264: 



AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



(Part 2), 147; 1869 (Part 2), 131; 1870 

 (Part 1), 229, 23(3; 1871 (Part 2), 245; 

 1872 (Part 2), 139; 1873 (Part 2), 91; 

 1874 (Part 1), 110 (Part 2), 79; 1875 

 (Part 2), 160; 1876 (Part 2), 113; 1879 

 (Part 2), 53; 1880 (Part 1), 13. 



Root crops, experiments in feeding, 1859 

 (Part 1), 110. 



experiments with, at Agricultural 



Experiment Station, 18S7, 696; 1888, 

 545, 553. 



— - and their cultivation (O. B. Had- 

 wen), 1871 (Part 1), 110. 



in Great Britain, 1853 (Part 1), 37; 



1859 (Parti), 112. 



— culture (E. A. Samuels), 1865 (Part 

 2), 82. 



vegetable gardening and (B. P. 



Ware), 1876 (Part 1), 185. 



— cutter, Excelsior, description of the, 

 1867 (Part 1), 299. 



— pruning, effect of, 1875 (Part 1), 43; 

 1889, 22. 



Roots and leaves, structure and functions 

 of, 1873 (Part 1), 167, 174; 1874 (Part 

 1), 209; 1875 (Part 1), 42, 156. 



— and vegetables, tools for cultivating, and 

 quantity of seed to an acre, 1870 (Part 

 1), 235. 



field culture of (J. J. H. Gregory), 



1870 (Part 1),229. 



— as food for animals, 1855 (Part 2), 371 ; 



1860 (Part 1), 140, 145; 1871 (Part 1), 

 266; 1872 (Part 2), 131; 1876 (Part 2), 

 50. 



for man, 1860 (Part 1), 141. 



— fodder analyses of, 1887, 743. 



— harvesting and storing of, methods of, 

 1859 (Part 1), 113; 1860 (Part 1), 145 

 1865 (Part 2), 84; 1870 (Part 1), 237 



1871 (Part 2), 245; 1873 (Part 2), 37 

 1874 (Part 1), 110; 1877 (Part 1), 30 

 1884, 95. 



— lifting power of, 1874 (Part 1), 222. 



— manure for, and its application, 1859 

 (Part 1), 110; 1870 (Part 1), 231, 233; 

 1876 (Part 2), 113. 



— nutritive value of, 1853 (Part 1), 34; 

 1874 (Part 1), 110; 1879 (Part 2), 59. 



(H. E. Stockbridge), 1879 (Part 2), 



59. 



— of Timothy grass, characteristics of, 

 1856 (Part 1), 172. 



length of, 1869 (Part 1), 115, 125, 160. 



— preparation of land for, 1865 (Part 2), 

 83; 1870 (Parti), 231. 



— production of, cost of, 1870 (Part 1), 

 240. 



Roots, seed of, sowing, 1870 (Part 1),234. 



— soil for, 1870 (Part 1), 230; 1873 (Part 

 2), 104. 



— structure of, 1873 (Part 1), 166. 



Rose bugs, habits and destruction of, 1873 



(Part 1),304; 1878 (Part 1),218; 1883, 



312; 1884,258,341; 1887,32. 

 death to, analyses of, 1890 (Exp. 



Sta.),275; 1891 (Exp Sta.),339; 1892 



(Exp. Sta.),336. 



— leaf thrips, habits and destruction of 

 the, 1885, 195. 



— slugs, destruction of, 1884, 342. 

 Rot, dry, concerning, 1872 (Part 1), 60. 

 Rotation of crops. (See Crops ) 

 Rothamsted, England, description of ex- 

 periments at, 1863 (Part 1), 294. 



Round, Daniel, report by, on the army 

 worm, 1882, 336. 



Rowen or aftermath, analyses of, 1886, 

 480; 1887, 643, 750; 1888, 457, 496, 

 632; 1889 (Exp. Sta ), 35, 293, 298; 

 1890 (Exp. Sta.), 36, 291, 296; 1891 

 (Exp. Sta.), 58, 99, 147, 315, 322; 1892 

 (Exp. Sta.), 36, 47, 128, 208, 311, 319. 



— ensilage from, analysis of, 18S7, 738. 



— fall feeding of, utility of, 1856 (Part 1), 

 209, 211 ; 1S68 (Part 1), 219 ; 1869 (Part 

 1), 86, 166; 1872 (Part 2), 131; 1873 

 (Parti), 211. 



Rowland, Rev. L. S., address by, on the 

 social and intellectual life of the farmer, 

 1880 (Part 2), 110. 



Rowley, J. H., essay by, on agricultural 

 societies and their management, 1889, 

 287. 



Royal English horse and cattle condi- 

 ment, analysis of, 1890 (Exp. Sta), 132. 



Ruminantia, characteristics of the, 1861 

 (Part 1), 138. 



Rural population of Massachusetts, why 

 it has decreased, 1869 (Part 2), 85. 



— pursuits, advantages of (Benjamin F. 

 Thomas), 1862 (Part 2), 46. 



— - importance, progress and influence 

 of, the (Marshall P. Wilder), 1873 (Part 

 1),98. 



increasing taste for, 1854 (Parti), 



162. 

 Rush salt grass, characteristics of, 1856 



(Part 1), 38. 

 Rushes, list of grass like, 1856 (Part 1), 



110. 

 Russell, John E., election of, as secretary 



of the Board of Agriculture, 1880 (Part 



1), 17. 



lecture by, on the agriculture of the 



Nile valley, 1890, 163. 



