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INDEX 



Common barley, varieties and 



grouping, 130. 

 Common or spreading oats, 95. 



varieties and grouping, 97. 

 Common wheat, 37. 



varieties and grouping in North 



America, 38. 

 varieties and grouping in other 



countries, 39. 

 Contour farming, 305. 

 Control of indoor insects, 499. 

 Crown, 16. 

 Culm, 4. 



Deficient barley, 137. 

 Diseases, 505. 



blade blight of oats, 536. 



cereal anthracnose, 533. 



ergot, 535. 



foot disease, 536. 



rice diseases, 620. 



blast, 620, 635. 



rotten neck, 635. 



straight head, 620, 634. 

 rusts, 505. 



barberry, 507. 



black stem-rust, 507. 



buckthorn, 508. 



control of, 510. 



crown-rust, 508. 



dwarf rust, 507. 



orange leaf -rust, 505. 



perpetuation of, without aecid- 

 num, 511. 



prevention of, 510. 



resistance, 511. 



stripe-rust, 509. 



yellow rust, 509. 

 smuts, 513. 



bunt, 513. 



control of, 527. 



covered smut of barley, 519. 



covered smut of oats, 536. 



fungicides, 521. 



hot water treatment, 523. 



loose smut of oats, 515. 



loose smut of wheat, 525. 



naked smut of barley, 52-7. 



prevention of, 519. 



resistance to, 530. 



Diseases (Continued). 

 smut in soil, 525. 

 stinking smut, 513. 

 time of seeding, effect of on 



smut, 530. 



stripe disease of barley, 532. 

 take-all, 536. 

 wheat scab, 530. 

 "white heads," 537. 

 Durum wheat, 47. 

 adaptation, 53. 

 varieties and grouping, 53. 



Eastern area, description of, 303. 

 Einkorn, 65. 



origin, 33. 



resistance to rust, 67. 



use of, in breeding, 66. 



varieties and grouping, 67. 



wild, 34. 

 Elimeae, 115. 

 Embryo, 9. 

 Emmer, 62. 



origin, 33. 



varieties and grouping, 64. 



wild, 33. 



Endosperm, 11, 12. 

 Environment, 291. 



effects of, 293, 294, 295. 



experiments, 293. 

 Epiblast, 11. 

 Epicotyl, 9, 15. 

 Erect six-row barley, 125. 



characteristics, 127. 



distribution, 128. 



varieties and grouping, 128. 



Fertilization, 8. 

 Fertilizers, 310. 



application of, 312. 



commercial, 377. 



for buckwheat, 592. 



for rice, 619. 



manures as, 313, 341, 381. 



quantities required, 311. 

 Fibro-vascular bundles, 6, 23. 

 Flowers, 7. 

 Fungi, 505. 

 Fungicides, 521. 



