Herds of cattle, reports on, 161-164 



Highway commissioners, board of, recommended, 279 



Horse-racing at fairs, 60, 61 



Howard, James, statement of, 129, 130 



Importance of study in agriculture, 47, 48 



Improvement and repair of roads, 298 



Improvement of meadows and swamp lands, statement on, 106 



Indian corn, statements on, 127, 128 



Influence of agricultural fairs, 56, 57, 62 



Insects injurious to field crops, method for extirpating, 9 



Jerseys and their value, 170, 171, 172, 175, 176, 179, 181 



Jerseys, number of, in the United ^tates, 179, 180 



