INDEX. 649 



PAOE 



Cranberry fruit worm, description, life history, remedies, etc., .... 148 



Cranberry industry, statistics of the, 144 



Crops, green, ploughing under, advantages of, ...... . 123 



Crops of 1897, concerning the, vii 



Crop Reports, Massachusetts, bulletins of the Board of Agriculture published 



in the 225 



Cranberry span worm, — description, life history, remedies, etc., . . . 149 



Cranberry vine worm, —description, life history, remedies, etc 145 



Cranberry and other fruits, insects injurious to the, lecture on, by Prof. C. H. 



Fernald, 144 



Cushman, Samuel, lect-ure by, on advantages and disadvantages of modern 



methods of poultry culture, 95 



Dairy Bureau, financial statement of the, . . . . . . . . 303 



Dairy Bureau, officers and members of the, ...... 280, 634 



Dairy Bureau, seventh annual report of the, 281 



Dairy laws of other States, 288, 300 



Deerfield Valley Agricultural Society, returns of the, 605 



Directory of agricultural and similar organizations, 633 



Eastern Hampden Agricultural Society, returns of the, 606 



Education, agricultural, value of, 90 



Elm bark louse, — food plants, damage done by, remedies, etc 244 



Essex Agricultural Society, returns of the, 607 



Executive committee of the Board of Agriculture, minutes of meetings of, . 3 



Exhibitions, agricultural, dates of, and assignment of inspectors to, . . 182 



Experiment Station, Hatch, concerning the work of the, 186 



Experiment Station, Hatch, officers of 635 



Experiments and station work, report of committee on 195 



Fairs, dates of, and assignment of inspectors to 182 



Farm, irrigation on our, paper on, by Richard Hittinger, 141 



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



Farmers' clubs, officers of, 638 



Farmers' institutes, concerning, xxv, 215, 601 



Farmers' institutes, essay on, by F. W. Sargent, 215 



Farmers' National Congress, report of the delegates to the, at St. Paul, by 



R. G. F. Candage 585 



Farmers' National Congress, resolution of the Board of Agriculture regarding 



the 179 



Farmers' and mechanics' associations and clubs, officers of, ... . 637 



Farms, abandoned, concerning, xxiii 



Feed stuffs, concerning concentrated commercial, xxii, 3 



Fernald, Prof. C. H., lecture by, on insects injurious to the cranberry and 



other fruits 144 



Fernald, Prof. C. H., paper by, on arsenate of load as an insecticide, . . 353 



Fernald, Prof. C. H., report by, as entomologist of the gypsy moth committee, 317 



Financial returns of the incorporated societies, 601,630 



Fish, Mayor N. J. "W., address by, before the Board of Agriculture, at 



Taunton, 19 



Forbush, E. H., report by, as field director, gypsy moth work, . . . 321 



Fowler, F. H., report by, as librarian and curator, 197 



Fowls, breeds of, characteristics of certain, 100, 107, 110 



Fowls, diseases of, concerning, 105 



Franklin County Agricultural Society, mortgage of property of, . . . 3 



Franklin County Agricultural Society, returns of the, 608 



