ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 



Aberdeen, Gordon's College, 191 ; daily schools, 192. 



Adulteration of manure and seeds, 67. 



Agassiz, 204 note. 



Agricultural Gazette, 97 note. 



Agricultural labourers, numbers in Great Britain, 47 ; wages, in Russia, 



74 note. 



Agricultural machinery in Russia, 14 ; as a petty trade, 175. 

 Agriculture, 40 seq. ;' additional hands periodically required, 182; in 



Belgium, 55-59, 87, 94 ; in the Channel Islands, 88-92 ; in China, 



102; in France, 53-55, 72; in Great Britain, 43-53, 59; in Italy, 94; 



in Japan, 102, 238 ; in the United States, 75-82 ; tropical (Semler's 



work), 239 note. 

 Aldershot, 95. 

 Alenon, weaving, 145. 

 Alsace, spinning mills, 224. 

 American competition, 75. 



Amiens, industries, 143 ; market-gardening, 108. 

 Anjou, province of, fruit culture, 107. 

 Annales agronomiques, 92 note. 

 Annuaire statistique de la Belgique, 56 note. 

 Ansted, The Channel Islands, 230, 232-234. 

 Applied science, a misleading name, 208. 

 Arithmetic, present waste of time in teaching it, 196. 

 Armstrong, Sir William, shipbuilding in Japan, 28, 42. 

 Art and handicraft, 210. 

 Atwood's machine, 197. 

 Augsburg, spinning mills, 224. 

 Australia, 34. 



Austria, mining and textiles, 225. 

 Austria-Hungary, growth of industries, 22. 



B., Mr., greenhouse, 235. 



Backbarrow, 136. 



Baden, spinning mills, 224. 



Baines, Edward, Yorkshire, Past and Present, 135. 



Ballet, Horticulture, etc., 82, 104, 109, no, 240; in the United States, 



82. 



Barfleur, 105. 



Barral, Dictionary of Agriculture, 64, 93, 94. 

 Basel, silks, 36. 



Bashford, Mr., greenhouses in Jersey, 113. 

 Baudrillart, on the agricultural populations of Anjou, 107; of Normandy, 



