INDEX. 4a3 



Road-making, 15S 



Roads, drainage, 155 



Roads, different kinds of, force required to draw a load on, 157 



good, importance of, 157 



gravel for, 156 



repairs, 156 



stone required for maintenance of, 143 



weight required to move vehicles on, 158 

 Ropes, strength of, 361 



Rnssell, Prof. H. L., Preservation of milk and cream by heat, 256 

 Salt, American dairy, analyses of, 280 

 Second-foot of water, 149 

 Seed mixtures for grass and clover, 64 



hay and permanent pastures, 63, 65 



quantity required per acre, 62 



testing for the farmer, 84 



vegetable, quantity required per acre, 73 

 Seeds, 84 



germination standards, 89 



grass, number, weight, cost, and amount to sow per acre, 89 



purity standards, 86 



vitality, 93 

 Separator skim-milk, conditions determining fat content of, 252 



formula for obtaining fat content of, 252 



per cent fat in, 246 

 Separators, list of, 242 

 Shaw, Prof. Thos., Heredity, 36 

 Sheep, diseases of, 49 



determination of age of, 2-j 



fine-wooled, 23 



mutton, 23 



proportions of the various parts of, 180 

 Shire horses, 21 

 Shorthorn cattle, 22, 196 

 Shropshire sheep, 23 



Silos, cylindrical, area of feeding surface of, for different sized 

 herds, 70 



capacity of, 69 

 Sisson, L. P., Devon cattle, 202 

 Skim-milk, composition of, 239 

 per cent fat in, 246 



relation of fat content, and speed of bowl, quantity of milk 

 separated, and temperature of the milk, 252 

 Skimming of milk, detection of, 236 



ineflficient, loss of butter caused by, 251 

 Slope, rise per 100 feet, 143 

 Smith, J. McLain, Red-polled cattle, 199 

 Smuts of cereal grains, prevention of, 107 



