140 INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Grape-vines, manures for, 141, 142, 235. 

 Green crops, cultivation and yield of, 14, 17 



value of, as a manure, 259. 

 Grinnell, James S., report by, on sheep-busbandry, 291-308. 

 Ground horn and hoof, analysis and value of, as a fertilizer, 326. 

 Guenon's investigations, 203. 

 Gypsum, value of, as a fertilizer, 234, 319. 



Haltica chalyhea, habits of the, 2.14, 215. 



Heifers, time they should calve, 201. 



Hereditary influence, 186-188. 



Hersey, Edmund, address of welcome by, 8-14. 



Hired men, liability of the employer for acts of, 169. 



Hiring farm-help, iioints to be observed in, 153, 154. 



Hunting and fishing on the farm belongs to the owner of the land, 176. 



Impounding cattle, laws on, 163. 



Indian corn, advisability of grinding cobs of, for meal with the grain, 59, 60. 



analysis of, 58, 78. 



cost of raising, 127. 



cultivation and yield of, 19, 29, 31, 34, 37, 42, 127, 130, 238. 



extent of the crop of, in the United States, 61. 



how to select the seed of, 19, 29-31, 37. 



increased area devoted to the growth of, 5, 127. 



manure for, and its application, 127, 130, 238. 

 Influence of water on plant-growth, 252, 253. 

 Insects, methods for destroying, 207, 230. 



Japan, farming in, 103, 105, 106, 108. 



geographical characteristics of, 90, 91. 

 industries of, 93-95. 



characteristics of people of, 92, 93, 99, 101. 

 scarcity of domestic animals in, 95, 101. 

 tea-culture in, 110-112. 



Labor, hired, on the farm, legal provisions relating to, 153, 154. 

 Lawes & Gilbert, experiments of, 251, 257. 



Laws in relation to diseases among cattle, necessity for changes in, 288. 

 Leaching of fertilizers, 70, 72, 73, 84, 85. 

 Leaf, structure of the, 245. 



Liability of the farmer for the acts of his help, 169. 



fires on others' lands, 171. 

 owners of stray cattle, 160. 

 Liebig, Baron, investigations by, 46. 



Lightning-rod contracts, how they should be worded, 179. 

 Like produces lilvc, 38, 186. 

 Limekiln-ashes, value of, as a fertilizer, 319. 

 Lycimeter, or rain-gauge, use and value of the, 71. 



Mangolds, methods of cultivation and jdeld of, 24, 25. 



Manures, adaptation of, to soils, 17, 18, 116, 117. » 



go with the farm when sold, 152. 

 Meadows and lowlands, necessity for reclamation of, 57. 

 Milk-mirror of Guenon described, 203, 204. 

 Milch cows, feeding and management of, 56, 192, 204. 

 Moore, John B., essay by, upon root and vegetable culture, 14-24. 

 My farming experience, lecture on, by A. W. Paul, 113-129. 



