604 INDEX. 



Pago. 



North. Carolina, silk culture ii\..»... 19 



swiue diseases in 4',i2 



Nutrition of plants and animals 185 



Oats, * ' Board of Trade," results of sowing 37 



crop of 18TS i 258 



experiments in cultivating 81 



in California 499 



winter^ seed distributed 37 



Ohio, acreage, yield, and value of crops 2G3, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270 



Oil fi-om tea'-seed 128 



Oleomargarine and butter, analyses of 135 



Olive culture 16 



Oranges 16,205 



Orchard planting 207 



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



forest area in 536 



Osage orange 19,20,236 



Panicum 159 



Paris exposition of 1878 26 



green, substitutes for 144 



Peach regions 578, 579 



Pease, analysis and composition of 124,125, 126 



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



Peruvian sweet-potatoes 117 



Philadelphia, dried-fruit trade of 593 



market prices of farm products in 1878 300 



live stock in 1878 308 



Phylloxera vastainx 237,238,-^06 



Pleuro-pneumonia, analysis of milk from an infected cow 137 



necessity of its extirpation 26 



Poor man's coffee {Cassia occidentaUs) 129 



Population.. 22 



Pork packing, cost per head 313 



in the United States 312 



net weight per head 312,313,314 



numbers 312,313,314,315,316 



products, exports of 291, 317 



Potatoes, crop of 1878 259 



experiments in cultivating 85 



in California 499 



Prices, average, of crops received by the farmer 269,271 



market, of farm products ia 1878 298 



livestockin 1878 308 



of corn, average for sixteen years 290 



farm animals 272, 273, 274 



tobacco, causes of depression 565 



wheat, average, for sixteen years 289 



Property, value of real and personal 22 



Prussia, agricultriral statistics of r!19 



Pumpkins in California , 499 



Quillage bark ( QulUnija saponaria) * — 133 



Kainfall and mean temperature at Fort Kice, Dakota , 550 



at Camp Supplv, Arizona • 545 



Fort Buford^ Dakota 549 



Fort Gibson, Indian Territory 544 



Fort Sisseton, Dakota 522 



west of the Cascade Range 539 



Eaisin production in CalifoiTiia 586 



Reindeer moss ( Cladonla rangifcrina) K?2 



Report of the Botauist and Chemist on grasses and forage plants 157 



Chemist 95 



Entomologist 207 



Statistician 257 



Superintendent of gardens and grounds 194 



Dr. H. J. Detmers on swiue plague 3:^1 



supplemental - - 3(>2 



James Law on swine plague 1^65 



supplemental 407 



D. E. Salmon on swine plague 432 



