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Gravelly soils best for fowls, 75 



Ground bones as a fertilizer, 257, 258 



Guanos and their value, 259, 260, 261, 265 



Hadwcn, 0. B., address by 7, 10, 13 



Hadwen, 0. B., report by, 227, 229 



Habits of the Colorado beetle, 90, 91 



Hand-picking the Colorado beetle efficacious, 96, 97 



Hamburg fowls and their characteristics, 58, 59, 84 



Hens, period in which they are profitable layers, 84 



Hens, the best method of setting 65 



High prices for poultry, 67 



Horn-waste as a fertilizer, 254 



Houdan fowls and their value, 59 



Household conveniences should be cared for, 135 



How to breed improved varieties of fowls, 68, 70 



How to feed young chickens, 79, 80 



How to grow good potatoes, 188, 189 



How to train and prune orchard trees, 23, 24, 44, 45 



Hubbard squash and its cultivation 209 



Influence of the sire in poultry-breeding, 68,74 



Improvement of salt-marshes, report on 219, 223, 225 



Isolated apple-trees not so profitable as those in orchards, .... 41 



Jerseys, and their value for the dairy, 117, 129 



June the best month to prune apple-trees in, 24, 25 



Leghorn fowls and their characteristics, 57, 70, 71, 75, 83 



Mangolds, cultivation and yield of, 206, 207 



Mangolds, experiments with fertilizers in cultivating, 176, 177 



Manures and chemical fertilizers, 77, 142, 156, 170, 184 



Manures for apple orchards, 19, 21, 43 



Marrow squashes and their cultivation, 209 



Massachusetts, desirable breeds of cows for, 110,111 



Migration eastward of the Colorado beetle, history of, 88, 89 



Milch cows, and how they should be fed, 113,114 



Milch cows, value of apples as food for 17,36,37 



Milk-supply, growth of the 105, 106 



Mitchell, Donald G., lecture by, 131,139 



Muriate of potash, analysis of, 245 



Native cows and their utility, 127 



Needs of the Massachusetts dairy farmer, lecture on, .... 98,100,115 



Nitrate of soda, analysis of, 252 



Nitrogen necessary to plant-life, 143, 149 



Odd years, how apples are produced in, 25, 38, 47, 48, 52 



Onion-maggot, habits of the, and remedy against 195 



Onions and their cultivation, 189, 191, 193 



Orchards, and their management, 13, 20, 28, 39, 44, 46 



Organic matter in salt marshes, 225 



Packard, A. S., Jr., essay by, on the Colorado beetle, .... 86, 90, 94 



Pasture land, experiments with chemical fertilizers upon 178, 179 



Pears and pear-growing, 32, 33, 50, 51 



