INDEX. 319 



Physical condition of the soil, XI, 91; time to work soil, 94; perfect soil conditions, 



96; condition, 239. 



Planting, check row, 160; with lister, 161. 

 Plowing, VIII, 44; spring plowing old land, 45; when, 45; effect of disking, 48; 



proper depth, 50; fall plowing old land, 51; breaking new prairie kad, 54; 



even furrows, 53; fall breaking, 55. 

 Pomeroy farm, results, 67, 89, 114, 171, 255; wheat crop on, 193; farm trees, 207, 



210, 215. 

 Potatoes, growing, 197; preparing soil for, 199; seed and planting, 201; variety of, 



202; cultivation of, 202. 

 Practical results, XXXI, 255; at Hill City, 255; at Holdrege, 256, in Colorado, 



257; at Greenfield, Kan., 259; in dozen states, 277. 

 Prejudices, overcoming, 281. 

 Prevention of winter killing, 264. 

 Preparing soil for potatoes, 199. 

 Prevention of waste on farm, 252. 

 Progress in agricultural science, XXXVII, 279. 

 Proper phyiscal condition of soil, 50. 

 Quantity of seed, XXIV, 270. 



Quick, Herbert, in World's Work, on Campbell system, 287. 

 Rain crust, and how broken up, 113. 

 Rainfall, not lack of, 125. 

 Rains, difference in, 131. 

 Raising standard of living, 294. 

 Rapidity of evaporation, 124. 

 Results declared to be remarkable, 289. 

 Roberts, Prof, Isaac P., on fertility of land, 94. 

 Root development, in loose soil, 67; in firm soil, 65; with shallow cultivation, 198; 



deep cultivation, 200; in all soils, 164, 166. 

 Roots and soil, magnified, 201. 

 Root system, value of healthy, 71. 

 Rotation, experiments in, 77. 

 Salvation of the dry .belt, 287. 

 Saving of the moisture, 141. 

 Scientific condition for grain, 267. 

 Seed and planting, potatoes, 201. 

 Seed bed, making with packer, 66. 

 Seed corn, testing, 172. 

 Seeding, for alfalfa, 227; alfalfa on new breaking, 230; effect of different Jspths, 



187; proper depth of, 185; with three kinds of drills, 182. 

 Seed, quantity of, 270; too much per acre, 271; amount of, 163. 

 Seeking new arid plants, XXVI, 232. 

 Semi-arid region, advantages of, 130. 

 Setting of trees, 207. 

 Shade and Shelter, trees, 204. 

 Shallow cultivation, root development, 198 

 Shallow vs. deep cultivation, 138. 

 Size of disk to use, 42. 

 Small farms, better farming, V, 28. 

 Sod, breaking for fall wheat, 56; new prairie land, 54. 



