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Index 



Planting barley, 154. 



buckwheat, 158. 



corn, 113. 



cotton, 228. 



fruit trees, 256. 



grass seed, 164. 



oats, 149. 



rice, 156. 



rye, 152. 



sugar-cane, 220. 



sweet potatoes, 209. 



table, for vegetables, 282. 



wheat, 136. 



white potatoes, 202. 

 Plows, disc, 448. 



gang, 448. 



kinds of, 445. 



subsoil, 449. 



sulky, 448. 



walking, 445. 

 Plum-cur culio, 267. 

 Plumule of the embryo, 13. 

 Pod corn, 103. 

 Pop-corn, 101. 

 Poisonous insecticides, 246. 

 Poland-China swine, 409. 

 Polish wheat, 113. 

 Polled Durham cattle, 338. 



Hereford cattle, 340. 

 Pollen of a flower, 11. 

 Pollination of flowers, 12. 

 Ponies, breeds of, 314. 



Broncho, 315. 



definition of, 303. 



Hackney, 315. 



Indian, 315. 



Shetland, 314. 



Welsh, 315. 

 Potash, American, 86. 



salts from Germany, 86. 

 Potassic fertilizers, 86. 

 Potassium, effects of, 88. 



need of, in soil, 56. 



sulfide as a fungicide, 247. 

 Potato beetle, Colorado, 205. 

 Potatoes (see white potatoes and sweet 



potatoes). 



Potatoes, kinds of, 200. 

 Potato blight, 206. 



scab, 207. 



planters, 456. 

 Pot-herb crops, 279. 



Poultry houses, 432. 



manure, 69. 



types of, 426. 

 Poulard wheat, 133. 

 Production of sanitary milk, 383. 

 Propagation, artificial, 18. 



by division, 15, 29. 



by grafts, 20. 



by hardwood stem cuttings, 19. 



by herbaceous cuttings, 16. 



by layers, 19. 



by rootstocks, 17. 



by seeds, 13. 



by specialized buds, 15. 



by spores, 12. 



by tillers, 17. 



of sugar-cane, 221. 



of sweet potatoes, 209. 

 Protein in plants, 7. 

 Pruning of fruit trees, 243. 

 Puddled soil structure, 36. 

 Pulse crops, 279. 

 Purity of grass seeds, 179. 



legume seeds; 198. 



R 



Radicle of embryo, 13. 

 Rag-doll seed corn tester, 110. 

 Rambouillet sheep, 401. 

 Rations, balanced, 289. 



for beef cattle, 346. 

 dairy cattle, 366. 

 horses, 323. 

 poultry, 438. 

 Reaper, self-rake, 139. 

 Records, farm, 466. 

 Red-cane, 222. 



clover, 62, 184, 198. 



Poll cattle, 343. 

 Redtop, 170 



Region for farming, choice of, 462. 

 Residual soils, 32. 

 Rice, characteristics of, 155. 



harvesting of, 156. 



planting of, 156. 



uses of, 155. 



Ridging land for cotton, 229. 

 Roberts, John W., quoted, 250. 

 Root-borer of sweet potato, 213. 

 Root crops, 279. 

 Root cuttings, 19. 





