426 IKDEX. 



Dairying, 183 



more important works on, 410 

 Dates of killing frost, 369 



Days between dates within two years, numbe-r of, 346 

 Decker, John W., How American cheese is made, 281 

 Detection of bad milk, 284 

 Devon cattle, 202 



Dewey, L. H., Table of noxious weeds, 94 

 Dietaries, 168, 175 



daily, calculation of, 168 

 Dietary standards, 168, 175 

 Digestion coefficients, 2, 6 

 Dimensions, interior, of farm buildings, 163 

 Directory of official agricultural institutions, 400 

 Diseases of farm animals, 41 

 Disinfectants, list of, 58 

 Disinfection of stables, rules for, 59 

 Distance table for planting vegetables, 72 

 tree-planting, 74, 116 

 Dividends, directions for making, in creameries and cheese factories, 



307 

 Dorset sheep, 24 



Doses, veterinary, graduation of, 51 

 Draining land, reasons for, 139 



Drains, of various dimensions, earth removed for, 143 

 Duroc-Jersey swine, 25 

 Dutch belted cattle, 204 

 Duty of water, 148 

 Economy, pecuniary, of food, 172 

 Engine management, 255 

 Engineering, agricultural, 139 

 English milking trials, results of, 212 

 Essex pigs, 25 



Exhaustion of fertilizers, 134 



Exhibition purposes, preservation of soft fruits for, 81 

 Exports, agricultural, in the U. S., 1897-98, 393 

 Fair tests of dairy cows, 211, 214 

 Farm animals, body temperature of, 28 



characteristics of, 19 



common diseases of, 41 



constituents of carcass, 181 



determination of age of, 2.^ 



estimated number on farms and ranches, 1896, 383 



food requirements of, 16 



heat in, duration and frequency, 28 



in Canada in 1891, 387 



in the United States in 1870- 1895, 387 



live, composition of, 180 



