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INDEX 



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Grain, maize, shape at maturity 152 



pop maize, size 166 



sorghum 384 



wheat 33 



Gramineae 26 



Grasses, area and production.. 6 



for various purposes 6 



number of species 6 



Grasshoppers _ 307, 349 



Green manuring, buckwheat... 405 



Guiana corn 382 



Habitat, original, wheat 130 



Harvester and thresher com- 

 bined, wheat 108 



wheat, self-binding 106 



Harvesting barley 334 



broom corn, method 393 



buckwheat 407 



oats, time and method... 308 



rye 350 



sorghum, method 392 



sorghum, time 392 



wheat 102 



wheat, methods 105 



Header, wheat 107 



Heliothis armiger 247 



Helminthosporium graminum . . 244 

 Hemp, place among fiber plants 9 



Hessian fly 336 



fly, wheat 98, 100 



History, maize 274 



oats 313 



wheat 130 



Holcus lanatus 280 



Hordeae 26, 138 



Hordeum nudum 325 



sativum 318 



sativum distichon 324 



sativum hexastichon 323 



sativum vulgare 324 



spontaneum 325 



Horticulture, definition i 



Hull-less barley 325 



Hull, barley 320 



maize 156 



oats 282 



Hybrids, artificial wheat 66 



Importance of field crops, rela- 

 tive, practicum 12 



of large numbers 23 



Imports, wheat 128 



Improvement, examples 18 



in plants 17 



in seed 14 



methods 19 



wheat, by selection 63 



wheat, crossing a method. 65 

 wheat, _ new strains or 

 varieties, method of find- 

 ing and testing 66 



wheat varieties 63 



Indian millet 382 



Inducing variation 19 



variation, methods of 19 



Inflorescence, barley 318 



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Inflorescence, maize 144 



oats 28 1 



sorghum 383 



Insect enemies, barley 336 



enemies, oats 306 



enemies, wheat 93, 98 



Ipomoea tamnifolia 369 



Isosoina hordei 336 



Jerusalem corn 382 



Joanette oats 290 



Jute 9 



Kafir corn 382 



Kherson oats 291 



Lachnosterna 247 



Laphygma _ frugiperda 371 



Large indigo 369 



numbers, importance of . . . 23 

 Law, variation from type, to 



demonstrate practicum.. 24 



Leaf blight fungus 244,246 



Leaves, maize 142 



wheat 29 



Legumes, for hay and pasture 7 



for seeds 7 



Lime, maize 215 



wheat 76 



Linca granella 102 



Lissorhoptrus simplex 370 



Listing maize 224 



Lithospermum arvense 93 



Lolium italicum 26 



peretine 26 



remotum 26 



temiilentnm 26, 93 



Long podded sesban 369 



Loose smut 96 



Maize, aleurone layer 155 



application of lime 216 



application of stable manure 212 



ash 161 



average yield per acre of 

 seed from different parts 



of ear 200 



breeding farm 15 



breeding for composition.. 192 

 breeding for composition, 



advantage of •.-.••• ^9^ 



breeding for composition, 



disadvantage of 192 



breeding for fat 191 



breeding for protein 192 



breeding for starch 192 



breeding methods 194 



breeding plat 194 



by-products 26.!^ 



carbohydrates 162 



causes limiting distribution 202 

 character of ear, practicum 277 

 character of grain, prac- 

 ticum 276 



climate 202 



close breeding 187 



close breeding, degree.... 187 



collateral reading 279 



color 156 



