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INDEX 



Pore spaces in soil, 62 

 Potash, 402, 403 

 fertilizers, 85 

 in feeds, 404 

 manures, 404 

 muriate of, 85 

 sulfate of, 85 

 Potato beetle, 231, 232 

 diggers, 171 

 harvesting, 170, 171 

 scab, 252, 253 



Potatoes, chapter on, 162, 412 

 blight, 169, 170 

 cultivation of, 168 

 diseases, 169, 170 

 fertilizer for, 164 

 crops, 167 

 importance, 160 

 insects, 168, 169 

 Irish, 162 



origin and types, 162, 163 

 planting, 167, 168 

 plowing, 164 

 score card, 166 

 second crop, 167 

 seed, 164, 165, 166 

 soil, 163 

 spraying, 169 

 treatment for scab, 255 

 varieties, 165, 166, 168 

 weights and. yields, 171 

 Poultry, care of, 316 



chapter on, 305, 415 

 kinds of, 305 

 rations, 315 

 Powdered milk, 352 

 Principles of planting, 203 

 of spraying, 257, 258 

 Problems, 7, 16 



arithmetical, 4 

 feeds, 342 

 fertilizers, 87 

 on eggs, 320 



Products of cattle, listed, 344 

 Projects, 409 



the dairy, 344 

 Propagation of forest trees, 182, 



183, 184 

 plants, 35, 410 

 Property, value of, 366 

 Protein, 328 



in feeds, 411 



Pruning a budded tree, 38 

 annual, 208 

 care in, 210 

 choice in, 209 



currants and gooseberries, 217 

 grapes, 217 

 high and low, 208 

 illustrated, 208-211 

 instruments, 210, 212 

 methods of, 209, 210 

 practice in, 210 

 principles of, 207 

 raspberries; and blackberries, 



217 



Pruning small fruits, 216 

 time for, 210 

 young trees, 208 

 Pupa stage, 223 



Pure-bred animals, 260 



milk, difficulty in obtaining,347 



how to get, 348 

 Purity of corn, 136 



Quantity of seeds for crops, 399 

 Questions, review, see end of each 

 chapter 



Rag doll corn tester, 142 

 Rainfall, absorbing, 63 



and frost, 197 

 Rambouillet sheep, 297 

 Raspberries, 216, 217 

 Rations, balanced, 340 

 Records for dairy cows, 355, 356 



of fields, 365 



Red polled cattle, 283, 284 

 Reference books, 391 



tables, appendix, 391 



to books, 60 



References to bulletins, see Bulle- 

 tins 

 Remedies for codling-moth, 233 



curculio, 234 



flies, 229 



grain moth, 231 



mosquitoes, 227 



potato scab, 252, 253 



scale, 238 



Reversion defined, 260 

 Review questions, see end of each 



chapter 



Rings of wood, 187 

 Ripened milk and cream, 353 

 Roads, concrete, 372 



construction of, 373, 417 



drainage of, 374 



drag for, 373 



earth, 373 



grade of, 373 



gravel, 372 



importance of, 371 



kinds of, 372 



maintenance, 373 



mechanics, 371 



reasons for, 372 

 Robin arithmetic, 242 

 Roof garden, 201 

 Root crops, 97, 333 



for dairy cows, 100 



grafting, 36, 37 



hairs, 8, 9 



system of corn, 146 

 Roots, effects of drainage on, 68 



for chickens, 213 



of plants, 8 

 Rope, halter, 382 



hitches, 378, 379 



how made, 376 



knots, 376, 377, 378 



splices, long, 381 



short, 380 

 Rotation courses, 94 



of crops, benefit of, 90 

 need of, 90 

 reasons for, 88 



for dairy farms, 92 

 Rotations, a few, 92 

 quick, 93 



