716 INDEX. 



Sorghum cane, apparatus for delivering and removing chips of, to and from the 

 battery, 304. 

 machinery for handling, 305. 

 ratio of seed heads and chips, 313. 

 chips' juice, from cutters, analyses of, 308-310, 

 exhausted chips and waste waters, analyses of, 311. 

 experiments in the manufacture of sugar from, 303. 

 improvement of, by seed selection, 316, 



sugar, causes of failure in manufacturing, at Fort Scott, 315. 

 White African, 55, 

 South America, foreign ti-ade of, 440, 



Carolina, number and value of farms in, 424. 

 Sow-thistle plant, 74. 

 Sparrow, circular on the English, 231. 

 the English, 38, 235. 



an enemy to grape culture, 240. 

 native birds, 238. 



the gardener and fruit-grower, 239. 

 gTain-grower, 241, 

 effect on architecture, 242, 

 failure of, as an insect destroyer, 243. 

 Introduction of, 236, 

 method of diffusion of, 237. 

 rate of increase of, 236, 

 spread of, 237. 

 Sparrows as an article of food, 246. 



destructive habits in foreign countries, 245. 

 English, cause an increase of caterpillars, 243. 

 how they protect the caterpillars, 244. 

 recommendations for destruction of, 245. 



legislation in regard to, 245. 

 Spencer, Guilford L. , report on manufacturing sugar at Magnolia, 828. 

 Sphaceloma avipelinum, 112, 113, 

 Spices and condiments, adulteration of, 291, 



experience in detecting adulterations in countries having 



pubUc analysts, 295 to 298. 

 in this country, 295 to 298, 

 character of, in the District of Columbia, 301. 

 Sporohohis crytandrus, 79. 

 Indicus, 71, 

 tenacissimus, 79, 

 Statement of seed issued from Seed Division, 67. 

 Statistical county reporters, 359, 



percentages, explanation of, 861. 

 reporter at London, 359. 

 Statistician, Report of, 359. 

 Statistics, Division, work of, 22. 



old fashion of reporting, 862. 

 Stipa setigera, 72. 

 Storm and flood signals, 41. 



Studer, a. G., report on citrus fruit in India, 700. 

 Sugar beet, 55. 



beets, analysis of, 341. 



description of samjiles of, 341. 

 cane, experiments with, 18. 



at Fort Scott, 318. 

 canes, analyses of, 319. 

 experiments in manufacturing, at Magnolia, 328. 



the manufacture of, 17. 

 from sugar cane, difference of results at Magnolia and Fort Scott, 323. 

 results of analyses at Fort Scott, 323. 

 yield of, at Fort Scott, 332. 

 house and plantation, uuprovenients in, at Magnolia, 329. 

 percentage of total, obtained from sugar cane, at Fort Scott, 321. 

 Sugars, analyses of, at Magnolia, 336. 



composition of the first, from sugar cane, at Fort Scott, 321. 

 first made, analyses of, from sugar cane, at Fort Scott, 321. 



