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INDEX 



PAGE 

 Peas (continued) 



varieties 229 



Pedigrees in seeds 80 



Pepper grass 218 



Peppers.. 278 



Peppermint 311 



Pie plant 185 



Plant breeding 84 



Plant food, developed by cul- 

 tivation 56 



Plowing 52 



subsoil plowing 53 



Pollenizing flowers 88 



Pop corn 157 



Potato beetle 125 



Potato. Family 253 



Potatoes 254 



blight 270 



digging 261 



diseases 267 



early planting 258 



insects 125 



main crop . . . . 259 



manuring 256 



origin 254 



pitting.. . 261 



propagation, notes on 265 



rotation 256 



"running out" of 257 



saving seed 257 



scab 267 



score card 317 



sets or "seeds" 257 



soil 256 



starch 263 



sweet 252 



varieties 264 



Protection to newly planted 



seeds against insects. ... 70 



crows and gophers .... 70 



Pumpkins 285 



exhibiting 318 



Pyrethrum 120 



Radishes 218 



culture 218 



varieties 220 



Rhubarb 185 



culture.. ... 185 



PAGE 

 Rhubarb (continued) 



forcing 187 



varieties 188 



Ridging land 54 



Rotation of manures 46 



Rotation of crops 24 



Rue * 314 



Rutabaga 215 



Sage 311 



Salsify 299 



Sauerkraut 207 



Savory 312 



Seed and seed growing 80 



changing seed 83 



curing 82 



germinating apparatus. ... 81 

 germinating standards. . . . 322 



pedigrees 80 



selling 144 



stock 83 



storing 82 



testing 80 



Seed sowing 63 



by hand 67 



depth 63 



firming with feet 68 



in stiff soils 65 



time 64 



with machine 66 



Seedsmen's humbugs 84 



Seedsmen's specialties 83 



Seed tables 319 



amount for acre 321 



longevity 320 



purity standards 322 



number of seeds in an ounce 319 



time to germinate 321 



weight of seeds 319 



Seeds, pedigrees of 80 



novelties 84 



Selling 144 



Shading, seed bed 68 



greenhouse glass 115 



Shallots 181 



Skinner system of irrigation . 22 



Smut 158 



Soils 14 



for early crops 16 



