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THE BOOK OF WHEAT 



Page 



Profit on raising wheat 106 



Protein 27 



Puts 243-244 



Q. 



Quern 264 



R. 



Railroads: 



Discrimination 218-219 



Elevators and 207 



Grain lines 189 



Rail shipments, statistics .... 194-195 



Rain belt in United States 122 



Rainfall in United States 121-123 



Ready-to-eat wheat foods 297-301 



Commercial success of 300 



Composition of 299 



Consumption of 299-300 



Kinds of 298 



Processes of manufacture 298 



Reaper 84-86 



Bell's 85 



Early American 86 



Early English 85-86 



Definition of 84 



Illustration of 306 



Modern self-rake 86 



Use of 86-87 



Red wheat 10 



Regermination 17 



Resistant to climate, Wheat 11 



Rice 2 



Rice as a food 7 



Rice weevil 182 



Ripening 20,21 



Time required 23-24 



River wheat tug, Illustration of . . 191 



Roller milling, Process of 269-270 



Romanow wheat 5 



Roots 11-13, 18 



Root system 12 



Rotation of crops 144-145 



Russian cactus 151-152 



Russian soils 307-308 



Russian thistle 151-152 



Description of 152 



Dispersion of 151 



Extermination of 152 



Rust 162-169 



Black or stem 162 



Crown 162 



Development 166-167 



Dispersion of 165-166 



Distribution of 166 



How damage results 167 



Kinds of 162 



Life history 162-166 



Losses from 167-168 



Red or orange leaf 162 



Remedies 168-169 



Resistance to 45 



Resistant wheat 10 



Resisting varieties 168 



Spores, Growth of 163-164 



Spores, Kinds of 163 



Spores, Viability of 165-166 



Page 

 Rye 2 



Consumption of 7-8 



Food 7 



Production in Russia 309 



Winter 4-5 



S. 



Saddle stones 263 



Salt 140 



Salts and germination 16 



Sawflies 181 



Scotch fife wheat 47 



Scythe 79-80 



Hainault 79 



Use of 79 



Seacoast wheat 49 



Sea level wheat 5 



Seasonal effects 51 



Section of wheat grain 16 



Seed i 51-69 



Advantages of exchange 54-55 



Amount of, per acre 69 



Bed for 65 



Dealers in 53 



Deterioration of 54-55 



Effects of good and poor 52 



Evils of exchange of 55 



Importance of 51 



Importations 56 



Purchase of 51,53 



Wheat for 5 1-56 



Seeders 66-69 



Ancient 68 



Early English 66-67 



Force feed 67,68 



Patents on 67 



Wagon 67 



Width of 68 



Seeding 17, 65-66 



By nature 69 



Depth of 70 



Time of 69-70 



Selection 3, 36-40 



Artificial 36 



Characteristics influenced by. . . 39-40 



Early 37 



Heavy seed 39 



Incidences of 36 



Light seed 38 



Minnesota station 37 



Natural 36, 40 



Results of 37-40 



Self-binding harvester, Illustra- 

 tion of 34, 87, 128 



Self-fertilization 21, 41, 43 



Semi-arid region of U. S.. 121-123, 307 



Semi-hard district 9 



Semolina 295 



Sewage waters as fertilizers 141-142 



Sharlock 153 



Shipments out of country 304 



Shocking 90 



Shorts, Composition of 25 



Shredded Wheat Biscuit 297-298 



Sickle 78-79 



Smut 155-162 



Early remedies 155, 157 



