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LIST OP ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Report of the Microscopist — Continued. "P&s^ 



Plate VI.— Crystalline formations of lard and other fats 148 



Plate VII.— The Bunsen filter-pump 148 



Report of the Chief of the Division of Forestry : 



Diagram. — The Farmer's interest in Forest Property HO 



Report of the Orxithologist : 



Map.— Distribution of the EngUsh sparrow in the United States at the end 



of the year 18«6 226 



Fig. I. — Male English sparrow 235 



Fig. II. — Apple pecked by English sparrows 240 



Report of the Pomologist : 



Plate I.— Bahia orange 272 



Plate II.— Le Conte pear 273 



Plate III. — Arkansas Black apple 272 



Plate IV. — Fig. 1. — Arkansas Black apple 272 



Fig. 2.— Elkhorn apple 272 



Plate v.— Fig. 1.— Crawford apple 272 



Fig. 2.— Siloam apple 272 



Plate VI.— Fig. 1.— Shannon apple 272 



Fig. 2.— Pilot apple 272 



Plate VII.— Fig. 1.— BurUngton apple 272 



Fig. 3. — Northwestern Greening apple 272 



Plate VIII.— Fig. 1.— Wolf River apple 272 



Fig. 2. — Waupaca apple 272 



Plate IX.— Fig. 1.— Scott's Wmter apple 272 



Fig. 2. — Antonovka apple 273 



Plate X.— Fig. 1.— Boardman apple 272 



Fig. 2. — Kelsey's Japan plum 272 



Report of the Entomologist: 



Plate I.— The Cottony Cushion-scale 592 



Plate II.— The Cottony Cushion-scale 592 



Plate III. — Enemies of the Cottony Cushion-scale 592 



Plate IV. — Lemon orchard infested by Cottony Cushion-scale 592 



Plate V. — Spraying outfit in operation against Cottony Cushion-scale . 592 



Plate VI.— The Southern Buffalo-gnat 592 



Plate VII.— The Southern Buffalo-gnat and the Turkey-gnat 592 



Plate VIII,— The Southern Buffalo-gnat and the Turkey-gnat 592 



Plate IX. — Sciara mistaken for Buffalo-gnat, and Hydropsyche larva 



which feeds upon Buffalo-gnat larvae 592 



Plate X.— The Fall Web- worm 592 



Plate XI. — The Fall Web-worin — view of a Washington street show- 593 



ing defoliation 592 



Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry : 



Plate I. — Hog-cholera — ulcerated caecum of a pig 686 



Plate II. — Hog-cholera — ulcerated casoum of a pig 686 



Plate III. — Hog-cholera and swine-plague. Cover-glass preparations 

 from spL en of rabbit inoculated with the bacterium of 



hog-cholera 686 



Plate IV. — Hog-cholera and swine-plague cultures 686 



Plate V. — Hog-cholera and swine-plague. Surface growth in gelatine 



tubes 680 



Plate VI.— Hog-cholera— liver of rabbit 686 



Plate VII. — Bacterium of hog-cholera 686 



Plate VIII. — Bacterium of hog-cholera and micrococci of swine-plague. 686 



Plate IX. — Swine-plague. Cover-glass prepai-ations 686 



