570 



INDEX. 



Bisulphide of carbon for Jngoumoig, grain-moth, 349. 



cabbage Anthomyia, 3:21. 

 grape phylloxera, 329. 



Blood-root, 133. 



sucking Conorhinii8, Professor Lemmou's account of, 414. 

 Blissus leucopteroutt, 31)9. 

 Boll worm, 415. 



Mr. Hunt's remedy for, 416. 

 Botany, Bureau of, work in, 11. 

 Botanist, report of, 123. 



Box psylla, first appearance in America, 410. 



Bkuner, Lawkence, report on insects injurious in Nebraska, 398. 

 Bryobia, 413. 



Buckwheat, estimates of 1883, 424. 

 Buffalo gnat, the Southern, 340. 



Burrowing wasps, as enemies of imported cabbage-worm, 400. 

 Butters, American, analyses of, 65 to 68. 



and their adulteration, 55. 



caseine, 57. 



characteristics of good, 64. 

 curd, 57, 64. 



estimate of water in, 56. 

 manipulation of, 57, 64. 

 methods of collection, 56. 



examination, 56. 

 optical properties of, 65. 

 properties of a good, 66. 

 results of analyses, 61. 

 salt in, 56. 



saturation equivalent of, 58, 65. 

 soluble and insoluble fat acids, 59, 65. 

 specific gravity of the fat of, 64. 

 summary of the analyses of, 62, 63. 



C. 



Cabbage Anthomyia, 319, 320, 321. 

 Osvinis, 322. 



plant louse, 317, 318, 319. 

 insects, a85, 2«9. 



Colorado flea-beetle, 308. 



in Missouri, in 1884, 416. 



potato beetle, 308. 



cut-worms, 289, 



false chinch-bug, 315. 



harlequin cabbage-bug, 309. 



imbricated snout-beetle, 300. 



imported cabbage-worm, 323, 400, 416. 



Rocky Mountain locust, 323. 



tarnished plant-bug, 312. 



wavy-striped flea-beetle, 311. 



Zimmerman's flea-beetle, 301. 

 Calandra oryza>, 34*, 414. 



remot< punctata, 348. 

 Caloptenus differentia I is, 399. 



femur rubrum, 399. 

 spretus, 323, 398, 399. 

 Cane-cutter, the, 46. 



capacity of, 47. 

 Capsus oblineatus, 312,313. 

 Carporapua pomoneUa, 355. 

 Catalpa sphinx, 415. 



Cattle fever, Southern geographical distribution of, 252. 



in North Carolina, 254. 



South Carolina and Georgia, 256. 

 Tennessee, 256, 257, 258. 

 Virginia, 253. 

 Cattle, improvement by breeding, 447, 448. 

 losses of, in 1883-'84, 446. 

 percentage of high grade of, 447. 



