444 INDEX, 



Pago. 

 Phylhscdis air a 27 



PhjUoxira vastatrix 40,70,81,411 



Pigs, value of whey and skimmed iiiiik for 386 



Plant-food, providiajj proper 389 



Plants, the collection of economic 10 



Plura-culture, the profitablenesa of 405 



Plum-trees, preventive of cioxculio ou 405,411 



Poisons, miueral, affecti-iig plains 56 



Poraological Society, Maine State 385, 388 



Michigan State 402 



Pork, exports of 239 



markets for x>18, 223, 242-250 



the amouDt of, produced 235, 239 



Pork-packing 217,229,230 



in Canada 238 



the principal cities 234 



West 230 



increase in 241 



on the Pacific coast 237 



resnlts of summer and winter 23o, 239 



summer 235 



winter 230,239 



PortngaT, statistics of- farm-animals in 269 



population, areas, and land-productions in 255-207 



Potato crop 91,104 



the kind and qnuantity of seed for a 4 14 



Potatoes, acreage, yield per acre, product, aud value of, in the several States.. 91 



increased yield of, from supplying the proper plant-food 390 



planted with a plow 414 



Poultry -raising, hints on 401 



profits of 402 



Prices of barley and of oats exported 176 



com and corn-meal exported 175 



cotton 138 



crops 91-104 



farm-animals 112, 209, 250 



farm-products in market 242 



Hour aud wheat exported 175 



grain at Chicago 191-194 



labor in the cotton states 130 



sugar 154 



rye aud ryo-flour exported 176 



Proconia undata 31 



Pruning api)le-trce3, the time for 393 



peach-trees 407 



Prussia, statistics of farm-animals in 269 



population, areas, aud land-productions in 255-267 



Psi/llidce 33 



R. 



Rations far laborers in the cotton States 135 



Remedies and preventives of diseases in farm-animals 107, 109 



Rennet, l)eBt manner of saving, curing, and using 419 



Report of the Botanist 73 



Chemist 46 



Commissioner 7 



Entomologist and Curator of tho JMusouai 17 



Microscopist 74 



Statistician 87 



concluding statements of 281 



Superintendent of Gardens and Grounds 61 



Rhode Island Agricultural and Mechanical College 348 



crops in 92 



farm-auimals in 112 



Rhododendrons 63 



Phozobius 39 



Rinderp'st " 321 



preventing tlie intioductiou of 322 



