INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Annual meeting of tbe State Board of Agriculture, 309. 

 Alvord, Henry E., lecture hy, on tbe milk question, 17. 

 Agricultural machinery and implements, paper on, by Hon. Jas. S. Grinnell, 231. 



discussion of the subject, 'io.'). 

 Annual report of the cattle commissioners, 307. 



on commercial fertilizers, by Prof. C. A. Goessmann, 345. 

 Analysis of premiums awarded !)y the societies, 398. 

 Agricultural exhibitions for 1883, 402. 

 Army worm, report on, by Daniel Hound, 336. 

 Annual report of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 445. 



Barb wire and the fence question, paper on, by Henry M. Smith, 196. 



in use, 214. 



fences, discussion of, 217- 

 Breeding of horses, 294. 



Country meeting. State Board, at Northampton, 9. 



Chadbourne, Hon. Paul A., address of, before the State Board of Agriculture at 



Northampton, 10. 

 Corn, from grain to ear, paper on, by Dr. Byron D. Halsted, 64. 

 Cultivation of tobacco, shall glass be used, 143. 

 Capons, 191. 

 Cost of fences, 197. 



Cattle commissioners, annual report, 307. 

 Changes in time for holding fairs, 325. 

 Country meeting, where held next year, 326. 

 Committee on credentials, 324. 

 on printing, 326. 

 on assignment of delegates, 327. 

 Commercial fertilizers. New York and Boston market, price of, for 1882, 346. 

 Commerciol fertilizers, annual report of, 345. 

 Chemically prepared leather refuse used in some fertilizers, 358. 

 Corn ensilage, analysis of, 411. 

 Composition of some compounds in fertilizers, 382 



Discussion on feeding for butter, 52. 

 on hybrids, 82. 



on tobacco and its culture, 160. 

 on barb wire fences, 217. 

 on forest fires, 280. 



