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Pafre. 



Agricultural College, 30, 54, 56, 231, 234 



Agricultural education, 24,30,46,54,56,68 



Agriculture and the State, 38, 42 



Agriculture of the country, 58, 162 



Agriculture, progress in, ^ .21,31,34,53 



American agriculture, 53, 58, 61, 67 



American labor, address on, 33, 36, 39, 53, 57 



Apple borer, to destroy the, 101, 102, 130 



Apple, culture of the, 10, 122, 124, 127, 129 



Ayrshire stock, qualities of, 185, 186 



Bantams, weight of, 209 



Black Spanish fowls, 208, 221, 224 



Blackberry wine, how made, 155 



Birds and their food, 95, 96 



Bones, value of as manure 119 



Brahma Pootra fowls, 208, 218, 222 



Breeds of cattle, 63, 140, 174, 185 



Butter, statements on, . . . 227, 228, 230 



Canker-worms, habits of, 97, 99, 101, 123, 127 



Cattle, feeding of, 62, 175, 180 



Cattle, improved breeds of, . . . 20, 62, 185, 192 



Caterpillars, how to destroy, 101 



Chickens, how to raise, 217, 219 



Compost heap, don't neglect the, 114,120,141 



Corn, crops of, ' 20,60,119,138,140 



Cranberry meadows, report on, 136, 138 



Currant wine, how made, 155 



Cut-worms, 102 



Dairy products, statements on, 225, 228 



Domestic wines, essay on, ; 149, 154, 158 



Drainage, effect of, 104, 108, 110, 113, 142 



Eastern States, farming of the, 60, 63, 65. 67, 76 



Education of the young, 24, 30, 40, 44, 46, 54, 56, 68 



Elderberry wine, how made, 156 



Essex Agricultural Society, history of, 2, 4, 15, 18, 23 



Farm implements, report on, 158, 162, 165, 168, 170 



Farmers a conservative class, 41, 49, 54, 71, 73 



Farms, reports on, 17, 77, 79 



