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AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Museum, agricultural, in the office of the 

 Board of Agriculture, concerning the, 

 1855 (Part 1), 95; 1858 (Part 1), 109 (Ap- 

 pendix), iii; 1860 (Part 1), 261; 1861 

 (Part 1), 137; 1863 (Part 1), 104; 1864 

 (Parti), 242; 1865 (Part 1), 331; 1866 

 (Part 1), 352. 



Muskmelon, analyses of, 1892 (Exp. 

 Sta.),333. 



Musk rat or musquash, description and 

 habits of the, 1861 (Part 1), 185. 



Mussel mud, analyses of, 1879 (Part 1), 

 339; 1887, 711, 773; 1888, 623; 1889 

 (Exp. Sta.),288; 1890 (Exp. Sta.), 286; 

 1891 (Exp Sta.), 311; 1892 (Exp. Sta.), 

 307. 



Mutton, loss of, in cooking, 1860 (Part 

 1), 97; 1891, 121. 



— the production of, profitable, 1863 (Part 

 1),68. 



— value of, as a food, 1860 (Part 1), 97; 

 1874 (Part 2), 114; 1891, 121. 



Mycelium, definition of, 1889 (Exp. Sta.) , 

 202. 



Nails for marking of shade trees along 

 highways for preservation, 1891, xviii; 

 1892, xvi. 



Nantucket Agricultural Society, reports 

 on exhibitions of, 1857 (Part 1), 274; 

 1858 (Part 1), 151; 1859 (Part 1), 202; 

 1860 (Part 1), 317; 1861 (Part 1), 261; 

 1862 (Part 1), 410; 1863 (Part 1), 332; 

 1864 (Part 1, Appendix), xliii; 1867 

 (Part 1, Appendix), xxxiii ; 1868 (Part 

 1, Appendix), xlvi ; 1870 (Part 1, Appen- 

 dix), xliv; 1871 (Part 1, Appendix), lii; 



1872 (Part 1, Appendix), xxxiii; 1873 

 (Part 1, Appendix), lii; 1874 (Part 1, 

 Appendix), xlix; 1875 (Part 1, Appen- 

 dix), xli; 1876 (Part 1, Appendix), xlii; 

 1877 (Part 1, Appendix), xlviii. 



— report on the twenty-seventh show of 

 (James S. Grinned), 1882, 419. 



— returns of the, 1,856 (Part 1, Appendix), 

 iii; 1857 (Part 1, Appendix), xxxv; 

 1858 (Parti, Appendix), cix; 1859 (Part 

 1, Appendix), xix; 1860 (Part 1, Ap- 

 pendix), iii; 1861 (Part 1, Appendix), 

 iii; 1862 (Part 1), 417; 1863 (Part 1, 

 Appendix) , iii ; 1864 (Part 1, Appendix) , 

 li; 1865 (Part 1, Appendix), xliii; 1866 

 (Part 1), 357; 1867 (Part 1, Appendix), 

 xli; 1868 (Part 1, Appendix), liii; 1869 

 (Part 1, Appendix), xlix; 1870 (Parti, 

 Appendix), liii; 1871 (Part 1, Appen- 

 dix), lix; 1872 (Part 1, Appendix), li; 



1873 (Part 1, Appendix), lix; 1874 (Part 



1, Appendix), lvii ; 1875 (Part 1, Appen- 

 dix), xlix; 1876 (Part 1, Appendix), 

 xlvii; 1877 (Part 1, Appendix), liii; 

 1878 (Part 1), 363; 1879 (Part 1), 411; 

 1880 (Parti), 251; 1881,391; 1882,395; 

 1883, 248; 1884, 274; 1885, 310; 1886, 

 324; 1887, 326; 1888, 366; 1889, 350; 

 1890, 348; 1891, 343; 1892, 338. 



Nantucket County, agriculture of, 1865 

 (Part 1),256; 1882,419. 



(James Thompson), 1865 (Part 1), 



256. 



— farms in, 1865 (Part 1), 261. 



— peat deposits in, 1865 (Part 1), 261. 



— roads of, 1870 (Part 1), 36. 



— thoroughbred stock in, 1865 (Part 1), 

 260. 



Nash, Prof. J. A., address by, on British 

 and American agriculture, 1854 (Part 2), 

 470. 



on how to be better farmers, 1857 



(Part 2), 56. 



Nash, Louis P., lecture by, on chemistry 

 on the farm, 1885, 447. 



Nash, Samuel, report by, on swine, 1853 

 (Part 2), 363. 



National industry the true source of 

 national greatness (J. S. Eldridge), 1858 

 (Part 2), 92. 



Native cattle. (See Cattle.) 



Natural selection, Darwin's views on, 

 1872 (Part 1), 98. 



Nature's mode of distributing plants 

 (Prof. W. S. Clark), 1870 (Part 1), 287. 



Navassa phosphate. (See Phosphate.) 



Neapolitan breed of swine, characteris- 

 tics of the, 1853 (Part 2), 378. 



Neat stock. (See Stock.) 



Neeuham, Daniel, address by, on Ameri- 

 can labor and its position, 1868 (Part 2), 

 33. 



on stability of agriculture, 1875 



(Part 2), 1. 



report by, on the National Farmers' 



Congress at Sedalia, Mo., 1891, 437. 



at Lincoln, Neb., 1892, 444. 



Needle-work, report on (Mrs. J. Pierce) , 

 1880 (Part 2), 42. 



Net fishing, history of, 1892, 130. 



Neuroptera, characteristics of the order, 

 1862 (Parti), 147. 



New, nothing (Samuel B. Noyes), 1871 

 (Part 2), 91. 



New England Agricultural Society, for- 

 mation of the, 1863 (Part 1), 63; 1864 

 (Parti), 247. 



New England agriculture. (See Agri- 

 culture.) 



