604 



INDEX. 



Pagb 



Restoring FertiUty 26 



Roads 81 



Roller 179 



Root Crops 316 



Roots for Use on the Farm 319 



Roots, transplanting 334 



Rotation of Crops 272 



Roup 502 



Rutabaga Turnips 321 



Rye 313 



Rye for Forage 381 



Salt, best kind for the dairy 549 



Salting Butter 548 



Scab (sheep) 488 



Scratches or Grease (horses) 439 



Scrofula (swine) 498 



Sea- Weed as Manure 255 



Sewers of London 212 



Sheep 407 



Sheep, catarrh 491 



Sheep, colic or stretches 492 



Sheep, diseases of 48 1 



Sheep, grub in the head 489 



Sheep, medical treatment of 478 



Sheep, puerperal fever 492 



Sheep, puerperal fever, Samuel 



Thorne on 495 



Sheep, scab 488 



Silica Plants 276 



Silt Basins 110 



Soil 24 



Soil, composition of 23 



Soil, practical view of 26 



Soil, restoration of 26 



Soils, cause of unproductiveness. . . 26 



Soils, mechanical ingredients of. ... 25 



Soiling and Pasturing 417 



Soiling, Josiah Quincy on 423 



Soiling, product; of milk under 422 



Solvent Manures 258 



Sorghum 342 



Sowed Corn 339 



Spring Wheat 311 



Steam Plowing 157 



Steaming Food 582 



Stone Drains 130 



Stone Walls 44 



Strangles (horses) 456 



Stretches or Colic (sheep) 492 



Sub-soil Plowing 149 



Superphosphate of Lime, how made 244 



Page 

 Superphosphate of Lime, how ap- 

 plied 246 



Swedes 321 



Swine 406 



Swine, medical treatment of 496 



Swine, blind staggers in 500 



Swine, bleeding 501 



Swine, costi veness 500 



Swine, cough. 500 



Swine, inflammation of the lungs.. 500 



Swine, itch 500 



Swine, kidney worm 500 



Swine, scrofula 498 



Temperature of Stables 571 



Theory 22 



Thorne, Samuel, on puerperal fever 



(sheep) 495 



Transplanting Roots ' 334 



Trench Plowing 153 



Turnips, rutabaga 321 



Typhoid Fever (cattle) 471 



Typhus Fever (cattle) 471 



Unproductive Soils 26 



Useful Tables for Farmers 585-597 



Ventilator for Barn 68 



Voelcker, Dr. Augustus, on farm 

 yard manure 195 



Voelcker, Dr. Augustus, on the 

 drainage of manure heaps 199 



Voelcker, Dr. Augustus, on clover 

 as a preparatory crop for wheat. . 344 



Washing Butter 547 



Water-Table 25 



Weeks, Gardner B., on cheese fac- 

 tories 552 



Wheat, 307, 291 



Wheat, average yield of, in U. S. . . 36 

 Wheat, average yield of, in England 36 



Wheat, winter 310 



Wheat, spring 311 



Wheat, ingredients of 348 



Windmill 59 



Winter Feeding and Management of 



Live Stock 569 



Winter Wheat 310 



Wool Growing 407 



Working Animals, management of. 574 

 Worms (horses) 457 



