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INDEX 



Seed, 10, 11-15; of abaca, 



139- 



Seed beds, 65, 66. 



Seed coats, n, 13. 



Selection of seed, of coco- 

 nut, 129; of maize, 97. 



Shade, 33; and abaca, 



139- 



Shade trees, 33, 139. 



Shoot, 9. 



Silk-cotton tree, 149. 



Sinamay, 134. 



Sisal, 144. 



Sitao, 77. 



Soil, 16-23; cultivation 

 for maize, 98; in gar- 

 den, 63, 64. 



Solanum, 86. 



Sour sop, 185. 



Spore, 189; of fungi, 58. 



Squashes, 73-75. 



Squash, seed, 13. 



Stamens, 189. 



Starch, 32, 82-89; in 

 banana, 176; manu- 

 facture, 85; rice, 106. 



Starch plants, 82-89. 



Stem, 9. 



Sterilize, 189. 



Stigma, 189. 



Storage, of mango, 182. 



Stripping abaca, 141. 



Structure of soil, 21-23. 



Style, 189; of maize, 92. 



Subsoil, 189. 



Sugar, 32; cane, 112-121. 



Sulphur, 25. 



Sumatra tobacco, 155, 



156- 



Sweet potato, 67. 

 Sweet sop, 185. 



Talahib, 113. 



Talong, 80. 



Tapioca, 86. 



Taro, 68. 



Tax, on tobacco, 152. 



Tegmen, n, 13. 



Temperature, in Philip- 

 pines, 46; of coconut 

 leaf, 126. 



Testa, ii, 13. 



Texas, rice cultivation, 

 109. 



Threshing machine, in. 



Tobacco, 150-159; need 

 of shade, 34; used in 

 fighting insects, 56. 



Tomato, 80. 



Tools, 64. 



Transpiration, 36. 

 Transpiration stream, 36. 

 Transplanting, 40; rice, 



108. 



Tuba, 123. 

 Tuber, 86. 

 Tugui, 68. 

 Turnip, 70. 



Ubi, 68. 

 Upo, 74. 



Vacuoles, 35. 

 Vegetative parts of plants, 

 189. 



Water, 35-45; about soil 

 particles, 38, 41 ; in 

 beach soil, 127; in soil, 

 22, 63; movement, 42. 



Weather and formation of 

 soil, 17. 



Weeds, 34. 



Wild rice, 104. 



Windmills, 43. 



Worms, causing disease, 

 53- 



Yam, 68. 

 Zea, 90. 



