CONTENTS. 



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 Division of Statistics : 



Kepoit of crop-returns 341 



Corn 341 



Wheat 348 



Oats 351 



Eye 353 



Barley 353 



Buckwheat 353 



Tobacco 353 



Potatoes 354, 356- 



Cotton 356 



Hay and pastures 361 



Stock-hogs ; 364 



Fruit 364 



Tabulated returns 368 



Extracts from correspondence 370 



Rice 372 



Oats-crop of the South 380 



Selection and planting of seed 381 



Crop-experiments 387 



Jute in Louisiana 389 



Agriculture in India 389 



Facts from official sources 390 



Market-prices of farm-products 394 



Live-stock markets 393 



Foreign markets 399 



Division of Entomology : 



Entomological record 373 



Insect-injuries 373 



Miscellaneous 375 



Division of Chemistry: 



Chemical memoranda 376 



Castor- plant 376 



Artificial production of indigo 376 



Use of Paris-green 377 



Sugar contained in vine-leaves 377 



A soluble modification of starch 377 



Production of ozone by oxidation of volatile hydrocarbons 379 



Division of Botany : 



Botanical notes 379 



Grasses for the South 379 



Johnson grass 380 



