INDEX. 



PllBFACE AND INTRODUCTION. 



AGRICULTURE: PACK. 



Influence of railroads upon rLXIv 



number of horses employed in CLXV 



agricultural associations, societies, history of xm 



agricultural products by States and Territories, for 1850 and I860, compared with population, tables of cxxix 



agricultural products, demand for, increased by manufactures in the west %ML 



great want in American agriculture which occupies the place of the turnip in the English system of rotation . . . LXXVII 



charlatans contrasted with real benefactors in iv 



farmers, interests of, not promoted by government in 



farmers desiring government to abstain from legislation relative to I v 



home consumption, how increased in 



homestead free, by act of Congress vui 



home market, attractive, popular, and honorable in in 



importance of, as a recourse for wealth 1 1 1 



increase of demand stimulating husbandmen to efforts in in 



laws, application of, not beneficial to Ml 



laws, political effect of in 



prosperity of, in proportion to increase of population in 



policy best to pursue in I v 



policy, present, to promote, (loss of time and disappointment) iv 



relation of product- to /oreign markets in in 



short roads to fortune avoided by people engaged in iv 



supply at home, foreign demand for agricultural products in 



saving to government by institution illustrating character of trees and plants v 



in the United States vm-x 



implements of agriculture in use, value of table of x 



labor-saving appliances useful in XI 



labor in United States, scarcity of xn 



war, effect on agriculture xi.m 



drill-husbandry, profit of, demonstrated by John Wynn Baker xm 



number of patented invcni ions for, previous to 1848 xn 



mechanical inventions stimulated by high price of labor in x I 



BARLEY : 



produced in the United States in I860, table of LXVIII 



climate better adapted to production of wheat, than of LXVIII 



superior in England to any other country LXVIII 



total crop in States and Territories in 1860, of .... LXVIII 



raised in New England States in, I860 compared with 1850 LXIX 



raised in Middle States in I860, compared with 18/50 LXIX 



raised in Western States in I860, compared with 1850 LXIX 



raised in Southern States in I860, compared with 1850 i.xx 



raised in Pacific States in 1860, compared with 1850 LXX 



raised in United States in 1860 and 1850, in proportion to population LXX 



culture of LXJU 



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