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GENERAL INDEX 



Agriculture 



Alkali reslstiug plants I 424 



American, and foreign trade .... IV 103 



And labor VIII 248 



And population IV 254 



And western population Ill 364 



American and world's produc- 

 tion compared Ill 2 



American farmer of to-day 



(James Wilson) V 12 



American surplus V 37 



American tea V 412 



And the church V 356 



Area and production, statistics 



of V 5 



Area and values vmder irriga- 

 tion V 8 



Artificial selection V 410 



Bacteriology and V 430 



Beef industry, (Garfield, J. R) ... V 174 

 Beet sugar industry. (C. F. Saylor) V 227 

 Botanical science, benefits of .... V 419 

 Boards of trade, influence of .... V 27 

 Botany, problems of American, 



(B. T. Galloway) V 414 



Burbank, Luther, (Hollis W. 



Field) V 105, VII 106 



Bureaus, farmers' V 361 



California, growth of, in V 42 



Cane sugar, (F. G. Freret) V 209 



Capital, value of fixed V 41 



Cattle-feeding, scientific V 10 



Census of 1850 V 36 



Census, eleventh V 52 



Changes m fifty years V 104 



City population, and V 24 



Civil war, and V 379 



Civil war, influence of V 43 



Climate and tree planting V 10 



Clogs in V 47 



Colleges of V 59 



Colleges, congress, and V 405 



Commercial floriculture, (Leroy 



Thomas) V 363 



Cord wood, age of V 431 



Cotton, future demand for, (J. L. 



Watldiis) V 135 



Cotton lands, expansion of V 45 



Cotton machinery, (D. C. 



Roper) V 129 



Cotton seed industry', (C. M. 



Daugherty) V 115 



Cotton seed, appreciation of V 35 



Crop lands, area of V 5 



Crop statistics, total V 5 



Crops on record, first American . . V 21 



Crop values Ill 480 



Crops, relative value of V 12 



Crops in pictures, statistics of ... V 101 



Crops, total value of V 14 



Crops, total value of American . . V S 

 Crops, variety of .Vinerican V 4 



Agriculture — Continued. 



Cut flowers, profits in V 339 



Dairy products, value of V 29 



Dairj-ing, (Henry E. Alvord) V 194 



Debt of, to science V 58 



Defects m American system V 65 



Department of agriculture 



(James Wilson) V 403 



Department of, as an influence . . V 56 

 Department of, indifference of 



farmers to V 59 



Department of, publications of . . V 59 

 Depression of values from '90 to 



'00 V 46 



Earth molten V 1 



Education, influence of V 26 



Education needed V 421 



Education of a farmer V 406 



Electric age of V 441 



Experiment stations V 61 



Experiment stations established . V 414 

 Exports, consumers of Ameri- 

 can V 395 



Exports, determination of V 390 



Exports, early Ill 17 



Exports of 1904 V 389 



Exports, percentages of V 391-2 



Exports, value and quantities 



of different V 391 



Exports, value of V 9 



Europe, exhaustion of V 25 



Farm areas in the west Ill 364 



Farm acreage in various states . . V 38 

 Farm animals, number and 



value of American V 9 



Farm animals, value of V 29 



Farm animals, value of V 47 



Farm area, increase in from 



1850 V 54 



Farm lands, causes of decrease 



of V 39 



Farm lands, center of V 49 



Farm lands, increase of since 



1850 V 99 



Farm property, value of V 40 



Farm values from 1850 V 52 



Farms, acreage of, in 1900 V 99 



Farms, average size of V 37 



Farms, increase in number of .... V 28 



Farms, size of V 28 



Farms, sizes of. by geographical 



divisions V 39 



Fanns, statistics of American .... V 8 



Farms, value of V 29 



Farmer, growing riches of V 12 



Farmers, character of American . V 55 

 Farmers, intellectual improve- 

 ment of V 62 



Farmers' institutes V 360 



Farming in 20th century. (E. P. 



Powell) V 431 



