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INDEX 



Profit-and-loss in dairying, 360. 

 Propagation of crops, 130, 131, 132. 

 Proteopteryx deludana, 327. 

 Prunes, weight, 540. 

 Prussiate of potash, 254. 

 Pseudococcus calceolarias, 333 ; citri, 



323 ; sp., 303. 



Pseudoperonospora cubensis, 270. 

 Pseudopeziza medicaginis, 262. 

 Psila rosae, 302. 

 Psoroptes communis, 440. 

 Psylla, 327. 

 Pteris, 189. 

 Puccinia asparagi, 265 ; chrysanthemi, 



268 ; coronata, 274 ; malvacearum, 



273 ; maydis, 269 ; pruni-spinosae, 



279. 



Pulleys, 498. 

 Pulse of animals, 344. 

 Pumping by windmills, 494. 

 Pumpkin, diseases, 280 ; fertilizer for, 



74. 



Pumps, capacity of, 499, 500. 

 Purity of seed, 100. 

 Putty for glazing, 201. 

 Pyrethrum powder, 297. 

 Pythium deBaryanum, 260. 



Quack-grass, 225, 231. 



Quantity of seed per acre, 92. 



Quevenne readings, 447, 449. 



Quicklime, 28. 



Quin, on preserving flowers, 547. 



Quince, diseases, 280; fertilizer for, 



74; insects, 330; storing, 147; 



weight, 540. 



Quincunx planting, 123. 

 Quincy, on soiling, 134. 



Rabbit, milk of, 236, 238, 444. 



Racing horses, 357. 



Radiation for glass, 196. 



Radish, diseases, 280 ; fertilizer for, 



75 ; insects, 330 ; packages, 171 ; 



under glass, 190. 

 Radium, 24. 

 Railroad worm, 306. 

 Raisins, 529. 

 Rams, hydraulic, 503. 

 Rape seed, weight, 540. 

 Raspberries, dried, 529 ; to preserve 



for exhibition, 555; weight, 540; 



diseases, 281 ; fertilizer for, 7 



insects, 330. 



Rat, 234 ; gestation, 342, 343. 

 Rations for animals, 409, 410, 413 



for poultry, 372. 

 Rawl and Conover, silos, 473. 

 Raw materials of fertilizers, 46. 

 Rawson, quoted, 106. 

 Rayner, on windmills, 494. 

 Reaumur scale, 527. 

 Reddick on fungicides, 252 ; on plan 



diseases, 259. 



Red-spider, 304, 323, 328, 336. 

 Red-top, weight, 538. 

 Registry, advanced, 345. 

 Regolith, 29. 

 Reindeer, milk of, 443. 

 Renovated butter, 455. 

 Resin and fish-oil, 298. 

 Resin-sol-soda-sticker, 258. 

 Resin waxes, 512. 

 Rhagoletis pomonella, 306. 

 Rhizoctonia, sp., 260, 267, 274. 

 Rhodites radicum, 331. 

 Rhodium, 24. 

 Rhubarb, insects, 331 ; under glass, 



190 ; weight, 540. 

 Rice, diseases, 281 ; weight, 538. 

 Rice, on poultry farms, 381. 

 Richmond, on milk, 443, 447. 

 Rideal, on sewage, 90. 

 Road-drags, 485, 487. 

 Roberts, on horse's teeth, 339; on 



manures, 85, 86, 87 ; on soil, 34. 

 Roofs for greenhouses, 199. 

 Root-crops, 140. 

 Root-gall, 303. See Crown-gall. 

 Roots, composition, 28 ; storing, 147. 

 Root-worm of grape, 320. 

 Ropes, strength of, 481. 

 Rose, 198 ; diseases, 281 ; insects, 



331 ; scoring, 179. 

 Rose blooms, to keep fresh, 550. 

 Rose-chafer on bug, 308, 322. 

 Rose, on motor power of stream, 



502. 



Rosette of peach, 276. 

 Ross, on dairying, 453, 455, 456, 471. 

 Rotation for plant diseases, 253 ; for 



ticks, 435. 



Rothamsted, quoted, 30. 

 Rot of potatoes, 279. 



