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Poplar {Populus monilifera) aaa shade-tree 52 



Pork-packiug in the West 66 



Potato-beetle, tbe Colorado 324 



crop of 1874 ■■..■.■ 478,485 



rot 273 



Potatoes, acreage of 305, 317 



condition of 305, 354] 414 



disease-proof 534 



experiments with 33] 



growing and preserving 258 



grown in a dark cave 151 



where report 3d the most profitable crop of 95 



yield of 6^ 11 



Poultry-disease '37O 



Prices and numbers of farm-animals 9, 13 



local, of farm-products 425, 492 



of crops 6, 11 



meat in Europe 234 



Product, comparative, of farm-crops in 1874 463, 485 



Progress, recent, in agriculture 26 



R. 



Eain on the Pacific coast 526 



Rain-fall, excessive 37I 



in California, the season of 66 



infiuence of forests on 4,3-2, 527 



Ramie-machine, another ' 537 



Rice-culture in Louisiana 37O, 373 



the South, the extent and increase of ' 372 



Camden County, Georgia 489 



straw 64 



Richmond County, New York, agricultural industries in 319 



Rocky Mountains, grasses growing in the I54 



Roller, drought prevented by the 534 



Rotation, the best system of 510 



Russia, protection of forests in 528 



Rye, acreage of 246 



condition of 246,304,353 



winter 18 



from seed distiibuted by the Department 371 



price of 8, 11 



white winter 422 



yield of 11, 4U9, 418 



Saint Landry, La., agriculture in 536 



Sap, circulation of . . . 151 



Sausages colored with fuchsin 225 



Scotland, farming by steam in 392 



Seed-distribution, benefit from 533 



result of 238 



Seed, results of experiments in selecting 381 



the selecting and planting of 381 



wheat for Egypt 422 



Seeds from the Department in Louisiana 60 



test of, in Washington Territory 534 



vitality of 534 



Sewage in Paiis, utilization of 033 



faiuiiug in England 53I 



Sheep, a flock of, in Texas 523 



cimdition of , 195 



di.seases of 207 



husbandry in Tasmania 524 



losses of 198, 253 



numbers and prices of ' 9, 10, 14 



raising in the South banished by dogs ' 391 



Shepherds, schools of, in France 220 



Short horn breeders, convention of 537 



Soils, analyses of 46 



Sorghum ! !!...'...!"... 60 



acreage and condition of 310, 318 



yield of '486 



South Carolina, minerals in 238 



rice-culture in 372 



Squirrels, depredations by \.[\ 45 



Starch, a soluble modification of 377 



Statistics, local, of fruit-growing 251 



of acreage and condition of crops 255, 317, 368, 369, 418, 485 



a flock of sheep in Texas 523 



agriculture and forestry, international 495 



discrepancy in local 536 



English 525 



cotton-munufacture 523 



crops for 1873 , 11 



1874 [."[[[]'.'..'.[[li["[\\[[][[[ 485 



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