INDEX. 



333 



f-rOTCH-IRIsn. the, 171. 



SCOTLAND, 178, 269. 



SCRUB OAK, 314. 



SCYTHES, 239- 



'NS, Dry. See DROUTH. 



SEWAGE SEWAGE, chap, xlv, 266; 

 causes which doomed ancient em- 

 pires to decay, 266; illustrations 

 thereof, 266-7 ; the soil must receive 

 back the elements taken from it, 

 267; obstacles thereto, 267; loca- 

 tion of ancient and modern cities, 

 267 ; imperative necessity for cleans- 

 ing great cities, 267-0; meaning 

 given to sewage in England, 268 ; 

 C9nditions necessary for Its equable 

 diffusion over the soil, 268 ; applica- 

 tion of sewage, 268; difficulties of 

 utilizing it, 268-9; * ne progress 

 made, 269; the measures taken to 

 utilize sewage at Koml'ord, England, 

 269 ; farm whereon it was nsed, and 

 the results attained, 269-70-1-2-3; 

 conclusion therefrom, 273-4. 



SHEEP SHEEP AMD WOOL GROWTNO, 

 xxxiv, 200 ; production of wool in 

 the United States insufficient, 200; 

 thev might profitably grow as much 

 ssthey consume, 201 ; reasons there- 

 for, 201 ; the increased price of mut- 

 ton will make up for the reduction 

 on wool, 201 j rtieep-growlDg in Eng- 

 land as an i!iust;-atlon, 201 ; sheep 

 soon make; a return for the outlay on 

 them, 202 ; they successfully contend 

 with bushes "and briars, 203 ; more 

 mutton should be consumed, 202-3 ; 

 all farmers are not counseled to 

 grow sheep, 203; depredations of 

 dogs, 203-4 ; precautions against 

 them, 204 ; the change in the rela- 1 

 tive values of mutton and wool, 204 ; 

 the relative prices and product the 

 farmer must expect in the future, 

 205 ; growing sheep for mutton near 

 New York, 205 ; profit thereof, 205 ; 

 sheep-growing fe no experiment, 

 205; encouragement thereto, 205-6; 

 sheep growing in Colorado and 

 other Territories, and its future, 

 206. 



SICILY. 267. 

 SICKLE, 239. 

 SILICA, 235. 

 SMITH, WnUAX (Woolston, Eng.), 



SOCIETY, Agricultural, an, 228. See 



FARMERS' CLUBS. 

 SODA, 235. 



SOILS, analysis of, 234. 

 SORGHUM, BtalkBof, 43. 

 SORREL, 125,232. 

 SOUTH, as, ; inviting immijgratlon, 26; 



the inducements she offers, 26-7-8, 



SOU Til 3 AMERICA, 200, 206. 



SPAIN, 86, 237. 



SPANISH AMERICA, 172. 



SPRING, 67, 70, 73, 75, 76, 78, 81, 87, 88, 99, 

 III, 126, 127, 134, 135, 136, 137, I4i MPi 

 150, 168,171, 173.174. 93. 194, 202, 258, 



SPRUCE, 223. 

 SQUASH, 226, 264. 



STARK COUNTY, Ohio, ito. 



STEAM IN AGRICULTURE, Cultiva- 

 tion by, 37 ; application of steam to 

 plowing, 95. STEAM IN AGRICUL- 

 TURE, chap, xli, 241 ; farmers have 

 been slow in utilizing the natural 

 forces around them, 241 ; evidence 

 thereof, 242 ; steam as a sonrce of 

 power is hardly a century old, 242 ; 

 the revolution it bus effected, 242; 

 it will effect still greater. 243; steam 

 has contributed very little to pre- 

 paring the soil, 243; disappoint- 

 ments of inventors of steam plows, 

 243; steam plowing in Louisiana, 

 243; steam plows in Great Britain. 

 243-4 ; the locomotive that is needed 

 for steam plowing, 244; the saving 

 it would effect, 244-5; American 

 reapers in England, their value ap- 

 preciated, 245 ; need for a machine 

 to plow rapidly demonstrated, 246; 

 recommendation of a German ob- 

 server regarding plowing, 246; ir- 

 rigation will become general, 247 ; 

 the locomotive referred to above 

 could be nsed for sinking wells, 

 247 ; steam plowing in England, 283- 



STE AM PLOWS. See STEAM. 



STEEL, 242. 



STEUHEN COUNTY, N. Y., 105. 



STONE STONE ON A FABM, chap, 

 xxxvi, 213; formation of the earth, 

 212 : diffusion of stones over the 

 surface, 213 ; these are sometimes a 

 facility, but oftener an impediment 

 to efficient agriculture, 213 ; no rock 

 on the surface of the great prairies 

 of the West, and a portion ot the val- 

 leys and plains of the Atlantic slope, 

 213; advantages and disadvantages 

 thereof to the pioneer, 214 ; less use 

 for stone now than formerly, 214; 

 the stone on Eastern farms to be 

 yet utilized. 214-5 ; very stony land 

 should be planted with trees, 215 ; 

 rough, unshapen stones will be more 

 and more used for building, 21 5-6; 

 instructions for building a barn 

 partly with stone concrete, 216; its 

 advantages, 216 ; blasting out stone 

 considered, 216-7 : the mode a lum- 

 berman employs to remove rocks in 

 creeks, 217 ; the author's experience 

 regarding the fencing of bis farm, 

 218: his stone walls, 218. 



STONES, 249. 



STRAWBERRIES, 16, qo. 



SUGAR, production of, from the beet, 

 180 ; maple, 19,314. 



SULPHUR, 104. ' 



SUMMER.47, 59, 64, 67, 78, 83, 84, 86, 88, 99. 

 103, 124. 'A 13, IM, 173, 178, 189, 19. 

 191, 202, 260, 264, 279, 260. 



STTPBKPHOSPHATE; 174. 



SUSQUKHANXA, the, 279, 292; the val- 

 ley of the. 317. 



SWAMP LAND: about 50,000.000 acres 

 of, in the old States (including 

 Maine), 12^. See DRAINING. 



SAVIN E, 14^. 



SWITZERLAND, 130; Northern, 171. 



SYCAMORE, 59. 



