706 INDEX. 



Apple, the, 268. 



Antonovka, 273. 



Arkansas black, 268. 



Boai'dman, 272. 



Burlington, 270. 



Crawford, 269. 



Elkhorn, 269. 



Northwestern Greening, 271. 



Pilot, 270. 



Scott's Winter, 271. 



Shannon, 269. 



SHoam, 269. 



Waupaca, 271. 



Wolf river, 371. 

 Arbor Day, 181. 

 Arctium Lappa, 86. 

 Argentine Republic, distribution of trade of, 445. 



imports and exports, 444. 

 Arkansas, number and value of farms in, 426. 

 Arsenical poison for Fall Web-worm, 536. 

 Arthur, J. C, report on pea blight, 125. 

 table of fungi by, 132-135. 

 Asdepias tuber osa, 78. 

 Ascomycetous fungi, 123. 

 Astragalus mollissimus, 75. 

 Australian bug. (See Cottony Cushion-scale.) 

 Australia, sytematic forestiy of, 184. 

 AvANiA, Elie, report on citrus fruit in Syria, 699. 



B. 



Babbitt's lye, experiments with, 566. 



Bagasse burner and consumption of fuel at Magnolia, 330. 



vises and value of, 327. 

 Barbarea proecox, 92. 

 vulgaris, 92. 

 Barley, crop of 1886, 379. 

 insects, 578. 

 report on, 50. 

 Bear grass, 76. 

 Bee culture, 462. 

 Beef fat, 143. 

 Bees, control of reproduction in, 587. 



fertilization of, in confinement^ 590. 

 quaking disease of, 583. 

 Beggar- weed, 75. 

 Benne oil, 144. 

 Berberis trifoliata, 77. 

 BiELBY, C.F. A., on Orange-leaf Scab, 120. 

 Birds and mammals, circular for collection of stomachs of, 333. 

 circular on the food-habits of, 230. 

 distribution and migration of, 250. 

 habits of, with Cottony Cushion-scale, 483, 484. 

 Bisulpliide of carbon, experiments on fumigation, 500, 569, 

 Bitter-weed, 87. 

 Black-billed Cuckoo, 526. 

 fly, 493. 

 rot, 109, 116. 

 Blood sucker, 537. 

 Blue thistle, 90. 

 weed. 90. 

 Bobolink, 39. 



Borax, the physiological action of, 140. 

 Botanical Division, history of, 69. 

 report of, 69. 

 work of, 35. 

 perfect specimens necessaiy, 81. 

 specimens, prci)aration of, 81. 



