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Fiber, mohair and -wool, comparison, 1901, 273. 

 plant in Texas, discovery, 1901, 108. 

 plants, American, studies, 1901, 28; 1903, 34. 

 diseases, 1904, 586; 1905, 610. 



See also Cotton diseases, 

 experiments in Porto Rico and Hawaii, 1903, 90; 1904, 103. 

 investigations, remarks, 1904, 50. 

 like hemp, note, 1901, 541. 

 yield, uniformity in length and strength, 1902, 379, 380, 381. 

 Fibers, animal, exports, 1902, 862; 1903, 691; 1904, 732; 1905, 773. 

 See also Silk; Wool; Hair, 

 hard, Manila, sisal, New Zealand hemp, mauritius, istle, discussion, 1903, 394- 



398. ' 



plant, commercial, principal, article by Lyster H. Dewey, 1903, 387-398. 

 raw, extent of use and importation in United States; classification, ]903 387 

 soft, flax, hemp, and jute, 1903, 390-394. 

 statistics. See Cotton; Wool, etc. 

 vegetable, imports, statistics, 1903, 683; 1905, 764. 

 See also Cotton; Hemp, etc. 

 Field crops, damages by meadow mice, 1905, 368, 



data, miportant, 1901, 692, 693; 1902, 755-757. 

 diseases, review, 1901, 670; 1902, 717-718; 1905, 606. 

 insects injurious, study, 1905, 81. 



seed, quantity to sow per acre, 1901, 692-694; 1902, 755-757. 

 engineering, suggestions in drainage, 1902, 242. 

 mice. See Mice. 



operations, Bureau of Soils, publication of advance sheets, 1903, 62. 

 peas, Canadian, seed, growing and handling, 1901, 242. 



suggestion for improvement by breeding, 1901, 223. 

 study of soils by farmer, 1903, 445. 

 trials for dogs in hunting bobwhite, 1903, 200. 

 work of Bureau of Soils, western division, 1901, 44. 

 road construction, cooperative, remarks, 1903, 99. 

 Field-crop insects, farm practice in control, article by F. M. Webster, 1905, 465-476. 

 Fig fertilizing insect, discussion, 1902, 83. 



introduction, 1905, 77. 

 work, 1903, 74. 

 protection in cold regions, methods, 1901, 438. 

 Smyrna, establishment of orchards in United States, 1901, 96. 

 introduction into California, remarks, 1901, 673. 

 production in California, note, 1904, 82. 

 Filaria immitis, transmission to dogs by mosquitoes, 1905, 155. 

 Filariasis, disease, mosquitoes as carriers, 1901, 190. 

 Filatures, establishment, relation to silk culture, 1903, 140, 141. 

 Filipinas, Real Compaflia, character and operations, remarks, 1901, 521. 

 Filler system in peach orchards, remarks, 1902, 609-610. 

 tobacco districts, investigations, 1902, 75. 



production and value in 1901, 1903, 66. 

 tobaccos, supply and prices, 1904, 435. 

 Filtration, effect upon pollution of water by algse, 1902, 184. 

 Finch, house, enemy of fruit grower, 1901, 109. 



or linnet, injury to fruit, and nature of food, 1904, 246-248. 

 Fir, red, use for telephone cross-arms, 1905, 455. 

 Fire, losses, weather records in suits, 1903, 308. 

 rule in logging contracts, note, 1901, 474. 

 Fires, forest, causes and injury, note, 1901, 475. 



investigations by Bureau of Forestry, 1903, 52. 

 1904, note, 1904, 60. 

 relation of insects, 1903, 76. 



review for year, 1902, 724; 1903, 561; 1904, 592; 1905, 642. 

 See also Forest. 

 Firewood, production from brush land in Nebraska, 1901, 210. 



rules lor cutting, in work at Sewanee, Tenn., 1901, 474. 

 Firing woods of the range in the western mountains, 1901, 346. 

 Fish, packing, use of cotton-seed oil, note, 1901, 287. 



preserved, value for food as compared with fresh fish, 1902, 394. 



use against mosquito, note, 1901, 183. 



value and use as food, discussion, 1902, 393-395. 



