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INDEX. 



PAGE 



Apiaries, State Inspector of, acknowledgments by, . . . 217 



First annual report of the, ...... 201 



Miscellaneous work by, ....... 214 



Apiary inspection, concerning, ...... xviii 



Appropriations, legislative, for the State Board of Agriculture, 



concerning, xxviii 



Artificial heat, use of, in curing tobacco, .... 79 



Asparagus, growing and marketing, essay on, by Frank Wheeler, 121 



Attracting birds, European methods of, .... 170 



Bee diseases, status of, ....... 208 



Problem of, 215 



Beekeeper, concern of the, in inspection, .... 205 



Beekeepers, voluntary inspection by, ..... 206 



Bees, brood diseases of, ....... 201 



Usefulness of, to the agriculturist, ..... 203 



To the cranberry grower, ..... 204 



To the cucumber grower under glass, . . . 204 



To the market gardener, ...... 204 



To the orchardist, 203 



To the small fruit grower, ..... 204 



Better-farming special trains, concerning, .... xxix 



Birds, European methods of attracting, . . . . .170 



Feeding on the eggs of the gypsy moth, . . . .168 



Song, destroyed by aliens, . . . . . .167 



Bleaching celery, ........ 139 



Brood diseases of bees, . . . . . . .201 



Brooks, Prof. Wm. P., essay by, on alfalfa as a crop in Massachu- 

 setts, 127 



Brush, slashings or, disposing of, . . . . . . 287 



Bulletin on reforestation and nursery work, by State Forester's 



assistant, ........ 292 



Thinning, by State Forester's assistant, .... 292 



Bulletin of Massachusetts agriculture, concerning, . . . xxvi 



Of the State Board of Agriculture, . . . . .111 



Burbank Hospital, forest working plan for the, . . . 272 



Bureau, Cattle. See Cattle Bureau. 



Bureau, Dairy. See Dairy Bureau. 



Bursley, John, response to address of welcome by, ... 5 



Butter, concerning, . . . . . . . . 233 



Renovated, 232 



Catalogue, farm, concerning the, ...... xxii 



Cattle Bureau, annual inspection by, of neat cattle, farm animals 



and premises on which the former are kept, . . 302 



Concerning the, ........ xx 



