INDEX 381 
Pests, Dodder, 216. 
Finger-and-toe, 310. 
Plant-louse, 183. 
Phosphouie acid (see Fertilizers). 
— in hay, Peunsylvania and Illinois, 
321, 322, 
Plant-food: 
Demand, 40. 
For summer crops, 101. 
Plans for rotation, 38. 
Plant-louse, 183. e 
Piwsmodiophora brassice, 310. 
Potato, 290. 
Sweet, 290. 
Preparation of soil, 24, 41. 
— — Alfalfa, 211. 
— — Barnyard millet, 76. 
— — Barley, 64. 
— — Bermuda-grass, 330. 
— — Brome grass, 372. 
— — Broon-corn millet, 90. 
— — Cabbage, 302. 
— — Carrot, 288. 
-~ — Clover, alfalfa, 211. 
— — — alsike, 210. 
— —— crimson, 244. 
— — Corn, 131. 
——-— silage, 154. 
— — Foxtail millet, 84. 
-— Kafir corn, 107. 
— Mangels, 280. 
~ — Meadows, 313. 
— — Mixed grasses and clovers, 195. 
— — Oats-and-peas, 177. 
— — Orchard-grass, 66. 
— — Pasture, 325. 
—— Rape, 293. 
—— Rye, 50. 
— — Rye-grass, 70. 
— — Sorghum, 123. 
— — Soybean, 264. 
— — Sugar-beet, 286. 
— — Vetch, 269. 
— — Wheat, 56. 
VPrinciples underlying forage crops, 15. 
Proso millet, 90. 
Protein (see Nutrients), 6. 
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Prussian blue pea, 176. 
Pulse family, 173. 
Purple Vienna kohlrabi, 308. 
Quadroon cowpea, 254. 
Queen of Denmark sugar-beet, 286. 
Rape, 20, 292-300. 
Rations : 
Balanced, 28. 
y Dry, 27. 
Forage crop, 43. 
Succulent, 27. 
Reana luxurians, 94. 
Red-bud, 173. 
Red clover, 3, 232-238. 
— for forage, 6. 
— with corn, 4. 
Red Globe mangel, 279. 
Red-top, 10. 
— with timothy, 16, 
Regional questions, 9. 
Renewing pastures, 327. 
~ Bermuda-grass, 336. 
Brome grass, 342. 
Renovator, soil, 15. 
Rhode Island Experiment Station grass 
mixture, 203, 
Roberts, on Foxtail millet, 83. 
Robertson mixture, 272. 
Root crops ; 
Comparison with other fodders, 275. 
Group, 6. 
Rotatiou: 
Cabbage, 301. 
Eust and West, 17. 
EHight-year, for hay, 321. 
Four-year, 22. 
Improvement of, 17. 
Legume, 16, 17. 
Purpose, 14. 
Roughage crops, definition, 1. 
— dry, for winter, 8. 
Rural Branching doura, 97. 
Rural Thoroughbred White Flint corn, 
133, 
Russian Brome grass, 338-343, 
