CONTENTS Xi 



CHAPTER VII 



PAGES 



MATURITIES, YIELDS, AND MULTIPLICATION 124-132 



Maturity- Tables 124 



Time required for maturity of different garden crops, reckoned 

 from the sowing of the seeds, 124 Time required, from setting, 

 for fruit-plants to bear (for northern and central latitudes) 124 

 Average profitable longevity of fruit-plants under high culture, 

 125. 



Yield-Tables 125 



Average full yields per acre of various horticultural crops, 125 

 Yields of farm crops, 127. 



Propagation-Tables .130 



Tabular statement of the ways in which plants are propagated, 

 130 Particular methods by which various fruits are multiplied, 

 130 Stocks commonly used for various fruits, 131 How vege- 

 table crops are propagated, 131 How farm crops are propa- 

 gated, 132. 



CHAPTER VIII 



CROPS FOR SPECIAL FARM PRACTICES. HOME STORAGE AND KEEP- 

 ING OF CROPS 133-149 



Forage Crops . . . .' . 133 



Roughage, 133 Fodder, 133 Soiling, 133 Silage, 134. 

 Soiling Crops . . . . . . ' . . . . . 134 



Soiling crops adapted to northern New England, 135 Time of 

 planting and feeding soiling crops, 135 Soiling crops for Penn- 

 sylvania, 136 Crops for partial soiling .for Illinois during mid- 

 summer, 136 Succession of soiling crops for dairy cows for 

 Wisconsin, 136 Mississippi, 137 Kansas, 137 Dates for 

 planting and using soiling crops in western Oregon and western 

 Washington, 137 Dairyman's rotation in middle latitudes, 137. 



Cover-Crops 138 



Catch-Crops 139 



Nurse-Crops / . . . . . . 140 



Field Root-Crops 140 



Methods of Keeping and Storing Fruits and Vegetables . . . 141 

 Apples, 141 Cabbage, 142 Celery, 142 Crystallized or 

 glacS fruit, 143 Figs, 144 Gooseberries, 144 Grapes, 144 

 Onions, 146 Orange, 147 Pears, 147 Quince, 147 Roots, 

 147 Squash, 147 Sweet-potato, 148 Tomato, 149. 

 Cold Storage 149 



