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Massachusetts Horticultural Society, returns of the, 473 



Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, returns of the, . . . 474 



Massachusetts State Grange, ofHcers of the, 496 



Middlesex North Agricultural Society, returns of the, 474 



Middlesex South Agricultural Society, returns of the, 475 



Maynard, Prof. S. T., report by, on the meetings of the Massachusetts Fruit 



Growers' Association, 328 



Meadow, course adopted at the State Agricultural Experiment Station in re- 

 claiming an old, 259 



Milk, analyses of, 299, 444, 450 



Milk, contamination of, by water supply, 547, 586 



Milk, skim, food value of, 147, 165, 305 



Milk diarrhoea or cholera infantum, concerning, 583 



Milk for private trade, making, lecture on, by N. I. Bowditch, . . , . 194 



Milk laws, concerning the enforcement of, 303, 444 



Milk preservatives, concerning, • • 446 



Milk standard, concerning the, 299 



Milk supply of Boston, statistics of, 447 



Milk tester, the Babcock ; its value and importance to the producer and dealer 



in sale milk, essay on, by Geo. M. Whitaker, 297 



Milk and cream, condensed, concerning 446 



Milking machine, concerning the, 201 



Nantucket Agricultural Society, returns of the, 476 



New England Agriculture, the future of, lecture on, by Geo. W. Athevton, . 92 

 Nutritive ratio, what it is, 308 



Oat feed, preparation, composition, digestibility, 318, 326 



Ocneria dispar. See Gypsy Moth. 



CEsophagostoma Columbiatmm, concerning, 563 



Oleomargarine laws, concerning the enforcement of 438 



Orchards, ploughing of, late in the season, 331 



Orchards, pruning of, 332 



Orchards, apple, treatment, pruning, ploughing, fertilizing, . . . 332, 334 

 Oxford Agricultural Society, returns of the, ... ... 476 



Perkins, C. H., remarks by, on the preservation, storing and marketing of 



fruit, • ... 338 



Pine, white, growing the 24 



Plant food, commercial, lecture on, by Prof. W. H. Jordan, .... 53 



Podisus placidus, life history of, 399 



Plymouth County Agricultural Society, mortgage of property of , . . . 211 



Plymouth County Agricultural Society, returns of the, 497 



Premium returns of the incorporated societies, 457, 486 



Rabies, work of the Cattle Commissioners concerning 556, 564 



Resolutions of the American Association of Economic Entomologists con- 

 cerning the gypsy moth, 360 



Resolutions of the Farmers' National Congress concerning the gypsy moth 

 and taxation, 357, 515 



Resolutions of the Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Association concerning the 

 gypsy moth, 337 



Rice meal, preparation, composition, digestibility 317 



Smith, A. A., address of welcome by, before the Board of Agriculture at Green- 

 field, 13 



