458 INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Experiments with nou-nitrogcnous substances, sugar, starch, etc., Oo. 



in feeding, tables of, 12o. 



with grape-vines, 435. 



with strawberries, 438. 



with peach trees, 440. 

 English experience in breeding fowls, 179. 

 English fence-system, 199. 

 Executive coniinittec, names of, 327. 

 Experiment station, report on, 405. 

 Eel grass, analysis of, 407. 



Experiment station, list of proposed experiments, 415. 

 Educational plan of the Agricultural College, 452. 

 Essay on the silo and ensilage, by Benjamin P. Ware, 382. 



Feeding for butter, discussion of, 52. 



From grain to ear, lecture by Dr. Byron D. Kalsted, 6i. 



Food, mineral constituents of, 101. 



materials, table of percentage, 106. 



nutritive value of, 120. 

 Fowls for the table and market, papc r on, by Mason C. Weld, 172. 

 Fall chickens, 183. 

 Fattening of fowls, 185 

 Forest fires, paper on, by Prof. C. S. Sargent, 271. 



discussion of, 280. 

 Fay, Joseph Story, essay by, on the value of a protective taritf to the farmer, 310. 

 Finances of the societies, 394. , 

 Fertilizers, composition of some, 382. ' 



Goessmann, Prof. C. A., paper by, on mineral constituents of plant growth, 430. 



on the influences of chemistry, 89. 

 Grading and crossing of fowls, 17fi. 



Grinnell, Hon. James S., paper by, on agricultural machinery and implements, 231. 

 Ground leather as a source of nitrogen in fertilizers is a fraud, 3."i9. 

 Grape-vines, experiments with, 435. 



Halsted, Ur. Byron D., lecture by, on from grain to car, 64. 



Hybrids, a discussion on, 82. 



How to fatten young fowls, 18.5. 



Horses, breeding of, 294. 



Horses, Percheron, 299. 



Hadwin, O. B., paper by, on raising and selecting fields and garden-seeds, -329. 



Influence of chemistry on a rational system of stock-feeding, paper on, by Prof. C. 

 A. Goessman, 89. 



Killing and picking of fowls, 189. 



Laws of breeding for fowls, 174. 



List of proposed experiments at experiment station, 415. 



Meeting of the State Board at Amherst, 9. 

 Milk, shall it be sold, 19. 



how shall it be sold, 28. 



if not sold, what shall be done with 38. 

 Mineral constituents of food, 101. 

 Marl, analysis of, 408. 



