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INDEX 



Silver, 24. 



Simon, on milk, 444. 



Simulium pecuarum, 438. 



Six's thermometers, 1. 



Size, measure, 528. 



Sizes of seeds, 98. 



Skeleton of cock, 368. 



Skeletonizing plants, 549. 



Slime on ponds, 251. 



Smilax, 198. 



Smith, J. B., on mosquitoes, 247. 



Smoking for insects, 287. 



Smudging for frosts, 16; for insects, 



287. 

 Smut of cereals, 260, 261, 262; of 



corn, 269 ; of onions, 274. 

 Snails. 305. 

 Snyder, quoted, 28. 

 Soap insecticide, 293, 298, 299. 

 Societies, rural, 560. 

 Soda-and-aloes insecticide, 299. 

 Sodium, 24, 25. 

 Soil analysis, 54 ; chapter on, 24 ; 



diseases, 284 ; taking samples, 543. 

 Soiling, 133, 134. 

 Solid measure, 518. 

 Sorghum, fertilizer for, 75 ; seed, 



weight, 538. 

 Sow, gestation, 342, 343. 

 Sow-thistle, 231. 

 Spain, money, 523. 

 Span, a measure, 528. 

 Spanish money, 522, 523. 

 Sparrows, 244. 

 Spearmint under gla.ss, 190. 

 Specific gravity of soils, 31. 

 Specimen jars, 558. 

 Specks in butter, 461. 

 Speltz, weight, 540. 

 Spermojjhile.s, 241. 

 Sphaceloma ampelinum, 271. 

 Sphajropsis malorum, 264, 280. 

 Spha;rotheca castagnei, 282 ; leuco- 



tricha, 264 ; mors-uvse, 271 ; pan- 



nosa, 276, 281. 

 Spinach, diseases, 281 ; fertilizer for, 



75 ; packages, 170 ; under glass, 



190; weight, 540. 

 Spiny amaranth, 229. 

 Spirogyra in p(jnd.s, 251. 

 Split-log drag, 487. 

 Spoonful, measure, 528. 



Spoon-test for oleomargarin, 455. 

 Spraying cattle, 433 ; plants, 252, 286. 

 Square measure, 518. 

 Squashes, package, 171; storing, 147; 



fertilizer for, 76; insects, 331. 

 Squirrel, gestation, 342, 343. 

 Stable manure, 81. 

 Stables, to disinfect, 434. 

 Stacks, contents of, 530. 

 Stags, grades of, 404, 407. 

 Stake labels, 557. 

 Standardizing milk, 450. 

 Starch, 29. 

 Stassfurt salts, 42. 

 State flowers, 185. 

 Steam, sterilizing by, 253. 

 Stebler and Schroeter, 94. 

 Steers, grades of, 404 ; profit or loss, 



362. 

 Sterilizing by steam, 253. 

 Stevenson, on soil, 30, 32. 

 Stewart, J. P., quoted, 49. 

 Stigmaeus fioridanus, 328. 

 Stocks, 198. 



Stocks for various plants, 131. 

 Stone, J. L., on feeding, 424. 

 Stone, a measure, 528. 

 Storing fruits and vegetables, 141, 149; 



animal products, 345. 

 Storms, 2. 



Straits Settlements, money, 523. 

 Straw, grading, 151, 152; composi- 

 tion, 28. 

 Strawberries, packages, 171 ; to pre- 

 serve for exhibition, 556 ; weight, 

 540 ; diseases, 282 ; fertilizer for, 

 76; insects, 332. 

 Stream, power of, 502. 

 String beans, packages, 170. 

 String, waxed, 513. 

 Strontium, 24. 



Strychnine, composition, 29 ; for mice, 

 235 ; for sparrows, 244 ; for ground 

 .squirrels, 241, 242. 

 Sugar, composition, 29. 

 Sugar-cane, insects, 333 ; seed, weight, 



540. 

 Sulfate of ammonia, analysis, 58. 

 Sulfate of copper as fungicide, 258: 



for bordeaux, 253; for ponds, 251. 

 Sulfate of iron as fungicide, 258. 

 Sulfate of magnesia, analysis, 58. 



