IXDEX. 489 



United States, statistics of butter, cheese, and condensed-milk factories, 



434 

 statistics of farms. 419 



principal crops. 420, 425 

 sugar crop in the United States, 435 

 factories, beet, statistics of, 436 

 production of beet- and cane-, 436 

 temperature of the air, normal mean, 412 

 value of principal farm products, 425 

 veterinary colleges in, 456 

 wages, agricultural, 1 893-1 895, 424 

 wool product, 435 

 Valuation of feeding-stufifs, 20 



manures and fertilizers, 158 

 Value of foreign coins, 409 

 Veal, diagram of cuts, 205 

 Vegetable and fruit garden, a combined, 92 

 Vegetable forcing calendar, a, 93 

 Vegetable seed required per acre, 90 



time of germination and maturity table, 93 

 Vegetables, usual distances for planting, 72 

 V^eterinary colleges, American, list of, 456 

 remedies and doses, 63 

 science, 53 

 Victoria swine, 25 



Village-improvement societies, constitution of, 364 

 Viscogen, 292 

 Vitality of seeds, 113 

 "Wages, agricultural, in the United States, 1 893-1 895, 424 



by the week and the day, table of, 383 

 Wagon tires, wide, effect of, 190 

 Water, acre-foot of, 177 



carrying capacity of pipes, 179 



duty of, 176 



flow through straight pipes, 179 



miiner's inch, 177 



power required for discharge of, 176 



to raise, from deep wells, 180 

 required for cooling milk or cream, quantity, 294 

 right, 176 

 second-foot, 177 

 Watering of milk, detection of, 267 



and skimming, detection of, 268 

 Weather Bureau, the, explanation of fiag signals adopted by, 368 



services, state, list of headquarters of, 370 

 Weeds, 1 16 



noxious, table of, 116 

 Weight of cattle, estimation of, 35 



eggs, loss in, during incubation, 46 

 Weights of poultry, standard, 47 



