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INDEX. 



Preparing soil for corn 153 



Press, Home-made 434 



Preventives for self-sucking, on 



Cattle 428, 410 



Products of farm, Leading 23 



Product, The wheat 167 



Profitable feeding 1191 



Pulverizing manures 79 



Pumpkins 200 



Purposes of soil 97 



QUINCES 267 



RACE-HORSE, Pedigree of. 473 



Rack and manger for cattle or 



horses 431 



Radishes 310 



Radish-fly 339 



Rain-gauge 431 



Rape Butterfly 338 



Raspberries 276 



How to manage them 277 



Mulching 277 



Varieties 278 



Ratio of food for young animals.. 1185 



For milk 1186 



Rat-trap 433 



Red clover 132 



Nutritive value 133 



Curing clover-hay 134 



Time to sow 135 



For pasture 136 



Fertilizers for 137 



Growing seed 137 



Testing the seed 138 



Hoven, clover-bloat, and slob- 

 bers 139 



Red-top (herd's-grass) 121 



Reducing cost of fences, Mode of. 35 



Reel, Garden 429 



Rent received for farms 32 



Revolving shelves 428 



Rhubarb... . 311 



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Ringing a hog 433 



Roads, convenience to market 21 



Rock Phosphate Ill 



Roller cover 414 



Root-cutter, Home-made 424 



Rose-chafer 363 



Rotation of crops 24 



Rough-stalked Meadow-grass 122 



Rye 190 



Straw, its value and uses 190 



Can be grown on poor land 191 



Prevents soil from washing 191 



Rye for a green manure 90 



SADDLE-HORSE, The 509 



Salsify 312 



Sand 98 



Sand in garden soils, Using 291 



Saving seed-corn 149 



When to gather it, and how.... 150 



Saw-buck for long wood 435 



Saw-fly, Gooseberry 360 



Scare-crows 421 



Seed-corn 148 



Seeding to grass 124 



Selection of farm 18 



Selection of varieties of fruitrtrees 257 



Self-supporting ladder 419 



Shade-trees about house 387 



Shearing-table 423 



Sheep 



The Spanish breed, or Merino. 993 



Best climate for sheep 994 



Mutton 995 



British sheep-husbandry 997 



Atlantic States for sheep 998 



The West 999 



Sub-montane District 1000 



Prairie section 1000 



Systems of the Far West 1001 



The Pacific Coast 1002 



Wool 1002 



Few diseases among sheep 1003 



