432 INDEX. 



Patrons, rules for, 318 



Payment of milk at creameries and cheese factories, 302 



Percheron horses, 21 



Perishable goods, temperatures injuring, 79 



Pickrell, J. H., Shorthorns as dairy cows, 196 



Pipes, carrying capacity of, 151 



cost of, for irrigation, 152 



straigTit, flow of water through, 151 

 Plant diseases, treatments for, 99 



number of, for an acre of ground, 70, 71 

 Plants, temperatures injurious to, 80 

 Plowing, performance of team in, 161 

 Poisoning, antidotes in cases of, 341 

 Poland China pigs, 25 



Population, agricultural, number and classification, 373 

 Pork, diagram of cuts of, 177 

 Postage, domestic, 347 



foreign, 347 

 Potatoes, relation of sp. gr., dry matter, and starch content of, 76 



prevention of scab, 107 

 Poultry and egg product in the United States, 1880 and 1890, 392 



breeds of, 36 



feeding and care of, 31 

 Pounds converted into kilograms, 352 

 Power required for discharge of water, 148 

 to raise water from deep wells, 152 



separators, list of, 243 

 Precipitation, normal, in Canada, 372 



the United States, 371 

 Preservation of milk and cream by heat, 256 



soft fruits for exhibition purposes, 81 

 Prevention of oats-smut, 105 



smuts of cereal grains and scab of potatoes, 107 

 Pumps, capacity of, 153 



Pure cultures, use of, in butter and cheese making, 263 

 Purity standards of seeds, 86 

 Quevenne lactometer, 226 

 Rainfall, 144 

 Rations for dairy cows, practical, 12, 14 



standard, 10 

 Reciprocals of numbers, 354 



Record, highest, for yield of fat by dairy cows, 211 

 Records, milk and butter, official, 212 

 Red-polled cattle, 199 

 Rennet test, 250 



Richards, H. B., Dutch belted cattle, 204 



Richter, Prof. A. W., Steam boiler and engine management, 252 

 Road leagues, constitution of, 294 



