INDEX. 653 



PAGB 



Rabies, concerning, 546, 559 



Raspberries, — soil, planting, cultivation, pruning, diseases, etc., . . 232-236 



Red River valley, concerning the, 592 



Resolutions of the Board of Agriculture concerning gifts of the Massachusetts 



Society for Promoting Agriculture, 181 



Resolutions of the Board of Agriculture on the death of Atkinson C. Varnum, 175 

 Resolutions of the Board of Agriculture regarding the Farmers' National 



Congress, 179 



Resolutions of the American Association of Economic Entomologists and the 



Farmers' National Congress concerning the gypsy moth 314 



Roup, causes of, cure for 105, 109 



San Jos6 scale, — habits, natural enemies, remedies, etc xxvi, 156, 160 



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



Scheele's green as an insecticide, 378 



Season of 1897, progress of the, vii 



Sedgwick, Prof. Wm. T., lecture by, on milk supply and the public health, . 46 



Shaw, N. W., opening address by, before the Board of Agriculture at Taunton, 17 

 Smith, F. J., paper by, on arsenate of lead: its manufacture and chemical 



composition, 357 



Smith, F. J., and A. H. Kirkland, paper by, on digestion in the larvee of the 



gypsy moth, 394 



Smith, M.D., Theobald, preliminary report by, upon a comparative study of 



tubercle bacilli from man (sputum) and from cattle 564 



Societies, financial and premium returns of the incorporated, . . . 601,630 



Soil in fruit culture, concerning the, 120 



Somerville and Brighton, receipts of cattle at, 476 



Spencer Farmers' and Mechanics' Association, mortgage of property of, . . 11 



Spencer Farmers' and Mechanics' Association, returns of the, .... 622 



Spraying to destroy the gypsy moth 323 



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



R. G. F. Candage 685 



Stables, concerning cleanliness of, 250 



Statistics of the milk and butter supplies of Boston, 286, 297 



Statistics of the poultry industry, 95 



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



Strawberries, — soil, planting, cultivation, varieties, etc., . . 76,128,138,225-230 



Sugar-maple borer, — life history, natural enemies, remedies, etc., . . . 238 



Taber, "Walter F., lecture by, on raising and marketing of fruit, . . .119 



Texas fever, concerning, 506 



Tomatoes, cultivation and varieties of, 79 



Tree insects, shade, three, essay on, by A. H. Kirkland, 238 



Tubercle bacilli from man(sputum) and from cattle, preliminary report upon a 



comparative study of, by Theobald Smith, M.D 564 



Tuberculosis, concerning, 443, 463, 557, 561, 564 



Twitchell, Dr. G. M., lecture by, on milch cows, structure relating to produc- 

 tion 23 



Union Agricultural and Horticultural Society, returns of the, .... 623 

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

 Kirkland, 412 



Varnum, Atkinson C, resolutions of the Board of Agriculture on the death of, 175 

 Ventilation of barns, importance of, 494 



Weather, Massachusetts, 1897, x 



Weeds are disseminated, methods by which, ..,.,,. 271 



