Temperatures injurious to plants, 80 



for preserving horticultural products, 81 

 Testing milk and other dairy products by Babcock's method, 224 

 Tests of dairy breeds at American experiment stations, 209 

 Tests of dairy breeds at British Dairy Farmers' Assoc, 212 



World's Columbian Exposition, 210 

 Thermometer scales, comparisons of, 355 

 Thoroughbred horse, the, 19 

 Tile-draining land, reasons for, 139 



pipe of main drain, size required, 141 

 Tiles, number required per acre, table showing, 140, 141 



of acres drained by, of different diameters and per 

 cent grade, 142 

 size required, 140, 141 

 Tires, wide, effect of, 162 

 Tractive force required for carriages, 157 



of horses at different speeds, 158 

 effect of inclination on, 159 

 surface on, 160 

 Trade values of fertilizing ingredients, 137 

 Tree-planting, distance table, 116 

 Trees, number on an acre, 113 



Uuited States, agricultural experiment stations in, 408 

 imports and exports, 1897-1898, 393 

 schools and colleges, 404 

 wages, 1893-1895, Z7^ 

 apiarian industry, importance of, 392 

 area and population, 367 



areas of appropriated, vacant, and reserved land in, 373 

 cereal products, principal, 1850-1890, 381 

 comparison of leading industries, 372 



cost per acre of raising wheat, corn, and cotton, 1893, 382 

 crops, principal, 381 

 dairy schools, 407 , 



statistics for 1890, 385 

 Department of Agriculture, organization, 400 

 educational institutions, 402 

 farming population, ^72 

 fertilizer industry, 399 



imports and exports, 1896, 399 

 number and value of farm animals, 1870-1895, 387 

 of farms in, and their value, 373 

 pure-bred cattle, 1898, 387 

 poultry and egg product, 18S0 and 1890, 392 

 precipitation, normal, 371 



product and value of principal crops, 1898, 381 

 production of honey and beeswax, 392 

 soils, analyses of, 124 



