INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 459 



Nutritive value of an article of food, 120. 



No-fence laws, 207. 



Newly-elected members, 324. 



Nantucket cattle show, report on, by Hon. James S. Grinnell, 419. 



Officers of the societies for 1883, 399. 



Practical points in l)rceding fowls, 177. 



Pullets, how to ftitten, 192. 



Percheron horses, 299. 



Petition to the Board for a hearing on the Sorghum question, 325. 



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



Peach trees, experiments with, 410. 



Petition of the Board to the legislature to increase the salary of the Secretary, 32(5. 



Report of committees on the time and place of holding the next country meeting, 326. 



on experiment station, 405. 



on the cattle show at Nantucket, by the Hon. James 8. Grinnell, 419. 

 Report on the army worm, paper by Daniel Round, 321. 



annual, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 445. 

 Repairs made on college buildings during 1882, 453. 

 Raw wool, analysis of, 408. 

 Raising and selecting garden seeds, paper on, by 0. B. Had wen, 329. 



State Board meeting at Amherst, 9. 



country meeting of, at Northampton, 9. 

 Smith, J. M., of Sunderland, paper by, on tobacco and its culture in the Connecticut 



Valley, 136. 

 Smith, Henry M., of Worcester, paper by, on barb wire and the fence (piestion, 196. 

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

 State Board of Agriculture, annual meeting of, 309. 

 Strawberries, experiment with, 438. 



The milk question, paper on, by Henry E. Alvord, 17. 

 Tables of percentage of food materials, 106. 



of feeding experiments, 125. 

 Tobacco and its culture in the Connecticut Valley, paper on, by J. M. Smith, 136. 



discussion of, 160. 

 The fence in America, 201. 



Tenth annual repoit on conmicrcial fertilizers, by Prof. C. A. Goessmann, 345. 

 Time and place for holding fairs, 402. 



Use of ground leather refuse in fertilizers as a source of nitrogen is a fraud, 359. 



Value of a i)rotection tariff to the farmer, essay on, by Joseph Story Fay, 310. 



Weld, Mason C, of New York, paper by, on fowls for the table and market, 172. 

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



