INDEX. 687 



Pago. 



Ice trade, article on, by L. Wcthercll ^ 439 



Consumption of ice in Boston 447 



Estimate of ice cut in 1864 44'^ 



Exports of ice from Boston from ] 848 to 1863 449 



First shipment of ice 439 



Freight per ton for shipment to foreign ports 448 



Ice houses in 1847 442 



Manner of cutting ice 442 



Preparing vessels for ice 442 



Price of freight for shipping ice from 1851 to 1863 447 



Statistics showing progress of the ice trade 441 



Style of building ice houses 447 



Ice plant 377 



Ice houses, importance of ice 333 



Illinois, crops of in 1863, prices, acreage, and value 593, 599, 600 



Farm stock in 1864 606 



Meteorology of 625-676 



Imports from New York of dry goods, specie, and other merchandise, from 1S60 to 



July 1,1864 \ 608 



Of flax, & c Ill 



Indiana, crops of in 1863, prices, acreage, and value 594, 599, 600 



Farm stock in 1864 606 



Meteorology of 625-676 



Indigo bird 303 



Infantados improved, description of 231 



Iowa, crops of in 1863, prices, acreage, and value 594, 599, 600 



Farm stock in 1864 606 



Meteorology of '. 626-676 



Isabella grape, description of 129 



, At Kelly's Island, Waterloo, and Croton Point 491 



Italian honey-bee, article on, by Kichard Colvin 530 



Breeding 537 



Description of 535 



General history of 53], 532, 533, 534 



Importation of 530 



Introducing queens 542, 543, 544 



Italianizing an apiary 533 



Profits and importance of bee culture 544 



Eearing queens 538, 539, 540, 541, 542' 



The queen 535 



The drones 535 



The worker 536 



J. 



Jays 234 



Johnston, Professor. — Remarks on Milk 3S7 



Jute 107 



K. 



Kansas, crops of in 1863, prices, acreage, and value 594, 599, 600 



Farm stock in 1864 606 



Meteorology of 626-676 



Kanawha valley 64 



Kelly's island vineyards • 488 



Kerry breed of cows 411 



Kingbird 294 



Kingfisher 294 



Kentucky — Farm stock in 1864 606 



Meteorology of -- L 624-676 



L. 



Ladybirds 579 



Lamellicornia 566 



Lambert wheat, how produced 503 



