12 INDEX TO YEAEBOOKS, 1901-1905. 



Apples, scald, as injury in storage, 1902, 25. 



shipment to London and Paris, 1903, 40. 

 shipping, 1903, 555-556. 



storage quickly after picking, importance, 1903, 233. 

 temperature for keeping, remarks, 1903, 230. 

 vagaries of buyers, 1904, 420. 



varieties, influence of cold storage on commercial values, 1903, 235. 

 resistance to sun scald, 1902, 246. 

 valuable for conmiercial purposes, 1901, 596. 

 wax-like, demand, 1904, 425^26. 



winter, shipments to foreign markets, remarks, 1904, 43. 

 Apple-scab fungus, susceptibility of Mcintosh apple, 1901, 384. 

 Apple-storage business, magnitude, 1903, 228. 



Appointment clerk. Department of Agriculture, duties, 1901, 611; 1902, 661; 1903, 509; 



1904, 339; 1905, 563. 

 office, records, remarks of Secretary, 

 1902, 123. 

 Appropriation, Porto Rican, for experiment station, 1904, 102. 



Appropriations, Department of Agriculture, 1901,614; 1902,664; 1903,513; 1904,543; 



1905, 567. 

 remarks by Secretary, 1902, 122; 1904, 

 115; 1905, 89. 

 for free delivery of rural mails, 1902, 746. 

 roads. State, summary by M. O. Eldridge, 1904, 610-612. 

 State, for agricultural colleges, remarks, 1904, 90. 

 Apricot, diseases, 1904, 583; 1905, 604. 

 Apricots, protection in winter, note, 1901, 439. 

 Arbor day for several States, table, 1903, 583. 

 Arboretum, Arlington farm, remarks, 1903, 42. 

 Argas miniatus, transmission of chicken disease, 1905, 165. 



Argentina, agricultural development, article by Frank W. Bicknell, 1904, 271-286. 

 animals, number and breeds of sheep, 1904, 277-278. 

 benefits from alfalfa growing, 1904, 278-279. 

 corn, increase in production for feed, 1904, 283-284. 

 dairy industry, 1904, 278. 

 difficulties of small farmer, 1904, 285-286. 

 farming, increase in importance, 1904, 280. 

 flax, fruit, cotton, and tobacco, 1904, 284-285. 

 freight rates, note, 1904, 281. 

 irrigation and rainfall, 1902, 636. 

 shipments of chilled beef to England, 1904, 277. 

 stock shipments, 1904, 275-276. 



wheat production, yield and milling, 1904, 279-280, 282. 

 Arid farming, study and improvement, 1905, 421. 

 regions, crop rotation, remarks, 1902, 521. 



drifting of soils by winds, note, 1903, 239. 

 evaporation, variation with rainfall, 1903, 281. 

 light soil, ease of smoothing for irrigation, note, 1903, 241. 

 root system of plants, note, 1902, 69. 

 soils study, 1905, 69. 

 use of barn manure, caution, 1902, 530. 

 Arizona, alkali lands, experiments, 1904, 73. 



Black Mesa, management of sheep, 1901, 341. 

 conditions for growing Egyptian cotton, note, 1902, 230. 

 date growing, 1901, 37; 1904, 31. 



orchard, cooperative work, remarks, 1902, 33. 

 Experiment Station, report on sugar contents of beets, 1901, 41. 

 irrigation, public control, 1901, 680. 

 rainfall, amount and type, 1902, 641. 

 soils, areas surveyed, 1905, 618. 

 tree pest investigation, note, 1904, 83. 

 winter irrigation, remarks, 1905, 434. 

 Arlington farm improvements, remarks, 1901, 33; 1902, 30; 1903,41; 1904, 51. 

 Arkansas, cotton consumption, notes; statistics, 1903, 475,476. 



diversified farming, article by D. A. Brodie, 1905, 207-212. 



