204 INDEX TO THE REPORT. 



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Pear orchards, utility of manuring, 50 



Peruvian guano, 260,261 



Plant-nutrition, principles of, 145, 146, 147 



Ploughing of orchards, is it injurious ? 21, 39 



Plymouth Rock fowls, value and characteristics of, 57 



Potash fertilizers and their value, 244, 246 



Potatoes, experiments with fertilizers in cultivating, 174, 175 



Potatoes, how to grow, 188, 189 



Poultry, breeding and management of, 55, 70, 80, 86 



Poultry-house, plan for the construction of, 61,62,63,76 



Poultry manure pays the cost of feed for fowls, 76, 77 



Profits of poultry -keeping 56,57,76,77 



Public meeting of the Board in 1877, place of, 238 



Rectified Peruvian guano and its value, 261 



Remedies against the ravages of the Colorado beetle, 92, 93 



Roup and its contagiousness, 86 



Salt-marshes adapted to pear-growing, 50, 52 



Salt-marshes, report on the improvement of, 219, 223, 225 



Saltpetre-waste as a fertilizer, 249 



Salt valuable as a fertilizer for onions, 197 



Sea-fowl guano, 270 



Size and conduct of farms in Massachusetts, essay upon, 215, 218 



Spring the best season for planting apple-trees in, 20 



Squash-bugs, how to destroy, 210 



Squash-houses, 211 



Squashes and their cultivation, 209, 210, 211 



Soil of salt-marshes, character of, 223 



Statistics from Massachusetts census for 1875, 295 



Stockbridge fertilizers and their value, 145, 156, 159 



Stockbridge, Prof. Levi, lecture by 142, 148, 152 



Stone houses, economy of 133 



Stone-Mason cabbage, origin of, 207, 208 



Subjects for essays in 1877, 240 



Sulphate of ammonia, analysis of, 251 



Transplanting forest trees, best time for 231 



Treatment of Peruvian guano, 263 



Trees from sprouts not desirable, 35 



Turban squashes and their value, 209 



Turnips, and how to grow them 202, 203, 205 



Vegetable-gardening and root-culture, 185, 200, 213 



Vegetable market has changed, 186, 187 



Vermin on poultry, how destroyed, 66, 79 



Vicar of Winkfield pear, characteristics of, 16 



Vincent, Hebron, essay by, 285, 293 



Ward's fertilizer of little value, 250, 251 



Ware, Benjamin P., lecture by, 185, 200, 213 



Warm water best for cows in winter 125 



Western fruit-trees undesirable for New England orchards, ... 34, 35, 51 



Wool-waste as a fertilizer, 253 



Worcester, exhibition at, in connection with the meeting of the Board, . . 281 



Yield of corn in various experiments, . . . 156, 158, 160, 171, 177, 178, 183 



Yield of mangolds to the acre, 206 



Yield and cultivation of onions, 197 



