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AGRICULTURAL INDEX 



Pork — Preservation — Continued 



Drv-curing pork. Kimball's D F 14:30 Ja 15 

 •16; Same cond. Wallaces' F 41:81 Ja 21 '16 



Farmers' experience meeting; good ideas for 

 hog-killing season. Prog F 33:1282 N 23 '18 



Handling and preservation of pork and pork 

 products. W Va Ag Dept B 19:1-15 '16 



Hog butchering and pork curing. P. F. Trow- 

 bridge, il Mo Ag Ext C 42:1-16 '17 



Hog-killing-time recipes. Prog F 33:1290 N 23 

 '18 



Home butchering. Hoard's D 52:811 D 29 '16 



Plome curing and smoking of pork. A. Han- 

 sen. J Ag (Quebec) 21 :123 F '18 



Home curing of pork. J. A. Simms. 11 Conn 

 Ag Coll Ext B 11:1-14 '17 



Home-curing pork. A. P. Spencer. Fla Ag Ext 

 B 11:1-8 '17 



Killing hogs and curing meat, il Swine World 

 5:8-10 D '17 



Killing hogs and curing pork. F. G. Ashtarook 

 and G. A. Anthony, il Farmers' B 913:1-39 

 '18 (rev.) 



My job on hog-killing day. M. L. Magruder. 

 il Country Gent 82:2039 D 22 '17 



Pork steaks in jars. Country Gent 81:616 Mr 

 11 '16 



Rules concerning preparation of pork prod- 

 ucts customarily eaten without cooking. 

 (Service and regulatory announcements — 

 B. A. I. 128) p 131-4 '18 U S Ag 



Smoking meat. Wallaces' F 43:1561 O 25 'IS 



Some meat- saving hints. K. Perkins. Prog F 

 31:1438 D 9 '16 



Two methods of curing pork. Wallaces' F 

 42:1425 O 19 '17 

 See also Bacon; Sausage; Smokehouses 



Prices 



* Hog product prices, (/h Official statement, 

 no. 7, p. 13-14) '18 U.S. Food administra- 

 tion, Washington, D.C. 



Statistics 



Commercial stocks of fresh pork; Commercial 

 stocks of cured hams, bacon and shoulders, 

 and other cured pork, Jan. 1. U S Food 

 Surveys 1:4-6, 20-5 Je 29 '18 

 Commercial stocks of hams, bacon, and 

 shoulders, and other cured pork, July 1. 

 U S Food Surveys 2:4-9 S 30 '18 

 Market hogs show increase in weight. J. M. 

 Carroll. Swine World 5:21 Mr '18 

 Porometers 



Use of the porometer in stomatal investiga- 

 tion. R. C. Knight, bibliog Ann Bot 30:57- 

 76 Ja '16 



See also Stomatograph 

 Portable fences. See Fences, Portable 

 Portland, Oregon. See Milk supply — Portland, 



Oregon 

 Portland cement 



Recovery of potash as a by-product *in the 

 manufacture of Portland cement. J: J. 

 Porter. Am Fert 49:58-f Ag 31 '18 



Porto Rico 



Forests of Porto Rico, past, present, and 

 future, and their physical and economic en- 

 vironment. L: S. Murphy, bibliog il map 

 U S Ag B 354:1-99 '16 



See uJso subhead Porto Rico under Agri- 

 culture, Bee culture. Botany, Forests and 

 forestry, Plants, Trees 

 Agriculture and labor, Commissioner of 

 Report, 1917. 545-62p '17 Porto Rico Comr. 

 of ag. and labor, San Juan 



Description and travel 



Porto Rico and its beekeepers. H: Brenner. 



il Am Bee J 56:380 N '16 

 Porto Rico agricultural experiment station 

 Report, 1916. il Porto Rico Ag Exp Rep 1916: 



1-31 '18 

 Report, 1917. il Porto Rico Ag Exp Rep 1917: 



1-40 '18 



Porto Rico insular experiment station 



5th report of the Board of commissioners of 

 agriculture for the period from July 1, 1915, 

 to June 30, 1916. lOlp '17 Porto Rico bd. of 

 com. of ag., Rio Piedras 



Contains Reports of the Director, Plant 

 breeder, Pathologist, Entomologist, Chemist, 

 also Report on tobacco and vegetable in- 

 sect investigations 

 Annual report for the period from July 1, 

 1916-June 30, 1917. Porto Rico Insular Exp 

 Rep 1916-1917:1-131 '17 



This constitutes the 7th annual report of 

 the experimental work conducted by this 

 Station, the others of the series having' been 

 issued as bulletins one, two and five of the 

 Sugar producers' association and the thir3, 

 fourth and fifth reports of the Board of 

 commissioners of agriculture 

 Portraits 

 Some remarkable portraits of children that 

 have won fame for their ci'eators. il Coun- 

 try Life 33:106 N '17 

 Portugal 



See also Agricultural cooperative credit 

 associations — Portvigal; Food control — Por- 

 tugal 



Labor, Minister of 

 Loi n. 494 creant un ministere du travail et 

 de la prevoyance sociale; Decret n. 2354 

 (rectifi§) relatif a, I'organisation du service 

 du ministeie du travail et de la prevoyance 

 sociale, cree en vertu de la loi n. 494 du 16 

 mars 1916. Int Yearbook Ag Leg 1916:821-8 

 '17 

 Portuguese Guinea. See Agricultural products — • 



Portuguese Guinea 

 Postal rates 

 Postal law will kill national publications. 

 Kimball's D F 16:106 F 15 '18 

 Postal savings banks 

 Loi modiflant la loi du 25 juin 1910 autorisant 

 le s^steme de I'epargne postale, et visant 

 aussi d'autres fins aux fitats-Unis d'Ameri- 

 Que. Int Yearbook Ag Leg 1916:970-1 '17 

 Postal service 

 Motor trucks used in rural mail service, il 



Power F 27:58 Je '18 

 Must farmers 'pay more for mail than other 

 people pay? C. Poe. Prog F 32:887 Ag 18 '17 

 See also Parcel post; Rural free delivery 



Posts, Concrete 



Reinforcement for concrete posts. Scientific 

 Am (233 Broadway, IST.Y. 10c) 118:109 F 2 

 '18 

 See also Guide posts. Concrete 

 Posts, Fence. See Fence posts 

 Potash 



Abvssinian potash mine. Am Fert 47:48 Ag 18 

 •17 



Alsatian potash. Am Fert 46:68 My 26 '17 



Alunite deposits of Australia and their utili- 

 zation. (B. 3) 38p bibliog il maps '17 Advis- 

 ory council of science and industry, Mel- 

 bourne, Australia 



Alunite near Marvsvale, Utah. (In Am. fer- 

 tilizer hdbk., 1917, p. 80-1) $1 '17 Ware bros. 

 CO., 1010 Arch St., Philadelphia 

 * America independent of German potash. Iron 

 Trade R (Penton bldg., Cleveland, O. 15c) 

 63:959-60 O 24 '18 



American made potash. J. C. Pridmore. Am 

 Fert 48:78-9 Ap 13 '18 



American potash found in Nebraska lake, il 

 Rural N Y 77:1305, 1326 N 23-30 '18 



American potasli once more. Rural N Y 75: 

 775 My 20 '16 



American svipplies of potash. Rural N Y 77: 

 762 Je 8 '18 



Another cement potash installation. Am Fert 

 48:36 My 11 '18 



Another potash recovery plant. Am Fert 48:34 

 Mr 2 '18 



Availability of potash fertilizer residue in the 

 soil. Pa Ag Exp B 147:38-40 '17 



