INDEX. 



Aborigines, agriculture of, 444-448. 



ADDRESSES : 



Of Mr. G. Campbell of Kansas, 10; of 

 S. O. Daws, 36 ; official call of Dr. Ma- 

 cune, 50; messages of President Macune, 

 67, 78; of President Jones, 99; of Presi- 

 dent Macune, 105 ; on monetary system, 

 124; of President Polk, 139; of Isaac 

 McCracken, 202; ib., 212; by J. A. Tetts 

 of Alexandria, La., 218; statement of Mr. 

 F. P. Root of Brockport, N.Y., 230; sec- 

 tionalism, by Hon. B. H. Clover, 253; of 

 Colonel Robert Beverley, 298 ; by Presi- 

 dent Polk, 464; report of Dr.George Vasey, 

 botanist, Department of Agriculture, 550; 

 James M. Swank on origin, ib. t 605. 



Advent of Trades-unions, i. 



AGRICULTURE : 



Organizations, i ; ancient situation in 

 Europe, 2 ; the Mayflower " compact," 3 ; 

 economic conditions, 4; societies for po- 

 litical and other purposes, 4, 5 ; effects of 

 the Civil War, 5 ; Patrons of Husbandry 

 appear in 1867, 6; events leading up to 

 the Farmers' Congress of 1875, 8, 9. 



History of, 371 ; chronologically con- 

 sidered, 373; in Egypt, 375; among the 

 Jews and other nations of antiquity, 377 ; 

 of the Greeks, 380 ; among the Romans 

 from second century B.C. to the fifth cen- 

 tury A.D., 383 ; Roman, in respect to gen- 

 eral science and art, 413 ; extent in Roman 

 provinces and its decline, 415; in Italy 

 during the Middle Ages, 417 ; of France 

 from the fifth to the seventeenth century, 

 419 ; of Germany and other northern states 

 from the fifth to the seventeenth century, 

 421 ; in Britain, ib., 422 ; in Britain during 

 the Anglo-Saxon dynasty, ib., after the 

 Norman Conquest, 424 ; in Britain from 

 the thirteenth century to the time of Henry 

 VIII. ,428; from the time of Henry VIII. 

 to the Revolution of 1688, 430; in the 

 United States, 444; of the Indians, ib. ; 

 Spanish colonial, 448; Puritan English 

 colonists, 449; in the Cavalier English 



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colonies, 454 ; among the French colonists, 

 458 ; during the Revolutionary Period, 461. 

 The Farm and Farm Buildings, 477 ; 

 barnyards, 490 ; farm roads, 491 ; under- 

 draining, 492 ; farm drainage, 493 ; live- 

 stock, 498-510. 



Fruits, Planting, 511 ; cultivation, 512; 

 apples in the nursery row, 513 ; apple 

 orchard, 514; picking, grading, and pack- 

 ing apples, 518 ; small fruits, 519-525. 

 Fertilizers, 526-549. 

 Grasses, Grains, and Plants, 550-589. 

 Department of, 605 ; history, /A-6i6. 

 Agricultural Wheel, the, 10, 64, 73, 77, 80, 



88, 89-91, 93-95, 100, 182, 197-215. 

 Alfalfa, 571. 

 ALLIANCE: 



Degree of capturing a horse thief 16 ; 

 insurance proposed, 87, 166; demands, 

 149, 150, 295 ; of the Northwest, 133, 225, 

 226 ; of colored farmers, 288. 

 Articles of Agreement, 692. 

 Autumn Leaves, 636. 



B. 



Baggett, W. T., 293. 



Bailey, 575. 



Bedrooms, 642-646. 



Bermuda Grass, 564. 



Beverley, Robert (Colonel), 298. 



Bills of Sale, 692. 



Blythe's Book, 441. 



Black Belt, the, 274. 



Blue-joint : small red-grass, 567. 



Bonds and taxation, 268. 



Bridal Flowers, preservation of, 636. 



British Agriculture, 422, 424, 428, 430. 



Brothers of Freedom, the, 216-218. 



Buckwheat, 581. 



Buffalo-grass, 568. 



Bunch-grass, 567. 



Business efforts of the Alliance, 355-370. 



C. 



Campbell, G., 10. 

 Chattel Mortgages, 693. 



