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INDEX 



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Potato, seed 5, G, 173 



Stalk Weevil 126 



Worm 125, 126 



Preparation of Land 21-23 



Pressure Required for Spraying. 140 



Prices, Average 153 



Farm 157 



in Eastern and Central States . 159 



Production 153-157 



Propagation 171 



Pumps 140 



Quality, Cooking 70 



Influence of Depth of Tubers 



on 96 



Quick Death 135 



Rainfall, Amount Sufficient . 48, 49 



Rape as a Cover Crop 29 



Respiration 9,10,152 



Influence of Temperatore 



on 9, 10 



Rhizoctoniasolani 118, 179 



Roads 158 



Roots 6, 10, 55 



Character of 11,14,15 



Depth of 11, 14, 15 



Effects of Tillage on 14 



Rosette Disease 118, 179 



Rot, or Late Blight . 112, 113-117, 121 

 Rotation . 26-29, 116, 118, 119, 121, 127 



Factors in 26, 27, 50 



Five-course 26 



Four-course 26 



Leguminous Crops in a . . 27, 28 



Maine 26 



Ohio 27 



Three-course 26 



Rust-resistant Varieties of 



Wheat 82 



Rye 27-29, 120 



Sack-holder 162 



Sacks, Cost of 161,162 



Scab 119, 121 



Scheele's Green . . .' 135 



Season, Influence of 66, 111 



Second Growth 12,85 



Seed 5,6,173 



Amount per Acre 63, 64 



Bud, Stem Ends, and Middles. G6 



Cost of 64 



Cutting 60 



Effect of Insufficient Amount. 104 

 Importance of a Good Strain 



of 51,53 



Proper Storage of .... 52,53 



Selection 52,74,175 



Influence of Altitude .... 52 

 Management Previous to 

 Planting 53 



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Seed, Methods of Storing . . 53, 54 

 Northern and Southern ... 51 

 Relation of Number of Stalks 



to the Eyes on 62, 63 



Relation of Weight to Viabil- 

 ity of 67 



Single Eyes 62,64 



Size of 61-05, 67, 175 



Source of ' . . . 51 



Sprouting 53-60 



Time to Cut 61 



Treatment for Diseases ... 179 

 Uses of Second Crop for . 52,53 



Viability of 66, 69 



Whole and Cut 60-63, 65 



Seed-balls 1,5,173 



Selection 52, 175 



Shape of Tuber 5,71,78 



Shovel, Potato 147 



Size of Tubers, Variation in . . 75 



Skin 5, 71, 78, 120 



Color of 76 



Cracked 84 



Desirable 78 



Soil Moisture, Conservation of 



22,23 



Soils 17-25, 153 



Changes in 41 



Chemical Composition and 



Crop Producing Power of . 30 

 Composition of New York . 39 

 Diminished Crop Producing 



Power of 18 



Ingredients Removed by Pota- 

 toes from 39, 40 



Preparation of 21-23 



Relationship of Varieties to 19, 87 



Sandy Loam 17 



Solanum commersoni 1 



Solatium jamesii 1 



maglia 1 



tuberosum 1, 3 



var. Boreale 1 



Soluble Phosphate of Lime . . 43 



Sorters, Mechanical 162 



Specific Gravity of Tubers . . 167 

 Spray Calendar ........ 178 



Spraying Attachments . . 140, 141 



Cost of 139 



Effect on Yield . . . . 132,134 



Hose 141 



Spraying, Machines 140 



Nozzles 141, 142 



Pressure Required for .... 140 



Profits from 139 



Pump 140 



Tanks 141 



Time of 134 



Sprayings, Number of ... 134, 135 

 Sprays and Spraying . . . 128-142 

 Spring-tooth Harrow .... 23, 24 

 Starch .31, 72, 73, 78, 132, 167, 170, 177 

 Content and Specific Gravity . 167 



