37th Congress, 3d Session House of Representatives Ex. Doc. No. 78

REPORT
of the
COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE
for
THE YEAR 1862.




WASHINGTON:
Government Printing Office
1863.



Table of Contents

Beginning
Establishment of the United States Department of Agriculture
Main Report. Isaac Newtown.
The International Exhibition of 1862.  Prof. J.W. Hoyt
SOME OUTLINES OF THE AGRICULTURE OF MAINE.   Samuel L. Boardman.
FLORIDA. Soil, Climate and Productions.  L.D. Stickney.
The Wheat Plant.  Lewis Bollman
Wheat-Growing in New Hampshire.  Levi Bartlett
Cotton  
Flax and Flax-Cotton  
Tobacco Culture  
Imphee and Sorghum Culture, and Sugar and Sirup Making.  J.H. Smith
Cultivation of the Sorghum  L. Bollman
Shelter and Protection of Orchards.
Wild Flowers  Thomas Gardner
Descriptions of Leading Popular Varieties of the Apple and Pear. author unnamed. pp. 163-193.
Climatology of American Grape Vines. James S. Lippincott. pp. 194-208.
The Grape. George Campbell. pp. 209-
On the Culture of Sweet Potatoes  J.C. Thompson
Remarks on the Physiology of Breeding  S.L. Goodale
Condition and Prospects of Sheep Husbandry in the United States
Sheep Husbandry in the West  Samuel P. Boardman
Sheep on the Prairies  J.B. Grinnell
The Kerry Breed of Cattle  Sanford Howard
On Stall-Feeding Cattle and Sheep  Joseph Harris
Beef and Beef-Cattle of the West  W.W. Corbett
Remarks on the Horse  Sanford Howard
Raising Poultry and Eggs for Market  A New Englander
Poultry  D.S. Heffron
ENTOMOLOGY and its relations to the vegetable productions of the soil, with reference to both the destructive and beneficial insects.  S.S. Rathvon
Additional Observations on the Ailanthus Silk-Worm of China  John G. Morris, D.D.
The Manufacture of Maple Sugar  C.T. Alvord
Flax-Cotton; Its Adaptation to Cotton Machinery  Hon. Charles Jackson
Farm Implements and Machinery  J.J. Thomas
On the Manufacture of Flour  William Warder
Coal Oil  J.P. Lesley
Marbles of Rutland County, Vermont  S.M. Dorr
Health of Farmers' Families  Dr. W.W. Hall
The Preservation of Food  L.C. Loomis, M.D.
Timber on the Prairies  Samuel Edwards
The Agriculture of Morocco  V.D. Collins
Report of the Chemist of the Department of Agriculture  Charles M. Wetherill
Report of the Superintendent of the Garden Attached to the Department of Agriculture  William Saunders
Reports and Tables of Agricultural Statistics  
The Agriculture of California  
Agricultural Exports of Thirty-Seven Years  
Donations to the Department of Agriculture From September 1, 1862 to June 30, 1863  
INDEX


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