INDEX. IX 



K. 



Page. 



Kiuisus, conditiou of live stock iu 94 



experiments with forest-trees iu 50G 



farming ia 344 



fruit iu 463 



silk-culture in 458 



tree-planting in • !t.j, 99, r)ll> 



Western, vegetation in 223 



Ktniui'Uy, exports of "Warren County 33 



market-gardening and fruit-culture in 400 



stock-sales in 523 



tobacco in 4C0 



Labor, romparalive profit of slave and free 320 



cost of, iu the South 241 



Lamp-shades, paper 377 



Lands, alkaline, in Utah 99 



arable, the amount of, in the Netherlands 463 



Ai'kansas 95 



swamp, reclamation of • 18 



the Potomac Hi 



the public, and forests 65 



Laud-tenure, new system of, iu Egypt 459 



Larch, the European, effects of climate and soil on 395 



Leaves, absorption of water by 24, 310 



palmetto, for paper , 320 



Larvaj in terminal shoots of peach 304 



Liatris odoratissima. wild, (wild vanilla) 222 



Licorice-root cultivation 72 



Light, influence of variously colored, on vegetation 233 



Lime and muck, benefit of, on sandy soil 344 



Live stock at Chicago 89 



condition of, in Kansas 94 



Locusts 306 



Louisiana, farming in 519 



fruit and sugar in Southeastern 95 



orange-calture in 461 



sugar-culture iu 238, 239 



Lumber prodiu^t of the Upper Mississippi 162 



trade in Florida 51li 



31. 



itachinery for cleaning ramie-filjer 1)3 



ilaine, encouragement to tree-planting in 163 



Northern 155 



Malaria, origin of 236 



Manila hemp-plantain, the 365 



Manure, Huano 87 



uses of sewer- water as 151 



Marble, artificial 443 



Market-gardening in Kentucky 400 



prices of farm products, 18T2 36, 100, 165, 242, 322, 405, 463, 524 



Markets, foreign 528 



Marl from Maryland, analysis of 500 



Marls, analysis of 308, 371, 500 



examination of 307 



Maryland, analysis of marl from 500 



Massachusetts, cranberry-crop in 397 



Measures, uniform standard of ■ 505 



Meat-market, the New York 398 



Mesqulte-gum . .'. 158 



Meteorological changes 345 



Meteorology for December, 1871 38 



in Colorado 401 



agriculture 518 



Microscopic forms in Chicago water 232 



investigations 225,317,387,449,507 



ililk, comparative amount of cream from deep or shallow setting of 513 



condensed 34, 92 



fever 400 



living organisms in 376 



of diseased cattle 147 



production and management, Swiss school of 162 



product of an Ayrshire dairj- 512 



pure and cheap 523 



sugar irom vegetable juices 146 



Mineral matter, amount and origin of, in plants 234 



Minnesota State fair, address of "the Commissioner of Agriculture at the 347 



wheat experiment in 99 



Mississippi, experimental farm for ; 160 



Mites in pear-lea yes 305 



Mold in cellars, how to destroy 25 



Mortality, effect of drainage and sewerage on, in Calcutta 82 



Moule's earth -closet 45?* 



