INDEX. VII 



rage. 



Hodges in Texas 533 



Hemp in Ciilifovnia, 42G 



Hens, profit in 237 



Uogs, diseases of 208 



number and priijos of !', 10, 14 



Homestead claims abandoned 391 



Hop-crop in Europe 455 



Hops in Wisconsin 320 



Horses, conscription of, in I'rance 453 



diseases of 201 



export of, from France 528 



for the army in France 393 



number and prices of 0, 10, 13 



Horticultural exhibition in Italy 58 



Huntington County (Pennsylvania) Agricultural Society 160 



I. 



Hlinois, dairy-husbandry in Xorthoru 159 



timber-growing in 160 



Inimigrants, occupations of 61 



Immigration in 1872-'73 60 



the Gulf region as a field for 390 



Imports, British, of wheat aud flour 156 



India, agriculture in 38!) 



British, irrigation in 232 



cinchona in 526 



Indiana, onions in 236 



Indigo, artificial production of -• 370 



Insect injuries 45, 320, 373, 430 



Insects, poke-root an exterminator of , 222 



Iron and steel, production of in the United States 65 



Irrigation in British India 232 



Kern County, California 319 



Italy, horticultural aud botanical exhibition ia . .,. 58 



J. 



Jassauiine, early flowering of the 52 



J ute, a promise of success iu growing 320 



as a protector of growing cotton 162 



experimeuts in raising 57 



in Bengal 58 



in Louisiana 389 



K. 



Kansas, castor-beans in 320 



Kern County, California, irrigation iu 319 



1a. 



Labor, division of, in agriculture. . . 333 



local supply of. 319 



Lambs, losses of 254 



Lime and its use 449 



Live-stock, a local decrease in 320 



in Denmark 277 



markets 69, 167, 241, 282, 337, 398, 457, 543 



notes on 426, 489 



Losses of cattle and sheep 198 



farm-animals from not sheltering 190 



Louisiana, jute in 389 



rice-culture in 373 



seeds from the Department in 60 



the disease charbon iu 393 



M. 



Maine, cor n in 60 



wild-cats iu 63 



Mangel-wurzel yield and profit of 235 



Manufacturing,' necessity of, in the South 263 



Manure, the preservation of 454 



i\Ian ures, rata of exhaustion of 62 



Maple-sugar, the quantity of, manufactured 254, 256 



Marion Conn ty, Oregon 64 



Market-gardening ; under what conditions most profitable 94 



prices of farm-products 67. 162, 238, 278, 335, 394, 455, 539 



Markets, foreign 70, 169, 242, 284, 338, 399, 458, 544 



for live-stock 69,167,241,282,337,398,457,543 



Maryland, a remarkable yield of corn in 161 



Mason Cimiity, 111., productions of corn ia 532 



Meadow-culture, Peterson's method of 433 



