632 INDEX. 



Europe, cereal supply of, 402 to 404. 



Evergreen Cleora, 327, i}2S. 



Esamiuation of butter and its suLsitutes, 95 to 97. 



Pasteur's vaccine for rougei, 479. 

 Experiment stations, 6. 

 Experiments in Alaska, 20. 



the manufacture of sugar, 10. 

 Exports and imports, agricultural, 377 to 380. 



F. 



Fairy ring champignon, 103. 

 Farm animals, numbers, 417. 

 I>rices, 422. 



tables of number on farms, 3G7 to 369. 

 value, 419. 

 crops, average composition of, 158. 

 prices, 415. 

 Fences, cost of, 188. 

 Fertility, on -wliat it depends, 168. 

 Fibers, i>rofitable i^roduction of, 5. 

 Filature, establishment of, 216, 217. 



Fitch, Dr. Asa, natural history of Whito-pino ■weevil, 322. 

 Flacciditjr, a disease of silk worms, 221, 222. 

 Flax, area and product of the year, 417. 

 Food adulteration, 11. 

 Foreign medicinal plants, 64. 

 Forest fires, from locomotives, 203. 



tree insects, report on, by Dr. A. S. Packard, 319 to 332. 

 plantation in Kansas, 203. 

 Forests, distribution of, in the United States, 187, 188. 

 effect of, on climate, 196. 

 increase or decrease of, 190. 

 influence of, on streams, &c., 192. 

 present area of, in the States and Territories, 186. 

 Forestry Congress, the American, 199. 

 Southern, 199. 

 Division, progress of, during the year, 204 to 206. 

 investigations during the present year, 186. 

 new volume of reports on, 184. 

 publication in 1885, 30. 

 report of Chief of, 183. 

 work in Division of, 21. 

 Fowls, gape disease of, 550. 



experiments with, by Dr. Walker, 551 to 553. 

 Fruits, &c., profital)le production of, 5. 

 Fumigating with sulphur for locusts, 300. 

 Fungi, 94. 

 Fungous diseases of plants, 76 to 85. 



G. 



Garden and Grounds, work in Division of, 16. 



web-worm, 209, 265 to 270. 

 General notes on butter, fats, &c., 100. 

 Genitalia in Diptera, classificatory value of, 287. 

 Geometrid larvffi, protective resemblance in, 320. 

 Gillenia stipulacea, 69. 



trifoliata, 68. 

 Glucose, commercial, 114. 



estimation of water in, 116. 

 Glycyrrhiza (jldbra, G5. 

 Gooseberry blight, 81. 



Government encouragement of wheat culture in India, 580. 

 Grain sphenophorus, 31.5, 316. 



Grant, M. E., on poisoning garden web-worm, 269. 

 Grape-vine mildew, 84. 



Grape-vines, true cause of failure in growing, 35, 3G, 37. 

 Grasserie, a disease of silk worms, 221. 

 Grasses, notes on, 74. 

 Grindelia roiusta, 70. 



Ground available for field work too limited, 33. 

 Gum plant, character .ind uses of. 70, 71. 



