CONTENTS 



PAGES 



The Farmer's Reading Course 241 



Stinking Smut of Wheat and its Prevention 242 



The Use of Chemical Preservatives in Milk 245 



The Open Range and the Irrigation Farmer 249 



The Value of a Dairy Herd Record 256 



The Use of the Babcock Test 259 



Plant- Lice 262 



Suggestions Concerning Date Culture 267 



The Spring Vegetable Garden 271 



Some Trees and Plants for Barren Places 274 



The Use of Hand Separators on the Farm 277 



Well Waters for Irrigation 280 



Home-Made Fertilizers 284 



Wild Barley 287 



The Australian Saltbush in Arizona 291 



Millets 293 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Amhat Palm with 300 pounds of fruit Frontispiece 



Fig. 1. Swale, showing a heavy growth of galleta grass 250 



Fig. 2. The Ruin of a Valley 252 



Fig. 3. The Ruin of an Industry 253 



Fig. 4. Woolly Louse of the Apple, etc 264 



Fig. 5. Woolly Louse of the Apple, etc 265 



Fig. 6. Typical Artesian Well, 6 miles Southwest of Pima 282 



Fig. 7. Wild Barley, Hordeum rmirinum, % size 289 



Fie. 8. Australian Saltbush 292 



