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Kansas, Continued 



Profit from hogs •••^§^ 



Profit in 22, 23, 25 



Preventing bloat Ill 



Protein in cuttings 81 



Seed 29 



Seed raising 90 



Self-binder for harvest- 

 ing 88 



Sheep fattened 171, 285 



Siloing 102 



Soiling and pasturing . . . 123 



Sowing 57 



Spring sowing 55 



Station disfavors salt ...100 



Station on baling 103 



Stock feeding 103 



Storing in 90 



Time to sow . . , . , 47 



Third cutting for seed . . 91 



Wheat after alfalfa 193 



Wintering horses ..167 



Work with scrub cows . . 143 

 Kenilworth Farms, Ari- 

 zona 235 



Kent County, Delaware •..249 

 ETentucky, experiments ...263 



Kiefer H. W., report 251 



Kilgore, Dr. B. W., report, 



286 



Kirk, F. S., pasturing 113 



Yield 24 



X«abor prices 204 



Saved 25 



Lake County, South Da- 

 kota .295 



Lamb-feeding, Nebraska ..172 



Lambs, fattening 46 



Fort Colhns .,..173 



On pasture .114 



Never bloat 172 



Pasturage for 48 



Quarter in seed 35 



Land, alfalfa on bottom . . 24 

 Foul, unfit for alfalfa... 59 



Values improved 204 



Worthless made valuable 



25 



Langston, Alva, yield 24 



Lantz, Prof. D, E., gopher 



injuries ..213 



Large alfalfa roots ....... 18 



Latitude Influence on seed, 



PAGK 

 Leaching, winter prevented, 



^ • 48 



Leaf spot 63, 211 



Legumes, bacteria on 60 



Prepare soil 49 



Leaves and stems, feed 



value compared 82 



Broken by tedder 84 



Lost in curing ...80, 82, 183 



Help in curing 83 



Proportion to stems ....128 



Saved by slings 94 



Pay for floor *99 



Value 79 



Lewis, D. C, report 278 



Light discolors seed 31 



Liggett, Prof. W. M., re- 

 port 268 



Lime, air slaked • 66 



Injuries 66 



Must be applied 64 



Needed 45, 201 



Prevents mold 100 



Small dressings advis- 

 able BQ 



Soil for ............... 231 



Liming 249 



Connecticut 248 



Massachusetts 265 



Ohio .- 2S8 



Lincoln County, Nebraska. 274 

 Linseed meal and alfalfa 



compared 127 



Feed composition 137 



Replaced by alfalfa 151 



Listing waxy ground 52 



Litmus for testing soil .... 45 



lioader, disadvantages .... 05 



Loading, slings ........... 94 



Localities influence seed... 28 



Logan County, Idaho 2'>2 



Long Island, experiments. .285 

 Loss from impure seed ... 32 



Losses due to wetting 81 



In curing 82 



Louisiana, alfalfa in 14 



Cutting in 89 



Experiments 2<33 



Lowdcn, F. M., report ..,.307 

 Lucerne, book dedicated to 



Jeflterson 3 



Intermediate 76 



Origin of name ......... 4 



Tellow 7 



Lumps, soil, bad , • 50 



