INDEX TO YEAKBOOKS, 1901-1905. 145 



Steam railroad lines, extension, growth of rural population, 1903, 455. 



use with vacuum for preservation of wood, 1903, 436. 

 Steamships, inspection for animal-carrying trade, 1901, 18. 

 "Stecklinger," definition, use, etc., 1904, 349, 350, 351. 

 Steer-feedmg investigations iu Alabama, 1904, 536. 

 Steers, feeding on live-stock farm, 1902, 357, 358. 



See also Cattle, Live stock, etc. 

 Stegomyia fasciata, mosquito, spread of yellow fever, 1901, 191. 

 Sterilization of soil in growing roses, discussion, 1902, 555. 



Steeling, E. A., article on "Attitude of lumbermen toward forest fires," 1904 133- 



140. 

 "How to grow young trees for forest planting," 1905, 183- 



Stock breeders' associations, list, 1901, 624: 1902, 676-690; 1903, 521-523; 1904 551- 

 553; 1905, 575-577. 

 danger from poisonous plants, investigations, remarks, 1904, 49-50. 

 farming, soiling crops, note, 1904, 42, 

 feed, use of beets, remarks, 1901, 496. 

 feeding, discussion, 1904, 39-42. 



forage and grasses, investigations, 1904, 39-42. 

 use of macaroni wheat, 1903, 335. 

 Florida, lack of feed and demand for range plants, 1904, 40. 

 live, and grass lands, Alaska, 1904, 100-101. 



exhibitions, educational value, article by George M. Kommel, 1902, 259- 

 264. 

 methods of "running" and effect on range and woods, 1901, 340. 

 poisoning, remedy, 1901, 28. 



raising as a profitable industry in Porto Rico, 1901, 506. 

 ranges, new remedy for sheep poisoning, 1902, 22. 

 See also Live stock. 

 Stockmen, disputes and encounters over control of grazing areas, 1901, 93, 94; 1905, 640. 

 Stocks for top working young trees, remarks, 1902, 251. 

 Stoddard plum, origin and description, 1902, 478-479. 

 Stomach worm, transmission in pastures, 1905, 150. 

 Stone, description and cost in road building at Jackson, Tenn., 1904, 325, 327, 331, 333. 



fruits, diseases, 1901, 669; 1902, 716; 1903, 550; 1904, 583; 1905, 604-605. 

 Stones, removal from land for irrigation, cost, note, 1903, 240. 

 Storage, apple, magnitude of business, crude drugs, 1903, 228, 254. 



apples, importance of storage promptly after packing, 1903, 233. 

 cold, relation to commercial apple culture, 1903, 225-238. 

 farm products, discussion, 1902, 601. 

 fruit, effect of handling, 1905, 47. 

 relation of cooling, 1905, 48. 

 remarks, 1904, 45. 

 fruits, study and experiment, 1903, 32. 

 of wine, management, 1904, 372. 

 rainfall, capacity of surface of land, 1902, 232. 

 saving from insects injurious to stored products, 1905, 83. 

 tobacco seed, note, 1904, 449. 

 See also Cold storage. 

 Stored foods. See Foods. 



grains, etc., insects injurious, investigations, 1902, 87; 1903, 77; 1904, 473-474; 

 1905, 630. 

 Storing grapes, 1902, 412. 



Storm and hurricane warnings. Weather Bureau, explanation, 1903, 119. 

 resistance, breeding of cotton, remarks, 1902, 385. 

 warning, display of flags and lights, beginning, growth, 1903, 109, 110. 

 equipment of Weather Bureau, discussion, 1902, 11-12. 

 service, note, 1904, 15. 

 Storms, local, failure of weather records as evidence, court, 1903, 308. 

 Stover, corn fodder, saving by use, remarks, 1904, 96. 



excess, suggestion as to use of salt on soil, 1901, 165. 

 Stramonium, cultivation and gathering, 1903, 345. 

 Strasburger, study of citrus fruit polyembryony, remarks, 1904, 226. 

 Straw, flax, problem of use in United States, note, 1902, 421-422. 



rye, use in protection of young trees from mice, etc., 1901, 603. 

 Strawberries, cooling before shipment, 1905, 358, 



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