ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



149 



1867 (Part 2), 168; 1870 (Part 1), 120; 

 1890, 179. 

 American industry, agriculture and its 

 relations to (N. P. Banks), 1858 (Part 

 2), 59. 



— labor and its position (Daniel Need- 

 ham), 186S (Part 2), 33. 



— mania for large farms (Benjamin F. 

 Butler), 1870 (Part 2), 1. 



— reaping machines, trial of, in France, 

 1855 (Parti), 91. 



— robin, habits and food of the, 1865 (Part 

 1), 102, 106, 109. 



Amesbury and Salisbury Agricultural and 

 Horticultural Society, returns of the, 

 1881, 391; 1882, 394; 1883, 248; 1884, 

 274; 1885, 310; 1886, 324; 1887, 326; 

 1888, 366; 1889, 350; 1890, 348; 1891, 

 321; 1892, 317. 



Amherst, public winter meeting of the 

 Board of Agriculture at, 1868 (Part 1 ) , 17. 



Ammonia, or hartshorn, in muck, 1862 

 (Part 1), 61 ; 1868 (Part 1), 98. 



— sources and value of, as a fertilizer, 1856 

 (Part 1), 225; 1868 (Part 1), 97, 262. 



— sulphate of, analyses and value of, as a 

 fertilizer, 1873 (Part 1), 366; 1875 (Part 

 1), 328 (Part 2), 97; 1876 (Part 1), 251 ; 

 1877 (Parti), 320; 1887,708,760; 1888, 

 610; 1889 (Exp. Sta.), 270, 284; 1890 

 (Exp. Sta.), 258, 282; 1891 (Exp. Sta.), 

 306; 1892 (Exp. Sta.), 302. 



Ammoniated marl, analysis of, 1892 (Exp. 

 Sta.), 303. 



— superphosphates. {See Superphos- 

 phates.) 



Ammonite, analyses of, 1887, 709, 760; 

 1888, 610; 1889 (Exp. Sta.), 286; 1890 

 (Exp. Sta ) , 284 ; 1891 (Exp. Sta.) , 308 ; 

 1892 (Exp. Sta.), 305. 



Anaheim, California, history of commu- 

 nistic society in, 1875 (Part 1), 61. 



Ancon or otter sheep, origin of the, 1870 

 (Part 1), 39, 115. 



Andrew, Gov. John A., views of, on the 

 establishment of an agricultural college, 

 1864 (Part 1), 44, 51. 



Angora goat, characteristics of, and qual- 

 ities of wool of the, 1867 (Part 1), 77. 



Animal dust, analyses, character and 

 value of, as a fertilizer, 1873 (Part 1), 

 138, 144, 154, 358; 1874 (Part 1), 380; 

 1875 (Part 1), 323; 1876 (Part 1), 255; 

 1877 (Part 1), 321. 



— fat, production of, 1861 (Part 1),38, 94. 



— growth and nutrition (Prof. J. W. San- 

 born), 1881, 218. 



— Industry, Bureau of, the, 1887, 218. 



Animal life, climate on, effect of, 1854 

 (Part 1 ) , 80 ; 1 863 ( Part 1 ) , 58. 



defined, affinity in, 1866 (Part 1), 76. 



salt as a promoter of, 1869 (Part 1), 



31. 



— nutrition, study of the problems of, 1892, 

 380. 



— pure bred, what constitutes a, 1875 (Part 

 1), 345. 



— to the vegetable kingdom, adaptation 

 of the, 1865 (Part 1), 140. 



Animals, acclimatization of, 1854 (Part 

 1), 81. 



— age of, for breeding purposes, 1866 

 (Parti), 81, 115; 1889, 154. 



— and plants, variation in, 1891, 22. 

 similarity of functions of, 1856 (Part 



2), 47; 1858 (Part 2), 70; 1865 (Part 1), 

 141; 1869 (Part 2), 35. 



— breed differences in, 1867 (Part 1), 21 ; 

 1873 (Part 1), 251. 



— breeding of, concerning the, 1863 (Part 

 1),56; 1866 (Parti), 115; 1867 (Parti), 

 23; 1873 (Parti), 251. 



— constitution in, concerning, 1890, 80. 



— destruction of, the humane (Prof. D. 

 D. Slade), 1873 (Part 1), 234. 



— diseases of, discussion on, 1865 (Part 

 1), 69. 



— digestion and winter feeding of, the 

 (Dr. George A. Bowen), 1881, 29. 



— farmer's liability for his, the, 1878 (Part 

 1), 165. 



— feeding of, concerning the, 1867 (Part 1) 

 25; 1878 (Parti), 54; 1879 (Part 1), 222; 

 1881, 42, 218; 1889, 102, 224; 1892, 18. 



— inoculation of, concerning the, 1883, 16 ; 

 1887, 209. 



— instinct of, concerning the, 1874 (Part 

 1),397. 



— intended for slaughter or kept for the 

 production of milk, duties of inspectors 

 of, 1892, 451. 



— list of, extinct in Massachusetts, 1861 

 (Parti), 192. 



— mental faculties of domestic (Chad- 

 bourne, Trof. P. A.), 1874 (Part 1), 

 395. 



(Vincent, Hebron), 1875 (Part 1), 



283. 



— of Massachusetts (E. A. Samuels), 

 1861 (Part 1), 137. 



— selection of, for breeding purposes, 1866 

 (Part 1),95; 1867 (Part 1), 23, 30. 



— stomachs of, concerning the, 1881, 35. 



— structure and growth of domesticated, 

 the (Prof. Louis Agassiz), 1872 (Part 

 1), 291; 1873 (Part 1), 222- 



