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AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Potato beetle, spread of the, in Massa- 

 chusetts, 1876 (Part 1), 89 (Part 2), 

 3."). 



— blight, characteristics of, 1869 (Part 2), 

 11. " 



— bulblets, Chinese, concerning, 1891 

 (Exp. Sta.), 191. 



— Chinese, or yam, value of, as an escu- 

 lent, 1856 (Part 2), 427; 1857 (Part 2), 

 nc. 



— crop, report on the (Alexander Hyde), 

 1868 (Part 1), 312. 



— cultivation of the, yields and profits, 

 1853 (Part 2), 207; 1854 (Part 1), 21 

 (Part 2), 206, 217; 1855 (Part 2), 34, 

 102; 1856 (Part 2), 280; 1857 (Part 

 2), 144, 237, 332; 1858 (Part 1), 19 

 (Part 2), 234; 1859 (Part 2), 174, 185; 

 1860 (Part 2), 169, 176; 1862 (Part 2), 

 75, 103, 115; 1865 (Part 2), 74; 1866 

 (Part 1), 170 (Part 2), 2, 56,72; 1867 

 (Part 2), 127; 1868 (Part 1), 325; 1869 

 (Part 2), 131; 1870 (Part 2), 159, 165; 

 1871 (Part 1), 90, 147 (Part 2), 245, 

 253; 1873 (Part 1), 20, 45, 175, 315 

 (Part 2), 91, 100; 1874 (Part 2), 86; 

 1875 (Part 1), 126 (Part 2), 163; 1876 

 (Part 1), 187 (Part 2), 37, 119, 128; 

 1878 (Part 1), 21; 1879 (Part 2), 57; 

 1880 (Part 1), 12, 205 (Part 2), 64; 

 1885, 10, 25, 32; 1886, 110; 1S89, 71; 

 1890 (Exp. Sta.), 189; 1891 (Exp. 

 Sta.), 196; 1892, 117 (Exp. Sta.), 188. 



— culture (Edmund Hersey), 1885, 10. 

 experiments in (Delano, Jesse L.), 



1880 (Part 2), 64. 



(Hersey, Edmund), 1886, 110. 



(Ware, B. P.), 1880 (Part 1), 205. 



— - importance of plaster in, 1875 (Part 

 1), 123. 



statistics of, 1853 (Part 1), 32; 1868 



(Part 1), 313 ; 1873 (Part 1), 46; 1881, 

 37 1 ; 1890, xvi. 



— digger, Allen's, description and use of, 

 1871 (Part 2), 246. 



— digging and storing the, 1868 (Part 1), 

 329. 



— disease, plan for investigating the (Wil- 

 son Flagg), 1859 (Part 2), 280. 



— diseases of the, 1853 (Part 1), 33 (Part 

 2), 217; 1854 (Parti), 56; 1857 (Parti), 

 227 ( Part 2) , 145, 349 ; 1 858 (Part 1 ) , 33 ; 

 1859 (Part 1), 54 (Part 2), 280; 1860 

 (Part 1), 136; 1869 (Part 2), 11; 1875 

 (Part 1), 120, 135; 1877 (Part 1), 37, 

 41. 



— exhibit from Houghton farm, descrip- 

 tion of, 1885, 25. 



Potato, habitat of the, 1853 (Part 2), 

 209; 1876 (Part 2), 38. 



— history of the, 1853 (Part 2), 208; 1868 

 (Part 1), 314. 



— insects attacking the, 1857 (Part 1), 199 ; 



1875 (Part 1), 122, 131. 



— murrain, concerning, 1875 (Part 2), 

 25. 



— nutritive value of the, 1853 (Part 1), 35 

 (Part 2), 211 ; 1868 (Part 1), 313. 



— planting of the, 1853 (Part 1), 215. 

 in swamps, 1853 (Part 2), 46; 1854 



(Part 1), 63. 



— productiveness of the, 1868 (Part 1), 

 319. 



— qualities of the, 186S (Part 1), 314, 

 317. 



— Rose, early, analysis of the, 1880 (Part 

 1), 15. 



— rot, description of the, 1853 (Part 1), 33 

 (Part 2), 217; 1857 (Part 2), 144, 349; 

 1858 (Part 1), 33; 1859 (Part 1), 54 

 (Part 2), 280; 1860 (Part 1), 135; 1868 

 (Part 1), 331 ; 1877 (Part 1), 37,41; 1880 

 (Part 1),210; 1889,71 (Exp. Sta.), 226; 

 1890 (Exp. Sta.), 223. 



causes of, 1858 (Part 1), 36; 1859 



(Part 2), 281; 18S9, 73. 



history of the, 1859 (Part 2), 280. 



Reed's compound for, 1875 (Part 1), 



135. 

 report on the (Dr. J. C. Bartlett), 



1858 (Part 1), 31. 



stages of, 1858 (Part 1), 35. 



theories in relation to the, 1859 (Part 



2), 280; 1869 (Part 2), 11; 1877 (Part 



1), 41. 



— scab (Prof. J. E. Humphrey), 1888, 

 537. 



— soils adapted to the, 1868 (Part 1), 323 ; 

 1873 (Part 2), 100; 1876 (Part 2), 129. 



— solids in the, determination of, 1886, 

 499. 



— tops, analysis of, 1856 (Part 1), 229. 



— uses of the, 1853 (Part 2), 212. 



— varieties of the, 1868 (Part 1), 316, 320 ; 

 1860 (Part 1), 136; 1873 (Part 1), 314; 



1876 (Part 2), 119. 



— Vermont, characteristics of the early, 

 1873 (Part 1), 314. 



— vitality of the, decreases with age, 1868 

 (Parti), 331. 



Potatoes, early, how to get, 1853 (Part 

 2), 216. 



— experiments with, at Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, 1884, 413; 1886, 496; 

 1887, 689; 1888, 527; 1889 (Exp. Sta.), 

 175. 



