XII INDEX. 



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Sheep, diseases of / 128 



in Oregon 521 



bnsbandry, p:ood 320 



in Pennsylvania « 93 



llnke in 517 



Snow, early, in Utah 4S7 



elfect of, on the temperature of the soil beneath it 239 



Silk cocoona 33 



culture in Utah 4feS» 



in Kansas 458 



goods, test for 445 



raising in California 3-M 



worm eggs, hatching at will 31 



regulating the hatching of 14(5 



worms, Delprino's mode of treating P6 



success in growing 521 



Societies, agricultural, new. --^ 52*2 



Soil, a shifting, grasses for fixing 223 



benefit of muck and lime on .sandy 344 



improvement of, by green manuring 461 



influence of drought on 344 



relation of local diseases to the nature of the 393 



temperature of the 310 



the black, of Kussia 501 



Soils, absorbent power of 20 



difference in capacity of, for absorbing and retaining heat 373 



effect of commercial fertilizers in cold 462 



function of potassium in 237 



influence of vegetable mold on 373 



power of, in absorbing gases 29 



production of nitrogen compounds in 309 



South Carolina, clover in 399 



the time to sow wheat and clover in 487 



Sows, how to prevent, from devouring their pigs 237 



Sparrows, English, in Australia 398 



Specialties, agricultural, in North Carolina 398 



Spectroscope, the, in testing the purity of wines 81 



Splenetic fever 123 



Statistics, agricultural, of Boone County, niiuois 15G 



Ireland 496 



Jeftersou Coirnty, West Virginia 89 



Steam cultivation in Europe 99, 392 



culture in Scotland .■ 459 



Steam-plow, the Hyde 321 



plowing in England 32 



power, experiment in plowing by , 517 



Steel, chromium 378 



Stock breeding 342 



movements at Chicago 402 



raising 342 



sales in Kentucky 522 



thoroush-bred in Nova Scotia •- 517 



trade of Buttalo 396 



Streams sensitive to sound 446 



Striped cucumber-beetle, remedy for 24 



Stubble, constituents of - 311 



Sugar and fruit in Southeastern Louisiana 95 



beets in California 345 



beet, the, in Sweden 133 



cane, condition of ,. 275 



conversion of, with glucose, by light 86 



deterioration of 211 



tine crop of .• 164 



importation of 238 



culture of, in Louisiana 238,239 



increased consumption of 375 



refining, use of caustic barytes in 25 



Suint, utilization of 234 



Sulphur 44 1 



in mineral coal 138 



native 504 



Swamp lands in California 199 



land, reclamation of 18 



Sweden, co-operative dairies in 452 



Swine, diseases of 130 



Swiss school of milk production and management 162 



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Tappahanuock wheat in Ohio 90 



Tea, adulteration of 34 



Carolina, {Ilex cassine) 20 



culture in Japan 2S6 



growing in India 240 



in G eorgia 31 



plant, growing from seeds "''^ 



Temperature of the soil 310 



