INDEX. 



Roan, Col. John, of Virginia, account of his valuable cider 



apple, 

 Rose, Dr. his calculations on sheep, in Susquehanna Co. 

 Rotations, and changes of crops, 



Rust, in wheat ; rolling seed in plaster, often prevents, 

 Rye, called big, French, &c. but in fact, Tangier wheat, 

 thought to be a summer grain, 

 farther account of it, - - - 



six rowed rye, - - - - - 



great increase, and how produced, 

 diseased with the ergot, (spur,) appendix, 

 S 

 Sainfoin, unsuccessful attempts to cultivate, - 21, 27 



Salt, may be brought by a canal or road into Pennsylvania, 



from Seneca lake, - . - - 276 



Salt and plaster, quantity collected in 1814, at Owego, app. 119 

 Sand, less or more in cement required, accordingly as the 



lime is strong or weak, - - - 207 



Scarcity root, or mangel wurtzel, - - - 126 



Scotland, improvement in husbandry of, - 157,158 



Season of 1813, some account of it, - - 278, &c. 



Secale cornutum, or ergot ; — diseased rye, appendix, - 5 



Seneca lake, canal between it and Tioga creek, appendix, 23, Sec, 

 piaster found there, - - 268 



See appendix, - 23, &c. 



Settlers on new lands, their practices, - - 100,101 



Shad, Schuylkill, proofs of their migration and return to 



that river, - - - 350, &c. 



Sheep, a living lamb brought forth, eighteen days after a 



dead one had been ejected, - - - 60 



their diseases similar to those of the human race, 78 



worm in the head, fatal, - - - 82 



calculations on flocks in our new countries, - 355 



common, for coarse and long wools, recommended, 362 

 ointment applied to the throat, disgusting to wolves, 366 

 preserved from dogs, by leather collars, pierced 

 with sharp nails, - - - - ib. 



