484 INDEX. 



Oflficial milk- and butter-fat records, 240 



Orchard-spraying outfit, a cheap. 126 



Ounces reduced to decimals of a foot, 390 



Oxford sheep, 26 



Overrun of butter, 309, 314 



Parcel post, 386 



Pasteurization of milk and cream, 290 



Pastures, permanent, seed mixtures for, 75 



Patents, how issued, 371 



Patrons of creameries, rules for, 356 



Patrons of cheesa factories and creameries, suggestions to, 34^. 



Payment of milk at creameries and cheese factories, 340 



Percheron horses, 23 



Perishable goods, temperatures injuring, 98 



Pickrell, J. H., Shorthorns as dairy cows, 224 



Pipes, carrying capacity of, 179 



cost of, for irrigation, 180 



straight, flow of water through, 179 

 Plant diseases, treatments for, 121 



food, proportion recommended for different crops, 158 

 Planting table, a gardener's, 88 

 Plants, temperatures injurious to, 99 

 Plants, number of, for an acre of ground, 86, 87 

 Plowing, performance of team in, 189 

 Poisoning, antidotes in cases of, 380 

 Poland China swine, 27 



Population, agricultural, number and classification, 417 

 Pork, diagram of cuts of, 205 

 Postage, domestic, 385 



foreign, 385; parcel post, 386 

 Potatoes, relation of sp. gr., dry matter, and starch content of, 95 

 Potatoes, prevention of scab, 129 

 Poultry and egg products in the United States, 1 879-1 899, 437 



breeds of, 47, 48 



feeding and care of, 41 



period of incubation, 38 



standard weights of, 47 

 Pounds converted into kilograms, 390 

 Power required for discharge of water, 176 



to raise water from deep wells, 180 



separators, list of, 276 

 Precipitation, normal, in Canada, 416 



the United States, 415 

 Preservation of horticultural products, best temperatures for, to* 

 milk and cream by heat, 290 

 soft fruits for exhibition purposes, 100 

 Preservatives for soft fruits for exhibition purposes, loa 

 Prevention of oat -smut, 127 



smuts of cereal grains and potatoes, 129 

 Pumps, capacities of, 181 

 Pure cultures, use of, in butter- and cheese-making, 397 



