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INDEX 



Ponce de Leon, 20 

 Population, future, 207 

 Post Office, Washington, facili- 

 ties for parcel post, 103 

 Potatoes, yield, 332 

 Power on the farm^ 160 

 Price of beef, comparative, 259 

 Products, ideal for selling, 92 

 Professor Langley, 164 

 Profits, what per cent, does 



the farmer get? 97 

 Prohibition, 69 



South versus North, 75 

 Promoters, wickedness of, 7 

 Public library, clearing house 



for parcel post, 110, 111 

 Public schools, teaching agri- 

 culture, 316 



Q 



Quack remedy, victim, 22 



R 



Rainfall, distribution, 242 

 Reforestation, 213 



early experiment, 218 



effect on climate, 250 

 Reforestation with fruit bear- 

 ing trees, 222 



Riley, James Whitcomb, 48 

 Rock decay, 175 

 Rocks, rates of weathering, 178 



weathering, 177 

 Rural banks, minimum capi- 

 tal, 137 



type, 136 

 Rural credits, 125 



free from taxation, 132 



stability, 135 



state aid, 137 

 Rural life, love of, 8 



S 



Sand, Long Island preferable 

 to Florida, 27 



Sand bed, making the garden 



of, 283 



Sanitation, importance of, 57 

 Scale, San Jose', 51 

 Schools, agricultural, 12 



study of farm life, 7 

 Science, the mother of indus- 

 tries and arts, 275 

 Scientific truth, diffusion, 303 

 Sheep, example of selling, 96 



losses, 170 

 Silage, value as dairy cattle 



food, 38 



Silo, value of, 38 

 Silt, quantities carried to the 



ocean, 181 

 Small farmer, 78 

 Smith, Professor J. Russell, 



222 



Sobriety, a benefit to agricul- 

 ture, 73 

 Soil, evolution, 174 



fertility, 226 

 Soil in situ, 176 

 Soil, more than mineral, 187 



quantity carried in water, 

 219, 220 



restitution, 224 



weight of, 249 

 Soiling, 37 

 Soils, adobe, 197 



alkali, 194 



alluvial, 192 



chemical composition in re- 

 gard to washing, 214 



classification, 177, 188 



destruction of, 208 



fertility according to bureau 

 of soils, 229 



future production, 205 



in situ, 190 



loss by drainage, 210 



loss by erosion, 210 



peat, 198 



reclamation, 211 



