INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Address of welcome before the Board of Agriculture at Newburyport, by Mayor 



0. J. Gurney, 13. 

 Agricultural and similar organizations, directory of, 341. 

 Agricultural College, Massachusetts, report to Legislature of Board of Agriculture 



acting as overseers of the, 318. 

 Agricultural College, Massachusetts, officers and trustees of the, 343. 

 Agricultural exhibitions, dates of and assignment of inspectors to, 315. 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Massachusetts, officers of, 344. 

 Agricultural societies, officers of, 345. 

 Agricultural societies, returns of, 273, 303. 

 Agriculture, Board of, address of welcome before the, at Newburyport, by Mayor 



O. J. Gurney, 13. 

 Agriculture, Board of, annual meeting of the, 307. 



Agriculture, Board of, dairy bureau of the, fourth annual report of the, 219. 

 Agriculture, Board of, executive committee of the, meetings of, 3. 

 Agriculture, Board of, gypsy moth committee of the, report of the, 235. 

 Agriculture, Board of, members of the, roster of the, 341. 

 Agriculture, Board of, officers and committees of the, 342. 

 Agriculture, Board of, public winter meeting of the, at Newburyport, 13. 

 Agriculture, Board of, report by the, to the Legislature, acting as overseers of the 



Massachusetts Agricultural College, 318. 

 Agriculture, Board of, resolutions by the, concerning oleomargarine, 10, 312. 

 Agriculture, Board of, special meeting of the, at Newburyport, 9. 

 Aladdin oven, description and work of the, 65. 



Amesbury and Salisbury Agricultural and Horticultural Society, returns of the, 273. 

 Animals, compensation for, if killed when diseased, concerning, 308, 413. 

 Animals, compensation for diseased, history of law of, 421. 

 Anthracnose of the raspberry, concerning, 207. 

 Aphis, black, destroying the, 204. 

 Apple, insects and fungi injuring the, 199. 

 Apple, scab, rust and maggot, concerning the, ,200. 

 Appleton, Francis H., communication by, 16. 

 Arsenate of lead as an insecticide, value of, 248. 



Atkinson, Edward, lecture by, on the nutrition of the soil, plant, beast and man, 57. 

 Attleborough Agricultural Association, returns of the, 274. 



Babcock milk tester, importance of the, 229. 



Barnstable County Agricultural Society, returns of the, 274. 



Bean, horse, concerning the, 148, 150, 154. 



Beast and man, the nutrition of soil, plant, lecture on, by Edward Atkinson, 57. 



Berkshire Agricultural Societ}', returns of the, 275. 



Blackberry, insects and fungi injuring the, 207. 



Black paria, concerning the, 208. 



Black rot on the grape, concerning the, 205. 



Blackstone Valley Agricultural Society, returns of the, 276. 



Blight, tire and leaf, of the pear, concerning, 202. 



Blight, leaf, of the plum, peach and cherry, concerning, 203. 



Bordeaux mixture, how made and used, 196. 



Bowlders and bushes, removing of, 177, 181, 184. 



