INDEX. 603 



Page. 



Letters from farmers on seed distribution ■. - IG, 35 



Levees to protect sugar lauds 275 



Ligninuvita'-root bark {Guiacum officinale) 133 



Lime, analyses of 144, 145 



Loco, or poison weed ( Oxijtropis lamherti) 134 



Losses from animal diseases 321 



Louisiana, acreage, yield, and value of crops 262, 2tK5, 2G7, 268, 269, 270 



Louisville, dried- fruit trade of 593 



Maine, yield, acreage, and value of cro])s 259, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270 



Malt liquor, production in the United States 276 



Manna, or lir sugar 118 



Market prices of farm products in 1878 298 



Market prices of live stock in 1878 .- 308 



Marls 139,140 



Maryland, acreage, yield, and value of crops in 260, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270 



Massachusetts, acreage, yield, and value of crops in 259,266,267,268,209,270 



Melada, imports, exports, consumption, and cost GO, 66 



Memjjliis, dried fruit trade of '. 593 



Midge {Cecidonuiia, sp.) injuring clover 209 



Migrations of the cotton worm 21g 



Milch cows, numbers, prices, and aggregate values 272, 273 



Milk from cow with pleuro-pneunionia, analysis of 137 



Millet, sugar from 9, 102 



Mineral water, analysis of 138 



Minnesota, acreage, yield, and value of crops 263,266,267,268,269,270 



Michigan, a(;reage, yield, and value of crops 263, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270 



Microscopical divisicm, work of 17 



Mission grape in California 503 



Mississippi, acreage, yi tdd, and value of crops 261 , 266, 267, 268, 269, 270 



Missouri, acreage, yield, and value of crops 264, 264, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270 



Mojave, desert soils 485 



Molasses, imports, exports, production, consumption, and cost 70,74 



Molasses, maize and sorghum, analyses of 107 



Montana, forest area in 531 



Mountain tea (SoUdago odora) .-- 129 



Mulberry, ditferent species of 235 



Mules affected by glanders 469 



numbers, prices, and aggregate values of 272,273 



MiTseum, need of inci'eased apx)roiVriatiou 39 



Nasal gleet ^ 451 



Native grasses, analyses of 10 



Native tea (Skla siijiv.Jata) 129 



Nebraska, acreage, i^neld, and value of crops 264, 266, 268, 269, 270 



Nettle, as cattle fodder i . 564 



a substitute for hemp 561 



average product of yaru ., 564 



better hackliug-machinory needed 565 



conditions i)f growth ..,.. 563 



culture, experiments of Frau Van Eoeszlcr Lad<? 562 



insect enemies 562 



manipulatiou of the fiber ...-..,.. „. 564 



species recoguizeu 562 



time and method of harvesting 563 



Nevada, acreage, yield, and value of "crops 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270 



forest area in -- 536 



New Hampshire, acreage, yield, and value of crops 259, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270 



New Jersey, acreage, yield, and value of crops 260,266,267,268,260,270 



New Mexico, forest area in , 545 



New Orleans, market prices of farm xiroducts in 1878 ^06 



live stock in 1878 310 



Now York, acreage, yield, and value of crops 260, 236, 267, 268, 2G9, 270 



m arket prices o f farm products in 1878 298 



live stock in 1878 j'-OS 



' swine plague in '>65 



North Carolina, average, yield, and value of crops 261,266,267,268,260,270 



dried iruit product 592 



losses l>y swine disease 434,440 



number of swine in 434 



origin of swine plague in .,... ...... ....... 439 



