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Rubber, 16,3. 

 Rusts, 200, .201. 

 Rye, 122, 124. 



Sand, 23, 29. 



San Jose scale, 243. 



Scale insects, 234, 236. 



Scions, 54. 



Seasons, 14. 



Seedbed, 46-48. 



Seedlings, 54. 



Seeds, 49-51. 



Semiarid land, 32, 249, 256. 



Sheep, 216-221. 



Shetland pony, 208. 



Shire, 209. 



Shorthorn, 213. 



Shropshire Downs, 216. 



Shrubbery, 262. 



Silage, 79. 



Silo, 79. 



Silk, 229. 



Silk worms, 229. 



Silt, 23. 



Smuts, 200-203. 



Soil, 21-25. 



kinds of, 23. 

 Soil mulch, 35, 105. 

 Sorghums, 91. 

 Spelt, 101. 

 Spices, 161. 

 Spring wheat, 97. 

 Squashes, 148. 

 Starch, 238-240. 

 Stocks, 54. 



Stone fruits, 171-175. 

 Strawberries, 186. 

 Subsoil, 23. 

 Suffolk Punch, 209. 

 Sugar, 62, 238. 

 Sugar beets, 138. 

 Sugar cane, 136-137. 

 Sugar plants, 135-140. 

 Sunlight, 60. 

 Sunshine, 17. 

 Sweet clover, 85. 

 Sweet potatoes, 143-146. 



Swine, 222-224. 

 Swiss, 213. 



Tarn worth, 223. 

 Tannin, 163. 

 Tea, 158, 159. 

 Texture of soil, 28. 

 Texas fever, 232. 

 Threshing machine, 99. 

 Ticks, 232. 

 Tillage, 35-39- 

 Tillers, 97, 114. 

 Timothy, 83-86. 

 Toad, 243. 

 Tobacco, 150-153. 

 Tomatoes, 47, 156. 

 Topsoil, 23. 

 Transplanting, 57-60. 

 Tubercles, 68. 

 Turkeys, 227. 

 Twine, 133. 

 Typhoid fever, 233. 



Underdrainage, 253-255. 

 Useful birds, 241. 



Vanilla bean, 164. 

 Variation, 246. 

 Vegetables, 65, 154, 156. 

 Vetches, 93. 



Walnuts, 189, 190. 

 Watermelons, 147. 

 Water power, 71. 

 Water supply, 1 1 . 

 Weather Bureau, 18. 

 Weeds, 198-202. 

 Wheat, 97-102. 

 White clover, 85. 

 Windbreaks, 194. 

 Windmills, 71. 

 Winds, 17. 

 Winter wheat, 97. 

 Woodlots, 12, 196. 

 Wyandottes, 235. 



Yellow fever, 232. 

 Yorkshire, 223. 



