648 INDEX. 



PA.OB 



Apple louse, concerning the, 153 



Arsenate, di-plumbic v. tri-plumbic, as an insecticide, 386 



Arsenate of lead as an insecticide, .... 146, 162, 353, 357, 379, 390 



Arsenate of lead as an insecticide, paper on, by Prof. C. H. Fernald, . . 353 



Arsenate of lead, danger from the use of, paper on, by A. H. Kirkland, . . 390 

 Arsenate of lead : its manufacture and chemical composition, paper on, by F. 



J. Smith, 357 



Arsenic, white, Paris green i\, as an insecticide, 371 



Barium arsenate as an insecticide, concerning, 381 



Barns, cleansing and disinfecting of, 472 



Barns, ventilation of, importance of, .... ' 494 



Barnstable County Agricultural Society, returns of the, 602 



Barton, Wesley B., essay by, on opportunities of New England farmers, . 209 



Beetles, predaceous, notes on, in 1897, paper on, by A. F. Burgess, . . . 402 



Berkshire Agricultural Society, mortgage of property of, 4 



Berkshire Agricultural Society, returns of the, 602 



Blackberry, — soil, planting, varieties, diseases, etc., 237 



Blackstone Valley Agricultural Society, returns of the 603 



Borer, sugar-maple, — life history, natural enemies, remedies 238 



Boston milk and butter supply, statistics of the, 286, 297 



Brighton and Somerville, receipts of cattle at 476 



Bristol County Agricultural Society, returns of the, 604 



Brooks, Prof. Wm. P., report by, for committee on experiments and station 



work, 195 



Brown-tail moth, concerning the, xxviii, 6 



Bureau, Dairy, seventh annual report of the 281 



Burgess, A. F., paper by, on notes on predaceous beetles, 1897, . . . 402 

 Burgess, A. F., and A. H. Kirkland, paper by, on experiments with insecti- 

 cides 370 



Burlapping to destroy the gypsy moth, 323 



Butter, — receipts, exports, stocks, consumption, prices, etc, in Boston, . . 286 



Butter, " sterilized" or "process," concerning the manufacture of, . . . 289 



Calosoma, concerning various species of, 404, 406, 408 



Calves, raising of, concerning the, 43 



Candage, R. G. F., report by, on Farmers' National Congress at St. Paul, . 585 



Canker worm, remedies for the, 150 



Capital, limited, market gardening witb, lecture on, by H. W. CoUingwood, . 65 

 Cattle assessed in each town, tested, condemned as diseased, etc., . . . 456 



Cattle inspectors, list and work of 444, 475 



Cattle, private testing of, concerning the, 467 



Cattle, receipts of, at Brighton and Somerville, 476 



Cattle Commissioners, Board of, annual report of the, 443 



Cattle Commissioners, Board of, circulars and orders of the, . 454, 465, 472, 478, 



531, 547 



Cattle Commissioners, Board of, financial statement of, 461 



Cattle Commissioners, Board of, list of inspectors, cities and towns, . . 444 



Cattle Commissioners, Board of, roster of, 635 



Cattle Commissioners, Board of, work of the, 443 



Cholera hog, concerning, 552 



Clover, crimson, growing of, value, etc., 74, 82, 85, 123, 133 



College, Massachusetts Agricultural. See Agricultural College. 



CoUingwood, H. W., lecture by, on market gardening with limited capital, . 65 



Corn, sweet, — cultivation, varieties, etc., 78 



Cows, milch, structure as relating to production, lecture on, by Dr. G. M. 

 Twitchell, 23 



