1242 



INDEX. 



Stock pasturing on the highway... 36 



Strawberries 272 



Soil.. 273 



Culture 273 



Winter protection 274 



Planting 275 



Striped-bug 331 



Stump-puller 412 



Success in farming 17 



Sugar, Elements of 1171 



Super-phosphate 112 



Surface draining 72 



Sward on plow-lands 124 



Sweet corn in garden 200 



Sweet-scented Vernal grass 123 



Sweet Potatoes 238 



Selecting seed 239 



Starting beds for sprouting 240 



Varieties 242 



Preparing soil, planting, and 



cultivation 242 



Storing 245 



Swine and their management 



First Swine in the West 931 



On "the range" 932 



Of no particular breed 932 



Better breeds introduced 933 



Statistics of Swine 934 



Who should raise hogs? 935 



Improvement of stock 935 



Selection of breeding stock 937 



Treatment of the boar 938 



Sows for breeding, Choosing... 939 



Entering dates 939 



Caring for the sow and young 



pigs 940 



Best time for the sow to far- 

 row 941 



Profit of litters 942 



Diseases of Swine 943 



Causes of disease 944 



Hog cholera 944 



Preventive measures 945 



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Swine, Breeds of 



Poland-chinas 948 



Berkshires 951 



Chester Whites 954 



The Essex 956 



Jersey Reds 957 



Suffolks 959 



The Yorkshire 961 



The Cheshire 961 



Lancashires 963 



Victorias 964 



Swine, Housing and Fattening 



Hog houses and pens 966 



Size 967 



Plans for 968 



Portable pig-pens 971 



House for brood-sows with 



stove 972 



Swill-barrels and troughs 973 



Cooking food for hogs 974 



Experience of swine-raisers 975 



Green food for hogs.. 977 



Grass and clover 978 



Confining hogs 979 



Winter care of. 980 



Fattening 982 



Feeding, Science of 983 



Experiments in 986 



When to fatten 987 



How much pork from a bushel 



of corn 989 



The hog as a manure-maker... 990 



TAGGING table for sheep 422 



Tenants on farms 31 



Testing clover-seed 138 



Tether-pin 415 



Texas (or Spanish) Cattle 768 



Tile for draining: their size 61 



Where to be laid 62 



Tile-hoe or pull-scoop 69 



Timber-growing 366 



Timothy grass 120 



