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Pea meal, composition of 296, 301 



Peaches, composition of 306 



Pears, composition of, 306 



Peat, composition of, 288 



Phospliatic slag, composition of, 285 



Plant food, nature of , . . . . 196, 197 



Plaster, land, composition of . 285 



Pleomorpliism, defined 205 



Potatoes, composition of, 293, 300 



Potatoes, field experiments witb, 175, 176 



Potato scab, experiments with, 214, 223 



Poudrette, composition of, 289 



PufiF-balls, 209 



Raw Avool, composition of, 286 



E,ed-top, composition of 293, 299 



Report of Professor Humphrey, 195-230 



Rowen hay, composition of, 293, 298 



Rot of potatoes, 226 



Rusts 207 



Ruta-bagas, composition of, 295, 300 



Rye bran, composition of, 296 



Rye middlings, composition of, 296, 301 



Saltpetre waste, composition of, 284 



Sea-weeds, composition of, 288 



Sea-weed ashes, composition of, 285 



Serradella, composition of , 292, 294, 298, 299 



feeding trials with 48-58 



field trials with, 190 



Skim-milk, composition of, 312 



Smuts 206 



Smut of oats and barley, 223 



South Carolina rock phosphate, 285 



Spores, resting, 203 



Spores, summer, 203 



Spot disease, 225 



Strawberries, analyses of, 306 



Sugar in different varieties of sugar beets, . . . . . . 183, 307, 309 



in sorghum, 182 



in fruits and sugar-producing plants, 302-311 



Sugar beets, composition of, . 295, 300 



Sulphate of ammonia, composition of, 284 



of magnesia, composition of, 284 



of potash, composition of, 284 



of potash and magnesia, composition of, 284 



Tankage, composition of, 287 



Timothy hay, composition of 292, 293, 299 



Toadstools - 208 



Tobacco stems, composition of, 287 



Treasurer's report, 320 



Truffles 211 



Turf, composition of, 288 



Turnips, composition of, 295, 300 



Valuation of fertilizers, 234, 235 



Value of fodders, commercial, 44 



Value of fodders, physiological, . 45-47 



Vetch and oats, composition of, 292, 294, 298, 299 



Vetch and oats, feeding trials with, 48-59 



