CONTENTS. 



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 Division of Statistics : 



Yields and prices of farm products in 1873 5 



Average yields of croi^s iu 1873 5 



Average prices of crops iu 1873 — 6 



Eelative numbers of farm animals 9 



Average prices of farm animals 10 



Tables of yield and prices ^ 11 



Tables of numbers and prices of farm animals 13 



Condition of winter grain 15 



Extracts from correspondence 19 



Recent progress in agricultural science 26 



Agricultural-experiment>tations 27 



The Phylloxera in America 54 



Facts from official sources 57 



Market prices of farm products 67 



Commissioner : 



The Agricultural Department 38 



Agricultural education - 39 



Farm fences 41 



Division of Entomology : 



Entomological record 43 



Further remarks on the Phylloxera 43 



Paris-green as an insecticide 45 



How to recognize the cotton caterpillar 45 



Insect depredations 45 



Division of Chemistry: 



Chemical memoranda 46 



Soil analysis 46 



Exhalation of moisture by plants' 48 



Ammonia and nitric acid 49 



Division of Botany : 



Botanical notes 50 



Apocinum cannabinum 50 



Nourishment of buds through the bark 51 



De Candolle's Prodomus 51 



Populus monilifera as a shade-tree 52 



Early flowering of the jasmine 52 



Division op Microscopy : 



Microscopic investigations 52 



Black-knot 52 



Onion-rust 54 



