INDEX 



Page 

 "Plus sight", of "back sight", 



explanation 191 



Ponds 142 



Portable fences 366 



Posts 358, 371 



Posts, bracing corner 381 



cement 373 



setting 358 



Poultry fences 370 



Power amount of, required to 



draw a load 342 



Prairies, great, origin of 41 



Prairie sod, breaking 134 . 



Preliminary survey 286 



Price list of drain tiles 169 



Private drains 155 



Production, soil, capacity 90 



Profile, how to make a, of level 



survey 192 



Profits, and cost must be carefully 



studied 146 



better, from land 151 



Puddling of clay soils 304 



Pumps 228 



Rainfall, relation to drainage. ... 148 

 Ravelling of stones from the sur- 

 face of stone road 345 



Red River of the North, valley of 145 



Relation of farmers to roads 352 



Repairs, fence 359 



macadam and telford road . . 345 



road 306, 342 



Residence on the farm 109 



Resistance to traction 305 



Revolving screen in stone crusher 338 



Roadbed 307 



draining the 307 



Road building, economy in hand- 

 ling earth 313 



modern 272 



need of pushing 276 



neglect 276 



Road, legislation 280 



machine, reversible 219, 314 



surface, ashes useful for 



hardening 325 



constructing the 322 



specifications for 289 



telford 336 



width of 312 



Roads, and bridges 272 



and lanes 107 



common earth and sand. . . . 322 



repairing 342 



cost of sand-clay 295 



locating 286 



lumberman's ice 349 



macadam, placing layers. . 334 



metal 324 



mileage in United States. . . 284 

 of various widths, cost of. . 297 



physics of 303 



pioneer, locating 286 



relation of farmers to 352 



repairing of 342 



selection of material. ... . 332 



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Roads, snow 346 



stone 330 



stones which are valuable for 323 



unit cost 293 



wood 324 



Roadside, ditches 180 



trees 351 



weeds 351 



Rock, crushed, cost of 339 



crushers 337, 338 



for macadam roads 330 



igneous . . . : 35 



quantities required for differ- 

 ent widths and depths. . 339 



Rods, surveyors' 162 



Root hairs 71 



Roots, of field crops 72 



removal from peaty lands. . . 130 

 trees, protection of drains 



from 210 



Rotation, crop, provision for sys- 

 tematic 112 



Sand-clay roads, cost of 295 



Sand, mixing into clay soils 137 



roads 322 



Sandy soils, light 64 



Science, relation of to agriculture 25 



Sciences, agricultural 30 



Scraper, slush 317 



Screen, revolving in stone crusher 338 



Seepage water 138 



Sewers, drainage 225 



Shelter belts, farmstead 102 



Side ditches 321 



Silt wells in drainage 213 



Sinkholes 142 



Site of the farmstead 101 



Slope or grade, deciding upon 



amount of 194 



Sloughs 141 



Slush scraper 317 



Snow roads 346 



Sod, backsetting 135 



breaking prairie 134 



Soil, aeration, acceleration by cul- 

 tivation, and drainage ... 70 



air movement in 69 



assorted till, quality 40 



body 61 



classification 53 



color of 65 



cultivation, acceleration of 



aeration . 70 



drainage, acceleration of aer- 

 ation 70 



effect of drainage on, is 



shown in various ways. 150 



fertility 61 



sustaining 58 



formation 51, 52 



agencies in 54 



favorable conditions-. . . 57 



under difficulties 55 



formation on moorlands. ... 56 

 production, capacity for. ... 90 

 relations 67 



