INDEX. 713 



N. 



Nebraska, number and value of farms in, 423. 

 New York, number and value of farms in, 418. 

 New Zealand, law for suppressing rabbits, 255. 

 Nicotana quadrivalvis, 76. 



rustica, 76. 

 North Carolina, number and value of farms in, 423. 

 NOYES, M' Walter B., report on citrus fruit in Venice, 69i. 

 Nut-grass, 78. 

 Nutmeg and mace, falsifications of, 301. 



O. 



Oats, Bohemian, 429-432. 

 crop of 1886, 377. 

 reports on, 52. 

 Ohio, number and value of farms in, 420. 

 Oidium, 106. 



Oil of tar against black fly, 500. 

 Oleo, 142. 

 Oleomargarine, 143. 



extraction of cotton-seed oil from, 143. 

 Oppenheim, Ernest L. , report on citrus fruit in Spain, 696. 

 Orange budding, relative merits of stock for, 691. 

 culture in Australia, 702. 

 grove, planting of, 690. 

 groves, preparations for planting, 689. 

 leaf Scab, 120. 



description of the disease, 121. 

 the, 267. 



Bahia, 267. 

 Oranges, cause of the comparative freedom from rust of, 688. 



superiority of " Indian River," 687. 

 Orchai'd grass, 74. 



a spot disease of, 129. 

 Orcharding in Northe'-n New England, 274. 

 Ornithologist, Report of, 227. 

 Ornithology and Mammalogy, Division of, 464. 

 Division of, 38. 

 importance of, 227. 

 work in the Division of, 229. 

 Osage orange as a food-plant, 547. 

 Osier "Willow Culture, 223. 

 Owls and Hawks, value of, to the farm, 228. 

 Ox-eyed daisy, 88. 

 Oyster-shell Bark-louse of the apple, 483. 



P. 



Packard, Dr. , report on insecta, 465. 

 Panicum crus-galli, 84. 

 maximum, 74. 

 Texanum, 72. 

 Paris green, 537, 557. 

 Paspalum dilatatum, 71. 

 Peanut oU, 145. 

 Pear blight, 124, 125. 



preventives of, 127. 

 the, 268. 



Le Conte, 268. 

 Pennsylvania, number and vlaue of farms in, 419. 



"scalp act," of 1885, 228. 

 Pepper, Cavenne, falsifications of, 300. 



falsifications of, 299. 

 Percentage, statistical, explanation of, 361. 

 Peronospora viticola, 96, 115. 



