INDEX 



333 



Potato, varieties of, 14. 

 Potatoes, 1, 96, 108. 

 Potatoes and muriate, 96. 

 Potatoes, tilling, ICO. 

 Potatoes, water in, 47. 

 Potential plant-food, 3C 

 Poultry, breeds of, 260. 

 Poultry-raising, 3, 203. 

 Prairies, stock on, 266. 

 Precipices, 30. 

 Precipitate, 235. 

 Precipitation, 59. 

 Prepotent, 261. 



reventives for pests, 167. 

 Principles, 15. 

 Principles of pruning, 165. 

 Propagation of plants, 132. 

 Prophylaxis, 175. 

 Proteids, 247, 248. 

 Protein, 243, 244, 248. 

 Protoplasm, 113, 127. 

 Proventrieulus, 220, 235. 

 Pruning, 163. 

 Ptomaines, 224, 236. 

 Ptyalin, 216, 233. 

 Puddling, 68. 

 Pump, 7, 169, 170, 177. 

 Pumpkin, germination, 124. 

 Pure-blood stock, 263. 

 lurse, 278. 



Quack-grass, 31. 



Quadrupeds, 201. 



Quantity of food, 250, 258, 266 



Quarries, 30. 



Quarter, 273. 



Quick-lime, 40, 97. 



Quince, propagation, 144. 



Quinces, 109. 



Quinine, 109. 



Rabbits, 204. 



Ragweed, 31. 



Rain drops, 35. 



Rainfall, 48, 50, 59, 63, 107. 



Rakes, 69. 



Range, 263. 



Rape, 79. 



Ratio, nutritive, 247, 357. 



Ration, 214, 250, 271. 



Red-clover is tap-rooted, 146, 147 



Red-top, 181, 190. 



Refuse, 78. 



Regennination, 136. 



Remedies for pests, 167. 



Rennet, 235. 



Reservoir for water, 54, 63, 67. 



Resources of soil, 25. 



Respiration in animals, 224. 



Respiration in plants, 117. 



Rest of animals, 228. 



Resting the land, 80. 



Retentive soils, 38, 39. 



Reverted phosphate, 95. 



Ribs, 273. 



Rice, 108. 



Rill, 35. [179,259. 



Roberts, I. P., chapters by, 145, 



Roberts, quoted, 25, 35, 36, 45, 63, 



72, 74, 76, 84, 86, 105, 207. 

 Rock and soil, 16, 42. 

 Roller, 71, 76, 155. 

 Root crops, 96. 

 Root, evolution of, 31. 

 Root, growth of, 121, 131. 

 Root-hairs, 113, 124. 

 Root-pressure, 115, 125. 

 Root-pruning, 165. [32, 8b, 104. 

 Roots and soil formation, 16. 21, 

 Rose-bug, 175. 

 Rot of plum, 175. 

 Rotation, 79, 179, 197, 207. 

 Rotation and pests, 168. 



