INDEX TO ABSTRACT, 



Apples, profits of growing, as a farm-crop, 19, 21. 



varieties of, 20-22. 

 Beans, varieties of, to raise, 65, C6. 

 Bearing year of apples, how to change the, 24, 26. 

 Beets, sowing of, for feeding cattle, 45, 57. 

 Budding of fruit-trees, process of, 9, 10. 

 Butter-making, and profits of, 68, 72, 74, 77. 

 Corn, economy of topping, 36, 37. 

 Cows, standard of yield for, 67. 

 Cranberry, cultivation of the, 30, 32. 

 Fruit-trees, objects and methods of pruning, 11, 23. 



protection of, from insects, 27. 

 Grafting of fruit-trees, methods of, 12, 14, 25. 



composition used for, 13, 25. 

 Improvement of old grasslands, 46. 

 Indian corn, experiments with, 34, 37, 39, 42. 



modes of harvesting, 36, 37. 



stover, value of, per acre, 35, 40, 44. 

 Insects that attack fruit-trees, 27, 29. 

 Manure in the land after cropping, 38, 41. 

 Milk, butter, and cheese products, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78. 



setting of, for cream, 74, 76. 

 Nutritive value of various roots, 60, 62. 

 Odd-year-bearing apple-trees, 23, 24, 26. 

 Pear-blight, causes of, 17, 18. 

 Pears, raising of, from seed, 7, 8. 

 soils best suited to, 8, 15. 

 Potatoes, comparative nutritive value of, 60, 62. 



varieties and culture of, 58, 64. 

 Poultry, breeds of, desirable to keep, 80, 82. 

 Root-crops, cultivation of, 45, 49, 53, 56, 59, 62. 

 Soils, treatment of, in fruit-growing, 15, 21, 22, 30, 32. 

 Sugar-beet, raising of the, for stock, 45, 47, 49, 52, 57, 62. 

 Swamp-lands, success in draining, 45, 46, 

 Trees, transplanting of, 9, 16. 

 Vegetables, culture of garden, 63. 



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