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Parliament aid to agriculture in America 5 



Parry. C. C, appointment as Botanist 13 



Patent Office, growth of work for agriculture 8 



list of employees on agricultural roll in 1857 9 



Patents, Commissioners, list from early date 8 



Pickering, Timothy, note on share in introduction of Barbary sheep 7 



Pine timber, value after boxing for turpentine 32 



Plants, distribution from propagating gardens 10, 18 



note on value of study of diseases 31 



Pleuropneumonia, beginning of crusadt^ 17 



eradication announced 23 



war 20 



Plimsoll, Mr., note on attitude toward transportation of cattle 23 



Pomology, Division, note on establishment 19 



organization and work 36 



Pork, American, withdrawal of prohibition by Germany 23 



Publications, Division, organization and work 37 



of agricultural statistics, etc 8 



Department, growth 26 



plans of Secretary Rusk 22 



recommendation for sale of annual report 14 



Quarantine of animals, transfer to Department of Agriculture 17 



Rain making, note on experiments 25 



Ramie, suggestion of cultivation 14 



Eappahannock, note on sa icings by Weather Bureau 32 



Read, Senator of South Carolina, response to Washington's suggestion for board 



of agriculture 6 



Representatives, House, action on Washington's suggestion for board of agriculture 6 



Road Inquiry, Office, note on establishment 27 



organization and work 38 



Rush, Richard, note on manual on silk culture and manufacture 7 



Rusk, Jeremiah M., appointment as Secretary; notes on life; work of adminis- 

 tration - 21 



Secretary, estimate of value of Department 32 



Salmon, D. E., establishment of veterinary experiment station 17 



Saunders, William, appointment in Department 10 



improvement of Department grounds 30 



Scale insects, note on importation of parasite enemies 25 



Seed, amount distributed in 1863 10 



Seedless oranges, Bahia, introduction 18 



Seeds and plants, note on early distribution 7 



system of exchange with foreign countries 12 



change in method of distribution 28 



opposition by Secretary Morton to distribution 28 



suggestion of Commissioner Le Due as to distribution 16 



Senate, reply to Washington's suggestion for board of agriculture 6 



Sheep, introduction of Barbary and Spanish breeds 7 



raising, early governmental encouragement 5 



Signal Service of Army, note on appropriation for weather reports 14 



Silk culture, renewal of inquiry 17 



early encouragement to growing 5 



note on manual by Richard Rush 7 



reeling, experiments discontinued 25 



study of question of reeling 19 



Silkworms, note on publication of Count Von Haggi's treatise 7 



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