Q

Quail, houses for keeping
  migrations of
Queen bees, recency of knowledge about
Quinces, storing
Quintilian, on Varro

R

Rabbits, warrens for
  breeding and feeding of
  derivation of Latin name for
Racking wine
Reate, asses from
Recipes
Rerum Rusticarum of Varro
  Virgil’s indebtedness to
Rest room for farm hands
Ridgeway, quoted
  on markings of horses
Ridging land, custom of
Rogers, Thorold, quoted
Roman fever
Rome, insecurity of life in ancient
Rosea, drainage of, by artificial canals
Rosean breed of horses
Rotten land, precautions regarding

S

Sacred pigs
Salad, olive
Salt, allowance of, for farm hands
Saltus, defined
Salutations, Greek, as used by Romans
Saserna, as a writer on agriculture
  quoted
  on number of farm hands necessary
  on securing allegiance of dogs
Sausages
Scab among sheep and cattle
Scratches in horses, remedy for
Scratching pen for hens
Scripulum, defined
Scrofa, Tremelius
  origin of name
Sea birds, manure of
Seasons, agricultural
Seed, selection of
Seed bed, preparing the
Sellar, cited
Seneca, on Virgil’s farming
Sestertius, value of the
Sheep, value of, for their manure
  buying of
  feeding, breeding, and care of
  shearing of
Sheep dogs
Shepherds, distinguished from farmers
  number and kind of, requisite
  purchase of slaves for
  life of
Sicilian honey
Silos
Size of farm
Slaves, selling of old and sick
  importance of food to contentment of
  selection of, for farm hands
  number of, for operating a farm
  buying, to act as shepherds
Snails, recipe for preparing cooked
  method of keeping in enclosures
  varieties of
  fattening of
Snakebite, remedy for
Soil, improvement of
  effect of character of, on agriculture
  different kinds of
  fining the
Solar measure of year
Solomon, quotation on ploughing from
Sour land, treatment of
Sowing, period for
Spring ploughing
Squabs
Stables for live stock
Steading, building a
  husbandry of the
  development of the industries of the
Stamen, etymology of
Stocking a farm
Storing crops
Strabo, inventor of aviaries
  cited
Straw, derivation of word
Swine, selecting, feeding, breeding, etc.

T

Tarquinii, ancient Etruscan city
Taylor, John, Arator by, quoted
Teals
Teeth, telling age of animals by the
Terra, different senses of word
Thales of Miletus
Thebes, derivation of name
Theophrastus, works by