546 INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Evaporation, 179. 



Experiments in potato culture, lecture by Edmund Hersey,H10. 



Experiment stations, their value, 94. 



Fairs to be held, 332. 



Farming specialties, discussion of, 104. 



Fattening beef, 60. 



Finances of the societies, 325. 



Fruit as a farm product, paper on, by E. W. Wood, 412. 



Gleason, Hon. Chas. A., opening address at Barre, 33. 

 Goddard, J. H., lecture by, on corn culture, 268. 



Hatch bill, approved of by State Board, 96. 



Hersey, Edmund, lecture by, on experiments in potato culture, 110. 



Hog cholera, 398. 



Holstein cattle in America, lecture by Gerrit S. Miller, 37. 



Homoeopathy in agriculture, lecture on, by W. H. Bowker, 191. 



Horses, Percheron, 97. 



Influence of agriculture on climate, lecture on, by M. W. Bartlett, 173. 



Lynde, Dr. Jas. P., report on the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 for 1886, 402. 



Meeting, annual. State Board of Agriculture, 311. 



Miller, Gerrit S., lecture by, on Holstein cattle in America, 37. 



Officers of the agricultural societies, 329. 

 Opening address, country meeting at Barre, 33. 



Percheron horses, 97. 



Potato culture, lecture on, by Edmund Hersey, 110. 



Powers and duties of the board of overseers of the Agricultural College 



defined, 318. 

 Progressive agriculture, lecture on, by Ethan Brooks, 222. 



Reclaiming land, lecture on, by F. H. Appleton, 119. 



Remarks of Henry W. Wilson at country meeting, 105. 



Report on the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for 1886, by Dr. 



Jas. P. Lynde, 402. 

 Resolutions of respect to the memory of Marshall P. Wilder, 316. 

 Resolutions passed by the State Board relative to the Hatch bill, 96. 



Sears, Philander S., paper by, on corn, 407. 



Sheep husbandry, lecture on, by E F. Bowditch of Framingham, 150. 

 Slade, Avery P., lecture by, on specialties in farming, 86. 

 Special meeting at Barre of Board of Agriculture and Cattle Commis- 

 sioners, 3. 



