340 



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Seeding:, Continued 



Soaking soil before 73 



Seeder, Cahoon 234 



Gem 242 



Seeders, various ."(5 



Seeds dead 27 



Fertile few 89 



Seedsmen to blame for bad 



seed 41 



Selection of seed 27, 28 



Self sowing- third crop 72 



Self-binder, harvesting with 



88 



In seed harvest 90 



Selling inoculated soil 61 



Separator, J. I. Case 237 



Separators in threshing 



seed 91 



Shed, hay 99 



Sheep, dangers to, from 



pasturing 109, 113 



Eat bindweed 21!) 



Fort Collins 174 



Losses from bloat 113 



Old, kept off pasture 114 



Shepperd, Prof. J. H., re- 

 port 2S9 



Sifting out dodder 42 



Silage for cows l'»2 



Storing as 101 



Superior to hay 151 



Silo, advantages of using.. 151 



Cost of 152 



For alfalfa 101 



Siloing suggestions 102 



Slings in stacking 94 



Smead, Dr. D. C, horse 



feeding 108 



Smith, Prof. C. D., report.. 268 

 Smith, Prof. H. R., feed 



test , 139 



Smothering under wind- 

 rows ' S4 



In wet land ^^ 



Snake River irrigation 2.')l 



Soaking soil before seed- 

 ing '•'^ 



Sod, breaking, for alfalfa.. 50 



Hard to plow 105 



Soil acid, unfavorable 44 



Acidity determined 45 



Adobe 239 



And seeding 44 



Baked, avoid 4b 



PAGE 

 Soil, Continued 



Bur clover for Inoculat- 

 ing 00 



Buying inoculated ....60, 61 



Buying not necessary. 61 



Buying infected 60 



Buying, objections to.... 61 

 - Character affects irriga- 

 tion 77 



Conditions demanded.... 52 



Conditions essential 46 



Depleted, improved 16 



Diseased, for inoculation. 62 



For alfalfa 15 



Gumbo 201 



Hardpan 16. 18 



Improve* by alfalfa., 16. 190 

 Improvement due to al- 

 falfa 16 



Inoculated for sale 61 



Inoculated, quantity to 



acre 61 



Inoculation 59, 197 



Inoculation, dangers of. . 62 

 Inoculation, meal or hay 



for 63 



Inoculation, not neces- 

 sary 63, 64 



Listed 52 



Never work wet 46 



Not exhausted by alfalfa 



10 



Preparation 46, 2!)7 



Preparing, Arizona. 233, 2.3'5 



Preparing, Colorado 243 



Preparation, Washington 



314 



Restrictions, obsolete 44 



Robbed of lime 44 



Rocky 19 



Sugar tree land 2a5 



Waxy 52 



Wet makes failures 44 



Soiling 107, 122 



Advised in East 124 



And pasturing compared 



Nebraska, 123 



Pigs 124 



Sorghum analysis 127 



Bad to precede alfalfa.. 49 



Consumes moisture 49 



Fails to increase milk 



flow 148 



Fed with alfalfa 125 



