652 INDEX. 



PAOB 



Massachusetts crops, 1897, vii 



Massachusetts weather, 1897 x 



Massachusetts weeds, essay on, by Prof. G. E. Stone 268 



Massachusetts, weeds in, distribution of 273 



Maynard, Prof. S. T., essay by, on small fruits in the home garden, . . 225 



Middlesex North Agricultural Society, returns of the, 618 



Middlesex South Agricultural Society, returns of the 619 



Milch cows, structure as relating to production, lecture on, by Dr. G. M. 



Twitchell, 23 



Milk, analyses of , . 293 



Milk, city (railroad), sources of the pollution, staleness and infection of, and 



their removal, 50 



Milk, domestic or country, concerning, . 48 



Milk, filth in and staleness of, 51 



Milk, infection in, 52, 249 



Milk, normal, what constitutes, . » 48 



Milk, village or suburban, concerning 49 



Milk cans, cleaning of, 60, 62 



Milk from a sanitary stand-point, importance to producers of the good reputa- 

 tion of, 47 



Milk of Boston, statistics of, 297 



Milk sours, why, and how the souring can be prevented or at least delayed, 



essay on, by Geo. M. Whitaker, 248 



Milk standard, concerning the, 291 



Milk supply and the public health, lecture on, by Prof. W. T. Sedgwick, . 46 



Moisture in fruit culture, 121 



Nantucket Agricultural Society, returns of the, 620 



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



Oak pruner, — life history, natural enemies, remedies, 242 



Ocneria dispar. See Gypsy moth. 



Oleomargarine laws, concerning the enforcement of, 281 



Oxford Agricultural Society, returns of the, 621 



Paige, Prof. Jas. B., essay by, on systematic feeding and watering as a pre- 

 ventative of disease in horses, 254 



Paris green ». white arsenic as an insecticide, 371 



Patrons of Husbandry, officers of, 640 



Peas, cultivation and varieties of, 77 



Plant lice, — life history, remedies, etc., 152 



Ploughing under of green crops, concerning the, 123 



Plymouth County Agricultural Society, mortgage of property of, . . . 5 



Plymouth County Agricultural Society, returns of the, 621 



Podisus, concerning the genus . 413 



Podisus, species, habits, etc., 416-438 



Podisus, species of, occurring in the United States, the, paper on, by A. H. 



Kirkland, 412 



Potash in Lepidoptera, the function of phosphate of, . . . . . . 400 



Potatoes, cultivation and varieties of, 79 



Poultry culture, advantages and disadvantages of modern methods of, lecture 



on, by Samuel Cushman, 95 



Poultry industry, statistics of the, 95 



Premium returns of the incorporated societies, 601,630 



Pruner, oak,— life history, natural enemies, remedies, 242 



Pterostichus lucublandus, concerning, 409 



