INDEX. 



739 



Charter of National Alliance, 62, 63. 



Chavose, Captain L. S., 16, 34. 



CLOVER : 



Hon. B. H., Address of, 253-256. 

 Red, Common, Alsike, 570; White, 

 Dutch, Japan, 571. 



COLORED FARMERS' ALLIANCE: 



Resolutions of greeting, 153; ib., 162; 

 confederation with, 176 ; history of, 288 ; 

 order for exchanges, charter, 289 ; char- 

 ters, state, 290; declaration of purposes, 

 292. 



Commercial Forms, 702-709. 



CONFEDERATION : 



Plan of, 155, 156; with other organiza- 

 tions, 296. 



Conference at Louisville, 321. 



Constitution of National Alliance, 58-61, 

 93, 167-177. 



Cooperation for business purposes, 113, 

 114, 358-370. 



Copyright laws, 722, 723. 



COTTON : 

 States growing, 76; plant, 584. 



Crab-grass, 566. 



Crops, Rotation fertilizers, 526-549. 



Crystallized Grasses, 637. 



Culinary Department, 651-655. 



Daws, S. O., 21, 29,36, 38, 39. 



Deeds, 692. 



DECREES: 



Early Alliance, 16; names of, 29; changes 

 of 1880, 32; reduced to one, 34, 35. 



Department of Agriculture, 605-616. 



Declarations of Purposes, 28, 41, 42, 43, 47. 



E. 



Elections in So. Carolina and Kansas, 147. 

 Egyptian Agriculture, 375. 

 Eleventh Census, the, 121. 

 Emancipation Proclamation, 272. 

 Endorsement of " St. Louis Platform," 156. 

 English Treatise on Husbandry, first, 431. 

 Exchanges, Colored Alliance, 290. 



F. 



FARMERS: 



Congress of, 1875, 9. 298-302. 

 Mutual Benefit Association, 10, 94, 97, 



98, loo, 156, 163, 176, 226-228. 

 Union, 10, 46, 57, 62, 95, 99, 104, 109, 



152, 156, 164, 182, 218-224. 

 And Laborers' Union, 91. 

 Political League, 228, 229. 



FARMS : 



How to buy, 480 ; fences, 485 ; buildings, 

 486, 488, 489; barnyards, 490; roads, 

 491 ; underdraining, 492, 493, 495 ; live- 

 stock, 498; fruits, 511; varieties, 515; 

 how to plant, 516; cultivation, 517 ; prun- 

 ing, 518; small fruits, 519; fertilizers, 

 526 ; grasses, grains, and plants, 550 ; 

 how plants grow, 590 ; fertilizers, and 

 where they come from, 602-604. 



Fertilizers, 526-549. 



Feudal System, the, 2. 



Financial Disaster of 1873, 6. 



First Bond, 21, 22. 



Flower Garden, the, 618-622. 



French Agriculture, 419. 



Fruits, 511-525. 



G. 



Genius of Government, 115. 



German Agriculture, 421. 



German Millet, 565. 



Government Control of Money, 262-271. 



Grama-grass : Mesquite Grass, 568. 



Grange, the, 6, 10, 31, 35, 232-236. 



GRASSES, GRAINS, AND PLANTS: 

 Report of Dr. Vasey, 550 ; grasses for gen- 

 eral culture, 553; history of grass cul- 

 ture, 554; in the United States, 556; in 

 the South, ib.\ permanence of pastures 

 and meadows, 557 ; drainage of grass 

 lands, 558 ; relation of stock to pastures, 

 559; management of the pasture, ib. ; sup- 

 plementary feed, 560; grasses for meadows 

 and pastures, 561 ; mixed grasses for pas- 

 turage, 562 ; time and manner of seeding 

 grass-seed, 563; Bermuda grass, 564; 

 Hungarian grass, German millet, 565; 

 crab-grass, 566; Johnson grass, Mean's 

 grass, ib. ; blue-joint, small reed-grass, 

 567; bunch-grass, ib.\ velvet-grass, vel- 

 vet Mesquite, soft-grass, etc., ib. ; Grama- 

 grass, Mesquite grass, 568 ; buffalo-grass, 

 ib. ; orchard and Kentucky blue-grass, 

 569; red, common, and Alsike clovers, 

 570; white, Dutch, and Japan clovers, 

 Alfalfa, 571; grains and plants, ^.-589; 

 how plants grow, 590-604. 



Grecian Agriculture, 380. 



Greenback Campaign of 1876, 18. 



Growth of the Alliance, 293-297. 



H. 



Historical and Political, 197-335. 

 HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE: 

 See Agriculture. 



