INDEX. VII 



F. 



Page. 



Facts from various sources 31, 88, 152, 238, 319, 38'J, 458, 51-2 



Farm-animals, coudition of 1 la 



breeds of, for liilly regions 240 



diseases of 120 



in Ohio 519 



Farm, a Pennsylvania 71 



products in New York 155 



market prices of, 1872 36, 100, 165, 242, 322, 405, 463, 524 



more than half absorbed by cost of transportation f)H 



. records 68 



stock, comparative number and prices of 51 



percentage of numbers and prices in February, 1872, as compared with February, 



1871 ■... 55 



Farmer's club, au active 515 



Beech Island 359 



Goodhue, Minnesota 461 



in North Carolina 94 



clubs in Nova Scotia 515 



Fiiriuing in Iowa 401 . 



Kansas 344 



Louisiana 519 



Texas 157 



northern and southern 359 



northern, and southern jjlanting 207 



Farms, experimental 163 



Fat found in beer-yeast 84 



in seeds, effect of germination on the 83 



Fertilizer, cotton-seed as a .' 102 



value of human excrement as a 312 



Fertilizers and fruit in Georgia 98 



commercial, analysis of 218 



effect of, in cold soils 462 



formula for 139 



Fertilizing elements, waste of, in cities 379 



properties, loss of, in hen-dung 393 



Fescue grass in Texas 401 



Fever, milk 400 



Spanish, remedy for 394 



splenetic or periodic, in cattle 92 



Figs 399 



in Oregon 320 



Financiemig, bad 400 



Fishes, re^ixation of 375 



Flax 488 



and hemp, condition of 274 



culture in Ireland 163 



New Zealand 241 



Flood, destruction of cotton by 518 



Floods in Missouri and Idaho Territory 346 



Florida as a home for emigrants 495 



homesteads in 31 



introduction of useful palms into 85 



new conditions of culture in 91 



orange-grove in 99 



poisonous pasturage in 343 



the lumber-trade in 516 



Flowering seasons, variation of 150 



Fluctuations in the price of sheep and lambs in Great Britain 531 



Fluke in sheep in Australia 517 



Fodder, economy in the use of 389 



Foot and mouth disease in England 397 



Foot-rot 128 



Forests and the public lands 65 



FormulpB for fertilizers 139 



Frost, injury to grapes in California by 238 



Fruit and fertilizers in Georgia '. 98 



sugar in Southeastern Louisiana 95 



causes of the rotting of 25 



condition of 193,275,337 



culture in Kentucky 400 



growing in Lunenburg County, Virginia 461 



in Kansas 463 



southern Illinois 98 



shiijments at Cobden and Makauda, Illinois 97 



trees, liming 25 



Fruitfulness of Stanislaus County, California 344 



Fuel, corn for 487 



Fungi ferment 236 



G. 



Garden, notes on tlie 72 



tools, iron, how to prevent from rusting ' .'. . 27 



Gases, power of soils in absorbing 29 



