494 INDEX. 



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Agriculture, Board of, State — Coii. 



Dairy Bureau of the, report of tlie, ..... 285 



Executive committee of tlie, meetings of tlie, ... 3 



Members, oiScers and committees, . . . v, 187, 190, 469 



Public meetings of the, concerning, ..... 377 



Public winter meeting of the, at Springfield, . . . 17 



Publications of the, ........ xxiii 



Report of the, to the Legislature, acting as overseers of the 



Massachusetts Agricultural College, . . . .199 



Resolutions by, on the death of Henry S. Perham, . . 193 



Resolutions by, on the gypsy and brown-tail moths, . . 8 



Special business meetings of the, ..... 7 



Summer field meeting of the, at Fitchburg, . . . 11 



Akerman, Alfred, rejjort by, as State Forester, . . . 307 



Alfalfa, concerning, ....... 134, 141 



Amherst College, teaching of agriculture in, .... 344 



Andover, Teacher's Seminary in, concerning the, . . . 835 



Animals, results of inspection of, in work of Cattle Bureau, . 249 



Inspectors of, directions to, ..... . 246 



Anthrax, symptomatic, in work of Cattle Bureau, . . . 275 



Apjale, some of the commonest diseases of the, ... 24 



Apple contrasted, history and development of the potato and the, 29 

 Appropriations for agricultural purjjoses, legislative, . . xxiv 



Arbor Day pamjjhlet, concerning the, ..... xxv 



Associations, milk test, concerning, . . . . . .412 



Bell, Governor Charles J., address by, on the charms of rural 



life in New England, . . . . . . . 12 



Board of Agriculture. See Agriculture, Board of. 



Bordeaux mixture on late potatoes, results of use of, . . 35 



Boston butter supply, statistics of, . . . . . .291 



Boston milk supply, statistics of , . . . . . . 293 



Botanic garden, concerning the, . . . . . .372 



Bowman, Henry H., address of welcome by, .... 17 



Brooks, Prof. William P., essay by, on clovers : their value, 



characteristics of varieties and methods of production, . 421 

 Bureau, Cattle. See Cattle Bureau. 

 Bui-eau, Dairy. See Daiiy Bureau. 

 Bussey Institution, concerning the, ...... 340 



Butter, renovated, in Avork of Dairy Bureau, .... 290 



Butter market, Boston, concerning the, . . . . .291 



Cattle Bureau, financial statement of the, ..... 277 



Tenth semiannual report of the Chief of the, . . . 217 



Chickweed, concerning, ........ 175 



