INDEX. 



Page. 



Accounts and Disbursements, Division, organization and work 36 



Adams, President, note on introduction of rare plants and seeds 7 



Agricultural colleges, law donating lands 47 



for endowment 50 



Society, United States, activity for establishment of Department.. 9 



Agriculture, board, early efforts for establishment 6, 7 



British board, establishment 6 



composition of society recommended by House of Representatives. 6 



Department, apjioin tment of early officials 10 



bureaus, division, and offices 33-39 



cost and value to the country 30-32 



of exhibit at Columbian Exhibition 27 



divisions under Commissioner Watts 13 



law for change in rank 42 



establishment 41 



objects 41 



organization and work 9-28 



raised to first rank 20 



recommendation as to new building 16 



work as outlined by Commissioner Loring 16 



early governmental aid 5-7 



first appropriation by Congress 8 



growth of work in Patent Office 8 



notes on condition at beginning of Department work 30 



Agro.stology, Division, formation 26 



organization and work 38 



Alaska, attention to possibilities of agriculture 20 



Alvord, H. II., chief of Dairy Division, note 27 



American cattle, inspection in England 23 



representatives abroad, work for agriculture 7 



Animal diseases, investigation 15 



Industry Bureau. {See Bureau of Animal Industry.) 



Apiculture, study 19 



Appropriations and disbursements, 1839 to 1897, summary of 67 



for Department 53-68 



savings under Secretary Morton 28 



Arboretum on Department grounds, construction 30 



Artesian wells, study of irrigation and iinderflow 24 



Atlanta Exposition, additions to museum 29 



Atwater, W. O., supervision of nutrition investigations 27 



Bahia seedless oranges, introduction 18 



Barbary sheep, note on introduction 7 



Beet-sugar inquiry, suggestion by Commissioner Xewtou 11 



Beets, note on analyses as to sugar producing 17 



Berkley, Mass., memorial for board of agriculture ■. 7 



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