592 Index. 



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Improvements, building 21 



Influence of fertilizers on sugar beets 440 



Insects, eggs, effect of hydrocyanic acid gas on 35 



station collection 35 



Inspection, fertilizer 26 



L. 



Ladybird beetle, enemy of cottonwood leaf beetle 332 



Leaf beetle, cottonwood. (See Cottonwood leaf beetle.) 



Lettuce, commercial fertilizers for forcing 483 



fertilizers applied in forcing 484, 487 



forcing, acid phosphate for 4S6 



house, description 462 



nitrate of soda for 486 



potash for 486 



soils, ingredients and composition 464, 467, 475 



484, 487 



stable manure v. commercial fertilizers 488 



growth on forcing soil 476 



with and without commercial fertilizer 486 



head, soil mixtures for forcing 461 



seed, germination and growth 468, 470 



soils, mechanical analyses 47& 



variety for forcing 484 



Lime, arsenite of, for canker worm 35 



Lina scripta. (See Cottonwood leaf beetle.) 



Loam, analyses 487 



Loganberry, notes on 508 



London purple for cottonwood leaf beetle 333 



Lutovka cherry, variety misnamed 564 



M. 



Machine for catching cottonwood leaf beetle 333 



Mailing list 22 



Manufacturers of fertilizers, list 104 



Manures, farm, on sugar beets 30 



Maximum temperature, readings 574 



Megilla maculata, natural enemy of cottonwood leaf beetle 332 



Melons, foreign, test of varieties 32 



