Index


Rye, 71
 Giant, 51
 Mammoth, 19
 Multicole, 40
 Large Northern Prolific, 71
 Saxony, 71
Ryerson, K. A., 129, 135

Sainfoin, 51
San Francisco Bulletin, 103
Saunders, A. P., 117, 125
Saunders, Charles E., 117
Saunders, William, 56, 76, 77, 78, 80, 82,
 83, 91, 98, 111, 117, 125
Schneider, F. I. C., 77
Secretary of Agriculture, 54
Section of Seed and Plant Introduction,
 76, 111
Seed buyers, foreign, 41
Seed collection, John Q. Adams', 27
Seed exchange, 64
Seed distribution, 43, 44, 57, 60, 63, 98-
 101, 111
Seed division, 98
Seed importation, duty on, 44, 60
Seed testing, 56, 64
Seed transmitting, packing for, 142
Seedless raisins, 113
Shepard, Charles V., 84
Silk, 5, 10, 14, 60, 101, 108
Skinner, John S., 28
Smithers, E. J., 103
Smyrna fig, 103-5
Soap bean, 46
Soap tree, 22
Sorghum, 108, 121, 127-28
 distribution of seeds, 99
 promotion of, 49
 value of, 49
 varieties of
 African, 50
 Chinese, 86
 Chinese cane, 50
 durras from Egypt, white and brown,
 87
 Feterita, 127
 Hegari, 87, 127
 Planter, 87
 Sudan grass, 127
 Wray, Leonard, 50
Sorghums for sugar
 Chinese sorgo, 47
 French sorgo, 48
 promotion of, 49
Sorgo, amber, 41


South African grape, 132
South Carolina Ashley River Experiment
 Farm, 10
Southern Cultivator, (publication), 26,
 48
Southern Pacific Railroad, 102
Southern Ramie Planting Association, 72,
 74
South Texas Garden, 120
Souviron, M. J., 133
Soybean, 14, 119, 134-36
Spanish American War, influence on
 tropical agriculture, 109
Spanish St. Foin (sulla of Malta), 19
Special crops, 101, 103
Spinach, Virginia Savoy, 123
Spurry, 51; see also Vernal
State Department, 77, 145
Steere, J. B., 92
Stokes, John W., 58
Strachey, William, 5
Strawberry, alpine, 9
Sudan grass, 127
Sugar, 62, 86-89
 beet, 47, 59, 88, 99, 101, 108
 brown durra sorghum, 87
 cane, 7, 9, 41
 congressional appropriation, 89
 introduction by Jesuits, 7
 mosaic disease, 136
 varieties of
 black amber, 48
 Chinese, 86
 early amber, 87
 Minnesota early amber, 87
 Production
 cane borer, 34, 35
 assistance of navy, 30, 31
 refineries, 98
 teosinte, 87
 white durra sorghum, 87
 work of Etienne deBore, 7
Sulla of Malta (Spanish St. Foin), 19
Sultania Rosea, seedless raisin, 113
Swedish clover, 51
Swingle, Walter T., 102, 104, 121

Tamarind, 92
 Queensland, 106
Tangerine, Mandarin orange, 106
Tariffs to protect crops, 106
Taylor, William A., 123
Tea, 81-85
 cultivation of, 44
 experimental, 82
 explorations in China, 46