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Barley, cnii.lition of 190,268,336,426 



Thanet, in Wisconsin 96 



Beech Island Farmers' Olub 'SSS 



Beet-leaves for fodder, preparation of 146 



Beetles in decaj"ing peaches 366 



Beet-sugar - . . 488 



experiments in the manufacture of 220 



in California > 521 



Europe 32 



progress in the manufacture of 14 



Blight of the pear-tree 225 



Biras, spare the 400 



scarcity of small, in France 26 



Bismuth 376 



Bone-meal and bones 77 



Botanical notes 142,222,313,381,446,505 



Brandy from sawdust 1 48 



Bread-making, improved mode of 81 



Breeds of British cattle, origin of 147 



Broom-eorn in Douglas County, Illinois 345 



Budding trees, water-glass for 28 



Bulletin of the Department 19 



Butter, artificial 443 



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Cabbage, cocoa-nut 463 



Cabbage-moth, the 137 



California, aCTiculture in 199, 518 



a large wheat-field in 239 



alfalfa in 296 



beet-sugar in 521 



cotton in 343,397,493 



de&tructive grasshoppers in 22 



grapes iu 488 



hops in 461 



merino-rains for 394 



oranges in 239 



products outside the ordinary limits of agriculture in 200 



rain-fall in 165 



raisins 238 



silk-raising iu 320 



Southern 239 



sugar-beets iu 345 



swamp-lands in 199 



timber in 200 



tobacco in 394 



tree-culture in 319 



wheat, export of 520 



wool product of 162 



Calves, malformation of 401 



Carbolic acid as a disinfectant 139 



Caterpillars ,306 



destroying of 236 



Cattle, condition of 112 



cross between the Zebu {Bos Indicus) and European 460 



disease 342 



diseases of 35, 123 



enzootic miscarriage in 30 



origin of breeds, British 147 



plague 396 



in France 520 



iTiternational council on the 229 



prevention and cure of typhus in 151 



splenetic or periodic fever in 92 



Cellars, destroying mold in 25 



preventing the germination of i)otatoes in 26 



Cereals, culture of, in Virginia 91 



in Utah 90 



Cheese 92 



factories 34 



making in Texas 522 



Chemical notes 20, 76, 137, 218, 307, 371, 440, 500 



Cliemistry, progress of 378 



Chicago, live stock at 89 



stock movements 402 



water, microscopic forms iu ' 232 



Chinch-bugs 238, 307, 320 



ChloraluTU 378 



Cinchona 73, 93, 152, 241 



cultivation of, in Bengal 463 



Java 503 



Cinque-foil shrubbery, (Potentitia/ruticosa) 506 



City population, physical degeneracy of 34 



Cloths, non-intlainiiiable 377 



Clover and wheat, the time to sow iu South Carolina. .' 487 



