INDEX 



TO THE SECRETARY'S REPORT, 



Tage 



Agricultural College, examining committee for 1877 241 



Agricultural exhibitions, times of holding certain, changed, .... 238 



Agricultural statistics from Massachusetts census, 1875, 295 



American guano and its value, 77 



Ammoniated superphosphate and its value, 269 



Animal dust as a fertilizer, 255, 25G 



Annual poultry pi-oduct of the United States, 55, 60 



Apple orchards, should they be ploughed ? 21, 38, 39 



Apple orchards, soil and location for 17 



Apples, best varieties of, for New England orchards, . . .19, 20, 38, 42, 46 



Apples, how produced in odd years, 25, 26, 38, 39, 47, 52 



Apples, how they should be gathered and handled, 26, 29, 31 



Apples valuable as a feed for milch cows, 17, 36, 37, 46 



Apple-trees around walls not so profitable as in orchards, .... 41 



Arboriculture, importance of, to the agricultural community, .... 227, 229 



Art and agriculture, essay upon, 285, 293 



Ayrshires, and their value for the dairy, 115, 117, 128 



Bat guano 267, 268 



Best method for setting hens, 65 



Best varieties of apples, 19, 20 



Black Spanish fowls and their characteristics, 59, 82 



Board of Agriculture, country meeting of, at "Worcester, first day, ... 6 



Board of Agriculture, country meeting of, at Worcester, second day, . . 55 



Board of Agriculture, country meeting of, at Worcester, third day, . . . 142 



Board of Agriculture, country meeting of, for 1877, place of, .... 238 



Bone-meal as a fertilizer, 257 



Boneblack and its value, 258 



Brahma fowls, characteristics of, 57 



Breeding and management of poultry, 55, 70, 80, 86 



Breeding in-and-in, effect of, among ponltry, . 72, 73 



Brighton animal dust as a fertilizer, 255, 256 



Brockville superphosphates and their value 260 



Buds, essay upon, 233, 235, 237 



Butter, want of uniformity in manufacture of, 101,119,121 



Cabbages and their cultivation, 207, 209 



Cabbages, experiments with fertilizers on, 178 



Caribbean guano, 258 



Carrots and their cultivation, 197, 198, 201 



Cattle commissioners, annual report of, 213 



Chadbourne, Prof. P. A., essay by, on buds, 233, 235, 237 



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