Raiscot, Alfred, report 271 Rake, Monarch 262 Side delivery 87 Time to start 84 Range of soils 16, 17 Rape, analysis 127 And alfalfa for hogs compared 162 Ration, balanced 134 Balanced, explained 135 Cost of 150, 151 Money value 138 Unbalanced 134 Receipts 22, 23, 25 Recleaning seed, importance 32 Recleaning to remove dodder 42 Redding, Prof. R. J., report 250 Red-top and alfalfa compared 148 Yields 21 Renewing growth 71 Rentals of land 26 Reseeding 65, 66, 71, 72 Rhode Island, experiments 298 Rib grass in alfalfa seed 41 Rice meal, food value 132 Richmond, Indiana 255 Rick, measuring for tonnage 229 Preferred 100 Roberts, Prof. H. F., adulterants 35 Robinson, J. W., raises horses 165 Rome, alfalfa taken to 1 Roofing 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 alfalfa 18 Various kinds to feed 145 _Rural New-Yorker_, article quoted 17 Rutabagas, fodder value 126 Rye bran, food value 132 Grass yields 21