1096 



Index, 



V\QH. 



Rat-proof liou3cs 21)6 



lleaiiing, new method of tenching . 832 



lieflectefl sunlight in photographj . 901 



Kefraction, double 871 



Keligion, fears about 217 



Report of the board of trustees. ... 1 



managers.. 11 

 committee on admission 



of members 5 



committee on agriculture 6 



finance ... 4 



library ... 9 

 in a n u fac- 

 turos and 



machinriy. 7 



judges at exhibition. 54 to 114 



Resins, researches on 904 



Respiration 250 



Rhae plant 043 



Rhubarb, is it poisonous 41.") 



leaves, fatal to hogs 20.ji 



Richardson, Brittain, address by . . . 183 



Road steamers, successful 976 



Rocks in lields 780 



Roofs for buildings 527 



Roots, coal gas does not injure .... 1003 



nutritive value of common. . 954 



Rubber, contraction of, by heat. . . . 870 



Ruler parallel, new 972 



s. 



Salt as a manure 025, 822 



for stock . 015, G73 



soiutiona, temperature of 1003 



Saw dust 527 



as a fertilizer 466 



Saw, endless chain 872 



Scab in cheep 728 



Science and the Bible 207 



the battle-fields of 199 



Scifiatific conceptions 261 



lectures,! to YII.. 199 to 291 



Sciopticon, the 892 



Scrap book for farmers 727 



Screw and paddle wheel 830 



Sea, instrument for sounding the . . 896 



972 



SoiSimentary drifts, lunar 819 



Seed, choice, for choice crops 725 



improvement of 575 



saving good 447 



wheat, how much to the acre 535 

 573 



SeedB, vegetable 551 



Sewing machines, a spring to drive 894 



improvement for 1032 



repoit on 54 



Shale, pulverized, a pest destroyer. 444 



Sbampooiiing apparatus 998 



Sheep, improving the merino 732 



salt for 763 



shearing by macliinery 537 



Shin<;-lps, how to j)reserve . .' 402 



Sliip bottoms, to prevent o.xidalion 



of iron 882 



Paob 



Ship canal, proposed 979 



leakage, alarm 866 



Shipp, H A., papers by 590, 643 



Silk Industry of tlie L^nited States. 183 



Silks, cause of moisture in 903 



Silk worms that feed on oak and 



ailanthus leaves 701 



Smith, Prof J. V. C, papers by 338, 558 



Smoke consuming furnace. . . . 881, 886 



Smut in wheat 463, 469, 498 



Snails 467 



Snakes 225 



Sodium for matclies 845 



Boiling in summer 480 



Steel, tempering of 961 



Steci-, the heaviest 778 



Stereoscope, magnetic 1080 



refracting 1073 



Stetsfm, T. D., paper by 938 



Stevens, Prof. R. P., paper Ijy 981 



Stock, care of young 729 



duty on imported 643, 666 



Stone, preservation of 976 



new artificial 814 



Storms 920, 924 



Stoves for burning vapors 831 



Strawberries, exhibition of 380 



lecture on 392 



mulching 651 



seedlings, how grown 880 



Seth Boynton'a 381 



Southern 335 



the Tribune 407 



Wilson 481 



Strawberry runners 408 



Sugar, fiuorilicic for refining 884 



beet 430 



theSilesian 530 



maple, 293,294, 740 



tree 467 



l)roduct, transportation of. . . 935 



Sulpliides, metallic, and aqxia regia.. 843 



Sulphuric acid 770 



Sulphur, solubility of, iji coal oils. . 868 



Sumac 478, 793 



Sundials 844 



Sunflowers 490 



as a preventative of inter- 

 mittent fevers 869 



Soils, arable condense gases 1011 



from tlic far west 559 



preparation and use of 153 



Solar coraria 891 



Solutions, tint of measured 1055 



Sorghum as fodder 796 



syrups, report on 553 



or sorgo syrup 523 



Sound, heard fifty miles 893 



Southern travel, notes on 409 



Southern staples, a show of 578 



South, notes of a journey to the. . . 384 



Sowing wheat, time of 573 



Spectra, metallic and solar 954 



Spectroscope, pocket 857 



reversion 1013 



