INDEX 



433 



Stooling, 12. 



Storage reservoirs, 89. 



Stover. See Corn. 



Strawberries, references, 243. 



Style, defined, 11. 



Subsoiling, 165. 



g ffolk hogs, 358, 360. 



Suffolk Punch horses, 307. 



Sugar, as food, 286; exports and im- 

 ports, 415; references, 300. 



Sugar-beet, breeding, 24; breeding 

 references, 35; digestible nutrients 

 in, 410; fertility in, 408; per cent of 

 sugar, 24; total production, 417; 

 references, 243; seeding rate, 405. 



Sugar-beet leaves, digestible nutrients 

 in, 410. 



Sugar-beet molasses, digestible nutri- 

 ents in, 410. 



Sugar-beet pulp, digestible nutrients 

 in, 411. 



Sugar-cane, total production, 417; value 

 of crop, 413. 



Sugar maple, references, 243. 



Sulfate of ammonia. See Ammonium 

 sulfate. 



Sulfate of potash, 125. 



Sulfur, food for plants and animals, 

 60, 62. 



Sweet potatoes, method of reproduction, 

 12; propagation of, 39; references, 

 243; planting rate, 405; value of crop, 

 413; weight per bushel, 406. 



Swine. See Hogs. 



Tamworth hogs, 358. 360. 



Tankage, as a fertilizer, 123; for hogs, 

 286. 



Tea, exports and imports, 415. 



Temperature of soils, 81, 82. 



Texas fever, 341. 



Therm, defined, 291. 



Thomas slag, 124. 



Thoroughbred, 307. 



Tile drains. See Drainage. 



Tillage of orchards, 228. 



Timothy, 184; breeding, 24; composi- 

 tion of, 63, 284; digestibility of, 287; 

 290, 291: digestible food per acre, 189; 

 digestible nutrients in, 411; fertility 



in, 409; fertilizer requirements, 132; 

 for horses, 312; lime requirement, 126; 

 maintenance value, 290, 291; pro- 

 duction value as feed, 291, 411; seed 

 vitality, 405; seeding rate, 185; 196, 

 197, 405; time to cut, 71, 183; varia- 

 tion in, 24; weight per bushel, 406. 



Toad, usefulness of, reference, 271. 



Tobacco, exports and imports, 415; 

 references, 34, 242, 271; soils for, 

 82; value of crop, 155, 413. 



Tobacco stems, fertility in, 409. 



Tomatoes, weight per bushel, 406; 

 references, 243. 



Top-grafting, 46. 



Toxic substances, 276. 



Trees, how to plant, 227; shade, 233; 

 treatment of wounds, 231. 



Trotting horse, 307, 308. 



Tuber, defined, 39. 



Tuberculin, 340. 



Tuberculosis, 337 



Turkeys, reference, 371. 



Turnips, composition of, 63; digestible 

 nutrients in, 411; fertility in, 409; 

 production value as feed, 412; seed 

 vitality, 405; seeding rate, 405; 

 soft rot of, 250. 



Variation, 5; how increased, 21; law 



of, 5. 

 Vegetables, farm garden, 234; soils for 



82. 



Verbena, propagation of, 41. 

 Vetch, seeding rate, 405. 

 Victoria hogs, 358, 359, 360. 

 Vitality of seeds, table of, 405. 



Walks, control of weeds in, 247. 



Water, amount in plants, 62, 63; as a 

 plant food, 61; function in feeds, 285; 

 in feeds, 282; in feeds, how deter- 

 mined, 282; requirement of different 

 crops, 67. See, also, Soil water. 



Watermelon, lime requirement, 126; 

 vitality of seeds, 405. 



Water supply, 391. 



Weeder, 169. 



Weeds, control of, 70, 169, 245, 274; 

 controlled by fertilizers, 190; defined, 



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