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Change in the market for vegetables within a few years, 187 



Cheever, A. W., lecture by, 98,105,115 



Chemical fertilizers and their value, . 142, 153, 158, 162, 170, 174, 180, 182, 241, 256 



Chickens, how to feed 79, 80 



Chili saltpetre, analysis of, ■ 252 



City milk 105,-106,107,109 



Cleanliness essential in poultry husbandry, 60, 61 



Cochin fowls and their value, 60 



Colonies of fowls 63, 64 



Colorado beetle, enemies of, 92 



Colorado beetle in Massachusetts, 86, 90, 94, 95 



Colorado beetle, habits of, 90, 91 



Colorado beetle, history of its migrations, 88,89 



Colorado beetle, remedies against the ravages of the, . . 92, 93, 96, 151, 293, 295 



Concrete houses, value of, 132 



Confines of the dairy section, • . . 122 



Corkiness in turnips, how to prevent, 203 



Corn, yield of, and cost of raising per bushel, . . . 156,158,160,171,178,183 



Crookneck squash, little demand for, 211 



Cross-fertilization, influence of, 235 



Dairy cows, and how they should be fed, 113, 114, 123 



Dairy farming and its importance, . . . . . 103,105,112,116,117 



Dairy products and their management, 102,110,116,120,123 



Dairy work, how it should be done, 102, 119, 123 



Danvers onion, qualities of, 189 



Delegates to exhibitions in 1877, appointment of, 239 



Dominique fowls and their characteristics, 59 



Dorkings and their value, 85 



Drought of 1876 and its influence on crops, 146, 148 



Dwight D., essay by, .... 215, 218 



Essays, subjects for, in 1877, 240 



Examining committee of the Agricultural College for 1877, .... 241 



Exhibitions in 1877, appointment of delegates to, 239 



Experimental station desirable in Massachusetts, 165, 166 



Experiments with commercial fertilizers, .... 148, 151, 153, 168, 171, 174 



Farmer's homestead, relation of the, to farm thrift, 131,142 



Felch, I. K., lecture by, upon poultry husbandry, 55, 65, 70 



Fertilizers, their value and application, . . 148, 151, 162, 170, 174, 182, 241, 256 



Fertilizer from ashes of hulls of cotton-seeds 248 



Fertilizers, potash, 244, 246 



Fertilizers, report of Prof. C. A. Goessmann upon, . . .241,250,256,260,279 



Fisb guano, value of, 279 



Food for poultry should be of a varied character, 62, 63, 78 



Fotler early drumhead cabbage, history of, 208 



Fowls, how to breed improved varieties of, 68, 69, 70 



Fowls need a gravelly soil, 75 



Fruits and fruit-culture 13, 20, 28, 35, 40, 45, 50, 53 



Fruit, how it should be gathered and kept, 26, 27, 28, 31 



Fruit-cellars, and how they should be managed, 27 



Game fowls and their characteristics, 81 



Goessmann, Prof. C. A., report on fertilizers by, . . . 241, 250, 256, 260, 279 



Goessmann, Prof. C. A., report on salt-marshes by 219,223,225 



Gold, T. S., lecture by 13, 20, 28 



