INDEX. 599 



vast advantages of such a management, 506. 

 Stacks, peculiar arrangement of, for the threshing-mill, 42). 

 Steaming roots for feeding stock, SUO. 



Steeping spring corn seed, 194. 



wheat seed, 453. 



Stocking farms, former and present expence of, 48 1 to 483. 

 Stones. See Picking stones. 



Straw is an improper and insufficient food for the d'aFcix-nt sorts of 

 cattle, unless cut into chaflf and mixed with hay, 9. 



practice of burning straw for manure, 397. 



the effect is produced by the warmth from the lire, and notbj 



the ashes, 398. 



quantity; this application said to be more beneficial than the 



clung which the straw would make, 398. 



burning cole-seed straw, 399. 



practice of manuring for Raves with the ashes of burnt straw, 



400. 



cattle may be served with straw (as a food) in too great plenty, 550. 



See also Threshing. 



Stulile (wheat and rye), time of cutting, and carrying to the farm- 

 yard for litter; importance, but general neglect, of this bu- 

 siness, 467. 



Swedish turnip (or Ruta Baga) ; its advantages and disadvantages 

 compared with those of Mr. Reynolds'* cabbnge-turnip, 73, 



method of drawing it in spring for a sheep feed, 157. 



its utility for hogs, raid its uncertainty, 214. 



present state of the cultivation of this plant, 262. 



the best culture is to sow it where it is to remain, broad-cast, from 

 the 10th to the end of May, 262. 



preparation, 262. 



various inducements to this culture, 263. 



quantity of seed, 263. 



sowing in June, 337- 

 Swine : directions for the management of sows and pigs, 20. 



best system to be pursued relative to providing proper crops in 

 breeding swine, 20. 



cultivation of lettuces for this purpose, I4f). 



importance of an uninterrupted succession uf these crops, 4-40. 

 annual sales, 22. 



food for weaned pigs, 22. 



fattening swine, in April, 212. 



turning the hogs of a proper age into clover or chicory in the 

 spring, a very beneficial practice, 2/5, 2/6. 



contrivance for preserving (in May) all the butter-milk and cheese- 

 whey not wanted for the present stock, 2/7 . 



soiling hogs, 2/7. 



feeding, &c. in June, 388. 



in July, 422. 



providing feed for autumn litters, 

 in October put full-grown hogs to fatten, 4Q4. 

 most profitable method of converting corn of any kind into 

 food for hogs, 4fj4. 



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