INDEX. 



209 



Harwood, . 



Dairy situation, the, ...... 



Dairy statistics, ....... 



Dairying, encouragement of, expenses of, 



contests, report on, by^P. M, 

 Disease of adult bees. 



Diseases found on imported nursery stock, 

 Dog Law Commission, the. 

 Draft, selective, effect of, on farm labor, 

 regulations, effect on agriculture, 

 Drainage, the Joint Board, 



Eastern States Exposition, awards at, 

 Eggs, importation of, from China, . 

 Exhibitions and contests held in 1917, 

 Exhibits of Dairy Bureau, concerning. 

 Exposition, Eastern States Agricultural and Industrial, Massachusetts 

 Building at, ... . 



' and Girls' Club 



increasmg, 



work by. 



Inspector by. 



Fairs, the agricultural, . 



effect of anti-aid amendment on, 

 Farley, George L., annual report on Boys 

 Farm labor, classification of, in draft, 



effect of draft on, 

 Farmers' Institute speakers, demand for, 

 Farmers' Institutes, relating to. 

 Feeding value of sunflowers, . 



Fernald, H. T., resignation of, as State Nursery Inspector, 

 report, sixteenth annual, of State Nursery 

 Fertilizer, advance in price of, . . . 



use of mill waste as, . . . 



use of peat as, ... . 



use of sewage as, . 

 Flea beetles, damage by, to potatoes and tomatoes. 

 Food conservation, ..... 



Food production committee of the Public Safety Committee, membership of 

 Forbush, E. H., report, tenth annual, of State Ornithologist by, 

 Frost, damage by, to the cranberry crop, ..... 



Gates, B. N., report, eighth annual, of State Inspector of Apiaries by. 

 Grain-growing in Massachusetts, ....... 



Gypsy and brown-tail caterpillars, destruction of, by starlings, . 



Harwood, P. M., report, twenty-sev 

 Heath hen, decrease of, at Martha' 

 Heifer contest, grade, the. 

 Herbs, cultivation of. 

 Home garden work, prizes for. 

 Honey extractors, concerning, 

 the 1917 market for, . 



Insect depredations, relating to. 

 Insect eating birds, destruction of, 

 Insects found on imported nursery stock. 

 Institutes, Farmers', concerning. 



enth annual, of the Dairj- Bureau by. 

 Vineyard, 



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