CORN, 20, 21, 22 growing of bread-corn eastward of the Hudson, 37, 43, 67, 68, 81, 86, 88, 92, 94, 99, 103, 107, 113, 114, 115, 118, 147. GRAIN GROWING--EAST AND WEST--chap. xxviii, 162; hoeing is of no use to Corn, 162; the best and cheapest way to cultivate corn, 162; the fields of the Mississippi Valley are the most productive in the world, 163; the tillage, in some places, seemed susceptible of improvement, 163; the West is the granary of the East, 163; a change imminent, 163; changes since twenty-three years ago when the author visited Illinois, 164; the course the West will ultimately adopt, 164; exhaustion of the soil in New England and Eastern New York, 164; in the Genesee Valley, 165; Eastern Pennsylvania profits by a provident system of husbandry, 165; the States this side of the Delaware will yet have to grow a large share of their breadstuffs, 165; can it be done with profit now, considering, also, if the East has wisely, so largely abandoned grain-growing, 165-9; the places not taken into account, 165; the "Pine Barrens" of New Jersey selected to illustrate the profits of grain-growing in the East, 168; their nature, 168; estimate of expenses thereon, 167; the product anticipated, 167; the favorable conditions the cultivator would enjoy, 168; the money value of his crop, 168; great economy could be achieved in the cost of cultivating, 169; conclusions, 169; also 177, 191, 192, 193, 210, 228, 238, 242, 246-7, 264, 265, 271-2, 290. COTTON, 107, 200. COTTON-GROWERS, Southern, 118. COTTONWOOD, 261. CREDIT, buying a farm on, 25. CROPS, Fall, 97. CURRANTS, 129. DAIRYING, 288. DANA'S MUCK MANUAL, 199. DELAWARE, the State of, 165; the river, 152, 165. DENVER, 264, 277; Pacific Railroad, the, 262. DEPOPULATION, (RURAL)--RURAL DEPOPULATION, chap. xlviii, 286; the alleged decrease in the relative population of rural districts, 286; no increase since 1859 in the number of farmers in the State of New York, 286; probable slight decrease in that of New England, 286; consolidating farms, 286; small farmers are selling out and migrating, 287; reasons therefore, 287; the changed character of the tillage, 287-8; the general use of coal has reduced the demand for labour, 288; labour-saving implements, 288-9; the supposed degeneracy of the New England Puritan stock, 289; the migration from New England, 289-90; the assumption that Americans prefer other pursuits to farming, 291; the rock and bog of New England form a discouraging impediment to agricultural progress, 290; compensation therefor, 291. DIARY, the keeping of one recommended, 31. DICKINSON, Andrew B., 105, 106. DISTRIBUTION (of farm products). _See_ EXCHANGE.