INDEX. 485 



Purity sta idards of seeds, io6 



Quevenne lactometer, 255 



Rainfall, 172 



Rations for dairy cows, practical. 14, 16; standard, 12 



dry matter, digestible matter, and digestibk 

 protein in, 19^. 

 farm animals, 12 

 Reciprocals of numbers, 392 

 Record, highest, for yield of fat, 239 

 Records, milk- and butter-fat, official, 240 

 Red-polled cattle, 227 

 Rennet tests, 319 



Richards, H. B., Dutch belted cattle, 232 



Richter, Prof. A. W., Steam boiler and engine management 286 

 Road leagues, constitul^^ion of, 366 

 Road-making, 18.* 

 Roads, drainage, 183 



Roads, different l-*"-'s ot. force required to draw a load on 185 186 

 good, importanc -^5 



gravel for, 1 84 

 repairs, 184 



stoiie required for maintenance of, 1 90 

 Ropes, strength of, 399 



Russell, Prof. H. L., Preservation of milk and cream by heat, 290 

 Rye, commercial grades of, 405 

 Salt, American dairy, analyses of, 318 

 Second-foot of water, 177 



3eed mixtures for grass, clover, hay and permanent pastures, 75. 76 

 quantity required per acre, 74> 7 7 

 testing for the farmer, 104 

 vegetable, quantity required per acre, 90 

 Seeds, 104 



germination standards, 109 



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

 purity, 105 

 purity standards, 106 



vegetable, time of germination and maturity table 90 

 \ntality. 113 

 weights, legal, 400 

 seedsmen's, 114 

 Separator skim-milk, per cent fat in, 280 

 Shaw, Prof. Thomas, Heredity, 48 

 Sheep, breeds. 25 



determination of age of, 36 

 diseases of, 61 

 fine-woo led, 25 

 market classes of, 32 

 mutton. 25 



proportions ot the various parts of, 208 

 Shire horses, 33 



