714 INDEX. 



Persimmon, Japan, adaptability to our climate, 692. 



propagation of, 692. 

 Phoma uvicola, 116. 

 Physalospora Bidwellii, 109. 

 Phytopthora infestans, 121. 

 Pig-weed, 91. 

 Pine apples a safe crop in Florida, 691 . 



liow to protect, 691. 

 Plant diseases, table of, 132-135. 

 Plants, investigations of the fungous diseases of, 28. 



Eussian forage, 54. 

 Plates, Animal Industry, description of, 684, 685. 

 explanation of Microscopist's, 146, 147. 

 Mycological, 136-138. 

 Pleuro-pneumonia of cattle, 14. 



progress of, and action taken, 593. 



co-operation with infected States, 601. 

 Plum, the, 272. 



Plum, the Kelsey's Japan, 272. 

 Pneumonia, infectious, recent outbreaks of, 675 to 677. 



relation of, to swine plague, 682. 

 Poa australis, 79. 



Pomological Division, the future of, 259. 

 work of, 37. 

 exports versus imports, 260. 

 investigations, summary of, 260 to 267. 

 Poraologist, Eeport of, 259. 

 Potatoes, crop of 1886, 380 

 Potato rot, 121. 



seed, reports relative to, 53. 

 Press cakes, analyses of, at Magnolia, 335. 

 at Fort Scott, 312. 

 commercial value of, 335, 



composition of, from sugar cane at Fort Scott, 325. 

 Production, increase of, 23. 



results of, 8. 

 Publications on forestry, 226. 

 Pump for use at Fort Scott, 305. 

 Pyrenomycetes, 131. 

 Pyrethruvi powder, 500. 

 roseum, 53. 



Q. 



Quarantine, Garfield Station, cattle received at, 684. 

 Littleton Station, cattle received at, 684. 

 monthly record of cattle received at various stations, 684. 

 Patapsco Station, cattle received at, 684. 

 United States neat-cattle, 684. 



R. 



Rabbit importation should be guarded by law, 257. 

 Rabbits, losses sustained by, 254. 



of the United States, 256. 



remedial measures against, in Australia, 254. 



the Australian, 253. 

 Rag weed, 87. 



Railroads in South America, 447. 

 Rannnculis acris, 92, 



bulbosus, 92. 

 Rates of transportation, 436. 



Rayson, George, report on citrus fruit m Marsala, 694. 

 Rear-horse, 526. 



Reforestation, management of, 218. 

 Remedies for Anthracnose, 112. 

 Black-rot, 100, 111. 



