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INDEX 



Lactometer test, 448. 



Lafean bill, 168. 



Lamb, grades of, 406. 



Lambert, on feathers and eggs, 375. 



Land-plaster, 28, 37; analysis, 59; 



weight, 533, 540. 

 Lanthanum, 24. 

 Lavender-bag, 552. 

 Lawes and Gilbert, quoted, 27. 

 Lawn, fertilizer for, 71 ; insects, 322 ; 



weeds in, 232. 

 Lead, 24 ; arsenate of, 291. 

 Leaf-curl, 275. 

 Leaf-prints, 549. 

 Lecanium corni, 329. 

 Legal weights of bushel, 533, 534, 540. 

 Leguminous cover-crops, 138. 

 Lehmann feeding standards, 413. 

 Lemon boxes, 164 ; insects, 323. 

 Length, measures of, 517, 520. 

 Lepidosaphes beckii, 323; ulmi, 308. 

 Leptinotarsa decemlineata, 329. 

 Lettuce, diseases, 273; fertilizer, 72; 



under glass, 190; insects, 322; for 



packages, 170, 171. 

 Leu, 523. 



Leucania unipuncta, 315. 

 Leuchars, on wind, 196. 

 Lewis, C. I., quoted, 166. 

 Liberia, money, 523. 

 Lice, on cattle, 438 ; powder, 436. 

 Lichen on trees, 233. 

 Light-horse, scoring, 393. 

 Light, reflection from glass, 198. 

 Ligyrus gibbosus, 312; rugiceps, 334. 

 Lily of the valley, 198. 

 Lily, under glass, 198. 

 Lima bean, diseases, 265. 

 Lime as fungicide, 256 ; classification 



of, 79; for the land, 77; weight 



per bushel, 78, 536. 

 Lime-sulfur dip, 434. 

 Lime-sulfur, formula, 256, 294. 

 Limnanthemum, 191. 

 Limnocharis, 191. 

 Lina scripta, 329. 

 Lindsey, on soiling, 135. 

 Line or linear measure, 517, 520, 528. 

 Linseed, weight, 536. 

 Lion, gestation, 342, 343. 

 Liquid manure, 83 ; for greenhouses, 



188. 



Liquid measure, 517. 



Lira, 522, 523. 



Lists for window-gardens, 189. 



Litharge in cement, 508. 



Lithium, 24. 



Litmus test, 77. 



Litter (manure), 84. 



Little-peach, 276. 



Liver of sulfur, 258. 



Live-stock, exhibiting, 383 ; judging, 



383, 386, 392 ; rules, 337. 

 Lixus concavus, 331. 

 Llama, milk of, 443. 

 Loess, 29. 

 Log measure, 212, 216, 218 ; rules, 214, 



217, 219, 220 ; scaling, 214. 

 London purple, 291. 

 Longevity of fruit plants, 125; of 



seeds, 102, 104. 



Loudon's rules for gardeners, 173. 

 Louse, hog, 441. 

 Luke, on weather, 11. 

 Lumber, defined, 202. 

 Lutecium, 24. 



Lyon and Fippin, quoted, 33, 36. 

 Lytta sp., 302. 



Macaroni wheat, 155. 



Maceration, skeletonizing plants, 549. 



Machine incubation, 370. 



Machinery, chapter on, 473. 



Macrodactylus subspinosus, 322. 



Macrosyphum pisi, 324. 



Magnesium, 24, 25. 



Mahernia, 189. 



Mairs, on soiling, 136. 



Maize, weight, 534, 536, 541. 



Malacosoma, sp., 309. 



Malaria, 249. 



Malt, weight, 536, 541. 



Manganese, 24. 



Mangels as field crop, 140 ; fertilizer 



for, 62. 

 Manure and house-flies, 249 ; chapter 



on, 81. 

 Mare, gestation, 342, 343; milk of, 



443, 444. 



Margaropus annulatus, 429. 

 Margolin, on forest yields, 205. 

 Mark, 522, 523. 



Market classes of live-stock, 404. 

 Marketing poultry, 374. 



