330 



INDEX. 



general, 79; artesian wells on Ihe 

 prairies, 79 ; -wells in California, Sc ; 

 water as a fertilizer, 80; crops in 

 Virginia suflering from want of ir- 

 rigation, 80-1 ; counsel to farmers on 

 irrigation, 81-2; great profits to be 

 realized by irrigation, 62-3 ; need of 

 irrigation in the Eastern and Mid- 

 dle States considered, 83 ; the prai- 

 rie States after 1900, 83; common 

 objections to irrigation, 84 ; it must 

 become general, 247 ; wells will be 

 sunk for the purpose, 247 ; n Fteam 

 locomotive for the purpose referred 



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ticable everywhere, 260 ; the por- 

 tion of our country which cannot 

 be cultivated without irrigation, 

 260 ; its extent, 260 j its climate, 260; 

 it is spoken or as desert, 261 ; the 

 readiest means of irrigating the 

 plains, 261 ; their extent, 261 ; the 

 .North and South Platte rivers, 261 ; 

 Union Colony, 262; its location, 262; 

 location of Greeley, 362; the first 

 irrigating canal of Union Colony, 

 262 ; branches and ditches there- 

 from, 262-3; how the water is de- 

 flected to it, 263 ; the larger and 

 longer canal, 263; doubts at fust 

 entertained respecting the capaci- 

 ties of the Boil, 264 ; proved base- 

 less, 264 ; products of the soil, 264; 

 the cost of irrigation is not in ex- 

 cess of cultivating without it, 264; 

 demonstration thereof, 265 ; it 

 would pay to expend $ioper acre for 

 irrigating New England grasslands, 

 266. MOKE OF IRRIGATION, chap. 

 Xlvi, 274 ; irrigation of p'.aces bor- 

 dered nv streams referred to, 274 ; 

 the facilities the Platte oflcrs for 

 irrigation, 274-5; results that may 

 be attained, 275; the Plains, 275; 

 obstacles to their cultivation, 275-6; 

 the change that will be yet effected, 

 276 ; liow the plains will be irrigated, 

 276-7; artesian wells, 277-8; the co- 

 operation of railroad companies 

 anticipated, 278; rain Increases as 

 {settlements are multiplied, 278; the 

 parmanent character of the Plains. 

 279 ; tracts needing irrigation in the 

 East, 270; summing up of the au- 

 thor's views on, 315-6-7. 



IRON, 242. 



ITALY (Northern), 171. 



KANSAS, 25, 26, 167, 249, 261, 264, 289. 

 KANSAS PACIFIC, the railroad, 262. 

 KENNEBEC, the valley of the, 165; 



the river, 279. 

 KENTUCKY, 50. 

 KIT CARSON, the, 277. 



LABORERS, Farm Dearth of employ- 

 ment for, in winter, a great and 

 growing evil, 303. 



LAKES, the Northern, 165. 



LANCASTER COUNTY, Penn., no. 



LANCASHIRE (England), 76. 



LAND. See FAKMING. 



LANDS, public, 46. 



LARD, 164. 



LIEBIG'S agricultural chemistry, 159. 



LIME, 104; as a fertilizer, see FEBTILI- 



ZER8, COMMERCIAL ; OlSO, 104, I IO, 1 1 1 , 



120; oyster shell, 121, 122, 128 ; use in 



preparing foran orchard, 142, 143, 147, 



167, 174, 192, 211, 232-3, 235, 306, 317,318. 



LOCUST, the, tree, 53, 541 55. 6. 134. 2'S, 



LOMB^RDY, 74, 75, 76. 



LONDON, 269. 



LONDONDERRY (Ireland), 171 ; New 



Hampshire, 171. 

 LONG ISLAND, N. Y., 166, 251, 315 ; 



Sound, 172. 

 LONG'S PEAK, 262. 

 LORING. Dr. George B. (of Mass.), 193. 

 LUMBERING How rocks in creeks are 



removed by a lumberman, 217, 



MACHINES, agricultural, 225. 



MAGGIORE, Lake, 75. 



MAGNESIA, 2 . 



MAIDSTONE (England), 89. 



MAINE, 125, 171, 232. 



MANGANESE, in. 



MANGOLDS, 271. 



MANUFACTURES, 164, 243. 



MANURE, 95. 



MAPLE, 287. 



MAPES, Professor, 16, 85, 114, 128. 



MARL, 109, 120, 122, 142, 167. See also 

 FERTILIZERS, COMMERCIAL. 



MARTINEAU, Miss, 187. 



MARYLAND, 166, 251 ; Eastern, 315. 



MASSACHUSETTS, 171, 193. 



McCORMICK, C., 86. 



MEATS, 150, 164, 167, 200, 201 ; meat will 

 be ultimately conveyed in refriger- 

 ating cars, 220, 266. 



MECHANICS, 243. 



MELON. 226. 



MEXICO, 1 72. 



MICHIGAN, State of, 163; Lake, 156. 



MIDDLE STATES, 139. 



MILK, 115, 167, 171. 



MILLS, 249, 250. 



MINNEHAIIA, the, 285. 



MINNESOTA, 25, 26, 36, 37, 163, 164, 168, 

 206, 249. 289. 



MISSOURI, valley of the, 20 ; State of, 

 168; the river, 260, 261, 279. 



MISSISSIPPI, valley of the upper, 20 ; 

 38 ; valley of the, 45, 69, 103 ; the 

 river, 163. 



MOLE PLOAV, the, 72. 



MONMOUTH. N. J., 166. 



MORMONS, tree planting by, 46. 



MORTGAGE, bn\ ing land on, 31. 



MIDDLE STATES, pasturing m, 19, 25, 

 69. 142, 179, 204, 215. 



MUCK, 55, 109, 116, 120; use in prepar- 

 ing for an orchard, 142. MCCK 

 How TO UTILIZE IT, chap, xxi, 124; 

 chemists will yet be iible to deter- 

 mine the value of nil kinds, 124 ; use 

 of muck profitable, 124; the r.U- 

 thor's trial of it, 124 ; how ewair.p 

 muck forms, 124-5 ! Its vast extent, 

 125 ; little benefit derived from ap- 

 plying it directly, 125; the true 

 course to adopt to secure good re- 

 turns, 126-7 ; practical evidence of 



