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Poultry thrive on 180 



Prairie dogs, destroying ..215 



Injure alfalfa 212 



Preparation, proper 220 



Soil 46 



Preparatory crops 49, 50 



Presses for baling: 104 



Press drills favored 56 



Prices received 22, 23 



Profit reduced in feeding 



cows 146 



Profits 22, 23, 25, 144, 147 



Protection, winter 108 



From sun not needed ... 58 

 Protein, abundance in al- 

 falfa 125 



And carbohydrates not 



interchangeable 136 



Digestible 126 



Excess in ration 137 



Function of 134 



Highest in first cutting.. 129 



In clover. 20, 21 



Increased by irrigation . . 75 



In early cuttings 81 



In hay . , 76 



Percentage in leaves .... 79 

 Values, various feeds ...145 



Provence, seed from 32 



Prowers County, Colorado, 



245 



Purgatives for bloat 122 



Quebec, alfalfa in ♦ , 15 



Quicklime very caustic ... 66 

 Kain, cutting after ....... 82 



Hay-caps 89 



Rain-fall effect on hay 75 



Influence on seed ....... 28 



Raiscot, Alfred, report ....270 



Rake, Monarch 262 



Side delivery 87 



Time to start 84 



Range of soils 16, 17 



Rape, analysis 127 



And alfalfa for hogs com- 

 pared 162 



Ration, balanced 134 



Balanced, explained ....135 



Cost of 150, 151 



Money value ....* 138 



Unbalanced 134 



Receipts 22, 23, 25 



Recleaning seed, impor- 

 tance ,. 32 



PAGB 



Recleaning to remove dod- 

 der 42 



Redding, Prof. R. J., re- 

 port 250 



Redtop and alfalfa com- 

 pared 148 



Yields 21 



Renewing Growth 71 



Rentals of land 26 



Reseeding 65, 66, 71, 72 



Rhode Island, experiments, 



292 



Rib grass in alfalfa seed . . 41 



Rice meal, food value 132 



Richmond, Indiana 255 



Rick, measuring for ton- 

 nage 229 



Rick preferred 100 



Roberts, Prof. H. P., adul- 

 terants 35 



Robinson, J. W., raises 



horses 165 



Rome, alfalfa taken to . . . 1 



Roofinir for hay sheds 99 



Root growth 190 



Growth, physical effect.. 6 



System 6 



Roots, deep 6 



Nitrogen in soil from ... 10 

 Spindling, with nurse 



crop 58 



Thumb-sized 18 



Value of 21, 191 



Rot, root 212 



Rotation necessary 194 



Roughness supplied by al- 

 falfa 18 



Various kinds to feed ... 145 

 Rural ¥e«?-Yorfcer, article 



quoted 17 



Rutabagas, fodder value... 126 



Rye bran, food value 132 



Grass yields 21 



Winter cover 48, 49 



Sacramento River, growth. 241 



Sagebrush, land for 252 



Land, new alfalfa on ... 15 



Sales 22, 23 



Salt River, irrigation 236 



Salt in storing hay 100 



San Mateo County, Califor- 

 nia 238 



San Miguel County, New 

 Mexico ..,.,..,. 281 



