INDEX. 619 



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Pleuro-pneumouia, investigation of, in New Jersey 466 



New Yorlc 4G0 



Poimsylvaiiia 4G;> 



Prof. James Law, on 43G 



repressive measures in New Jersey , 454 



Pennsylvania - 454 



Pork pacliiug, stalisticH on 178 



Potasli salts, analyses of 73,74 



Potato crop of 1879 129 



seed, experiments witli 489 



Prodnc(s, marlcct prices for 1879 108 



R. 



Ramie, report on cnltivation of 592 



Eefuse, animal and vegetable, analyses of 73 



Report of Botanist on grasses .. 349 



Cliemist 35 



Commissioner of Agricnltiire 5 



Dr. Ch arles P. Lryman on pleuro-pnenmonia 456 



Dr. H. J. Detmers (second) on swine plagne 369 



Dr. James Law , 420 



Entomologist 185 



Superintendent of gardens and grounds 359 



Statistician ' 127 



on army worm 1 187 



cotton insects 263 



forage plants and grasses 105-127 



hemp and flax industries 565 



swine plague 365 



swine plagne (supplemental report of Dr. Detmers) 389 



swine plague (second snpplemental) 420 



vegetable fibers in the collection of the Department of Agriculture 497 



Results and conclusions of Dr. Detmers 416 



Rice and rice waste, analyses of 102 



upland, seeds, experiment with 489 



Eetinia ComslocJciana Yavnald, report on :i:!3 



the frustrating, report on 236 



the pitch i^ine 237 



S. 



Salt from evaporatiou of lake water, analyses of 82 



rock, analyses of 81 



Schizomycetes, the infectious iirinciiile of swine plague, description of 412 



Seeds, department, experiments with 484 



distribution of 21 



importance of carefully selected 91 



sorghum, Chinese corn, and brown doura, analyses of 101 



Shield-bearer, resplendent, report on 210 



Shoddy-waste, analyses of 73 



Soils, analyses of 68,69,70 



analyses of, from Small Mangrove island off the Florida coast 70 



analyses of peaty 70 



analyses of unproductive 70 



Sorghum, xiroductioa of sugar from .»,. 30 



