INDEX. XI 



Page. 



roisousoil of Texas, analysis of the 219 



Pollutjou in water 237 



Population, physical degeneracy of city 34 



Pork, influence of food on the quality of » 25 



Potash, German 78 



Potassium, by a new method 4-13 



function of, in soils 237 



Potomac lands, the 16 



Potato-beetle, the Colorado 217 



blight and rot 507 



rot in England 397 



Potatoes, amount of seed and culture for a crop of 401 



and wheat, in Western New York 163 



condition of 270, 336, 426, 477 



experiment in growing 462 



preventing the germination of, in cellars 26 



proper method of storing 27 



test for apeci6c gravity of 27 



Poultry and eggs, influence of food upon 145 



Prairie-farming in Illinois 156 



grass, Australian 94 



Preparation of timber. Department report on 27 



Preservation of wood 445 



Price and average yield of farm-crops 469 



yield per acre of crops in the United States 483 



of corn 4 



hay 6 



wheat 5 



Prices, comparative, and numbers of farm-stock 51 



Printing on cloth 377 



Productions, agricultural, of "Wiirtemberg 206 



Products outside the ordinary limits of agriculture in California 200 



Profit, comparative, of slave and free labor 320 



Prospect, a fruitful, in Leo County, Mississippi 344 



R. 



Rain, change in the course of 394 



fall in California 165 



in Utah 462 



Raisins produced in California 238 



llamie 319 



cleaning machinery 93 



Rams, merino, for Colorado 394 



Rappahannock, the valley of the 321 



Record, entomological 22, 74, 137, 215, 304, 366, 438, 497 



farm 68 



Remedy for cucumber-beetle, {Diabrotica vittata, Fab.) 24 



grape-vine root louse 319 



the ravages of the grape-vine scourge 80 



Spanish fever 394 



Report, Department, on the preparation of timber 27 



Reports of crops, systematic 434 



the Agricultural Department, foreign commendation of 79 



Rice, condition of 275 



crop, the 518 



production 12 



Rinderpest, inoculation for 149 



Rot 129 



and blight of potatoes 507 



Rotation in crops 346 



Rotting- of fruit, causes of the , 25 



Rudbeckia, (B. laeiniata,) a poisonous 505 



Rural adornment 448 



Rye, condition of _ 189, 268, 426 



Sawdust, utilization of 373 



Scab 129 



School of milk production and management in Switzerland 162 



Scientific notes 24,79,143,229,441,503 



Season, an adverse 488 



eccentric, in Utah 345 



Seeds, eft'ect of germination on the fat in 83 



experiment with 161 



proper mode of testing 160 



Settlement of Washington Territory 401 



Sewage and drainage, eflfect of, on mortality in Calcutta 82 



utilization of the liquid 27 



Sewerage system in Milan 84 



Sewer- water, use of, as manure 151 



Shale-rock from Wisconsin, analysis of 500 



Sheep and lambs, fluctuations in the prices of 521 



conditi3n of 117 



