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INDEX 



PAGE 

 Elevators: 



Attitude of railroads toward. 242 



Farmers' 242 



Floating 240 



Line 230 



Export trade 240 



Exports from surplus countries 366 



Extent of crop 335 



Feeding — Chapter XII 192-227 



Feeding: 



Importance of corn in 192 



To dairy cows 204 



To growing steers 205 



To hogs 209 



To horses 210 



To poultry 212 



Feeding the plant — Chapter VII 



96-114 

 Fertilizers: 



Barnyard manure S3 



Commercial 41 



Constituents 100 



Cottonseed meal for the south no 



Direct 99 



Essential constituents of.... 98 



For field corn 107 



For forage and silage corn., in 



For sweet corn 113 



Indirect 99 



Kainit 252 



Labor required in applying.. 310 



Manurial value of feedstuffs 362 



Moderate quantities sufficient 109 



Nitrate of soda 254 



Use of manure spreader 55 



Flint corn: 



Doolittle 28,34 



Rhode Island White Cap.... 35 



Varieties of 26 



Warren 28 



Flowers, development of 5 



Fodder: 



Best time to cut for 1 54 



Composition of maize as.... 360 



Cutting corn for 150 



Storing 156 



Value of 313 



Foods : 



Balanced and unbalanced... 205 



Chemical composition of.... 382 



Classification of 201 



Corn a carbonaceous 199 



Digestible elements in dry 



corn 35 1 



Efficiency of mixed 208 



Hints in selecting 203 



Rich in protein 200 



Gathering and cribbing, cost of 312 



Germination, conditions of.... 87 



("ilucose, production of.... 238, 318 

 Green crops, preserving without 



silo 142 



PAGS 



Harrowing, cost of 309 



Harvester, use of 184 



Harvester and shocker com- 

 bined 166 



Harvesting — Chapter X ....144-166 



Harvesting: 



Hints as to methods and time 185 



Old method 144 



Stage of development. .. 145, 150 



Top stalking 186 



Harvesting in the south: 



New method, by shredder.. 174 



Old method, by hand 172 



Hight, maximum 151 



Hilling or drilling 117 



History of corn plant — Chap- 

 ter I 1-4 



Horses, experiments in feeding 211 



Husking: 



Machine for 162 



Time required for 161 



Standing corn 158 



Imports into various countries. 359 



Inbreeding, effect of 68 



Insects: 



Army worm 264 



Black-headed maggot 254 



Black weevil 278 



Boll worm 269 



Bud worm 260 



Chinch bug 271 



Click beetle 251 



Corn root aphis 273 



Corn root louse 273 



Corn worm 269 



Cutworms 263 



Grain moth 276 



Grain weevils 277 



Grasshoppers 248 



(irass louse 275 



Hints in recognizing 245 



Indian meal moth 279 



Jumping jacks 251 



June beetle 258 



Larger cornstalk borer 266 



Meal snout moth 280 



Mediterranean flour moth... 281 



Northern corn root worm... 262 



Rice weevil 277 



Seed corn maggots 253 



Smaller cornstalk borer 268 



Southern corn root worm... 259 



Sugar-cane borer 266 



White grub 255 



Wireworms 249 



Irrigation: 



Amount of 191 



frequency of 19° 



Irrigation, methods of 188 



Preparation of land 187 



Time of 187, 190 



