INDEX 



979 



Pruning Continued : 



cutting back or dehorning, 837. 



dangers <>i' too >evere, 831. 



dwarf trees, 878. 



in old orchard, 827, 828. 



low-headed trees, 832. 



proper time for, 838, 839. 



reasons for, 830, 831. 



root, 840, 841. 



thinning, 834-837. 



tools, 841. 



tree surgery, 839, 840. 



young trees, 819, 831, 832. 

 Public sales of fruit, 915-926. 



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Rabbits, injuries to trees by, 963, 964. 

 Rape as cover crop in orchard, 778, 



791. 



Reading Terminal Market, refrigera- 

 tion at, 666, 667. 



Receipts and Prices of Apples in 

 New York City, H. B. Knapp, 

 927-936. 



monthly prices of, Baldwin, 929. 

 Ben Davis, 931-933. 

 Northern Spy, 931. 

 Rhode Island Greening, 931. 

 Red bugs, 850, 851. 

 Refrigeration, Various Methods of, 

 and Advantage to Public, G. H. 

 McKay, 662-668. 

 growth of practice, 665. 

 methods of, 662, 664. 

 n<>ed of additional plants, 667. 

 organization, value of, 668. 

 result of, at Reading Terminal 



Market, 665, 667. 

 small plants for farmers, 664, 



665. 

 Rhode Island Greening, history of, 



758, 759. 



monthly prices for, 931. 

 soil types for, 771-773. 

 Ring budding, 963. 

 Root, grafting, 959. 



pruning, 840, 841. 

 Rosy apple aphis, 846. 

 Rye as cover crop in orchard, 791. 



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Saddle grafting, 963. 

 St. Lawrence Valley, fruit growing 



in, 640, 642. 



Scale insects, 829, 843-845. 

 oyster-shell, 844, 845. 

 San Jose, 829, 843, 844. 

 scurvy, 845. 



San Jos4 scale, 829, 843, 844. 

 control methods, 829, 844. 

 Scab disease, apple, 855-861. 

 Schoharie Valley, fruit growing in, 



642. 

 Scion, for grafting, care of in winter, 



957. 



roots in dwarf apple experi- 

 ment, 876, 878. 

 union of stocks and, 878, 880. 

 Scurvy scale, 845. 

 Seedlings in nursery growing, 654, 



655, 656. 



Selling on Commission and Buying 

 Direct from Producers, J. II. 

 Killough, 906-910. 

 buying from orchard, 909, 910. 

 direct sales to consumer im- 

 practical, 906-908. 

 true function of commission mer- 

 chant, 90'8, 909. 



Setting trees, systems of, 818, 819. 

 Shot-hole, fungus on cherry, 660. 



made by borers, 854. 

 Side worm injury, 848, 850. 

 Sod mulch, system in orchard, 804. 

 vs. Tillage for Apple Orchards, 

 W. D. Auchter, 803-810. 

 costs and returns, 809. 

 cultural experiments, 

 805-808. 



results obtained, 807. 

 effects of two methods, 



805, 808, 809. 



Some of Our Most Common Apple 

 Diseases, H. H. Whetzel and L. R. 

 Hesler, 855-870. 

 Sooty blotch disease of apple, 869, 



870. 



Soil, general requirements as to, 769- 

 771. 



