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INDEX 



Breeds of horses, 241 



sheep, 271, 272, 274 



swine, 279, 280, 282 

 Brewers' grains, 314 

 Brooder houses, 298 

 Brown rot of peach, 225, 226 

 Brown Swiss cattle, 262, 267 

 Bud selection, 23 

 Budding apple trees, 35 



peaches and plums, 36, 37, 38 

 sticks, 35, 37 

 Buds, fruit, 192, 194 

 Bulletins, Farmers', how to secure, 3, 346 



how to use, 3 



referred to, see end of each 

 chapter 

 Bushel measure, 356 

 Business of farming, 338 



success, elements of, 341 

 Buttermilk, 331, 332. 334, 337 

 Butts of corn, 134 

 Buying feeds, 320 

 By-products and mill feeds, 313, 315 



Cab horses, 244 



Calf feeding, 315 



California, school gardening in, 174 



Calves, dairy, 263 



feed for, 361 

 Cambium layer of wood, 34 

 Capillary moisture, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 



experiment, 62 

 Carbohydrates, 307 



and fat in feeds, 360 

 Carbon bi-sulfide, 213, 351 



dioxide, 13, 14 



in plants, 13, 14 

 Carniolan bees, 300 

 Casein of milk, 323 

 Catalo hybrid cattle, 260 

 Catch crops, 88, 89 

 Caterpillar-hunting beetle, 221 

 Caterpillars, 206, 207 

 Cattle, chapter on, 257 



feed for, 361 



judging, 267, 268 



points of, shown, 267 



products, chapter on, 322 



types of, 257 

 Caucasian bees, 300 

 Cedar apple, 229, 230 

 Cellulose, 307 

 Cereal crops, 95 

 Certified milk, 330 

 Changes in insects, 205 

 Cheese-making, 333 

 Chester white swine, 279, 280 

 Cheviot sheep, 272, 273, 274 

 Chicken houses, 288, 290 

 location of, 289 

 inside of, 289 

 plan for, 290 



varieties, study of, 287 

 to keep, 287 

 Chickens, varieties of, 284-287 

 Chinch bug, 213 

 Chlorophyl, 11, 12 

 Cholera, hog, 282 

 Churning, steps in, 332 

 Cicada captured, 223 

 Clayey soil, 50, 51, 52, 56, 57 61 

 Cleaning seed, 22 



Cleveland Bay horses, 244 

 Clothes moth, 212 

 Clover, alsike, 104 



compared with standard, 318, 319 

 crimson, 89, 104 

 for soiling, 97 

 in rotation, 90, 91 

 methods of starting, 105 

 nodules, 101, 102 

 red, 104 



when to cut, 105 

 white, 104 

 Clydesdales, 243 

 Coach horses described, 244 

 Coarse wooled sheep, 271 

 Cob of corn, 137 

 Cocoon, 205, 207 

 Codling-moth, 214, 215 



spraying for, 234, 235, 236 

 Cold frame, 176, 177, 178 

 Colluvial soil, 49 

 Colony of bees, 301 

 Column system of accounts, 342, 343 

 Commercial fertilizers, 81 

 Community centre, 6 

 Composition of animals, 305 

 corn, 309 

 feeds, 361 

 fertilizers, 357, 359 

 manures, 362 

 milk, 323, 324, 325 

 Composts of manure, 80, 81 

 Concentrated feeds, 310, 312, 313, 314 

 Condensed milk, 330 

 Contrasts in farming, 339 

 Cooling milk, 328 

 Copper sulfate, 351 

 Coppice growth of trees, 171 

 Corn after oats and peas, 94 

 as feed, 312 

 butts, 134 

 chapter on, 131 

 cob, 133 



composition of, 309 

 crop, 131 

 culture, 140 

 -drying rack, 144 

 fertilizer for, 357 

 finest in the world, 137 

 for forage, 94 

 for soiling, 98, 99 

 germs, weak and healthy, 140 

 grain, 133 



harvesting, 142, 143, 144 

 in rotation, 90, 91 

 kernels, 132, 135 

 planting, 141 

 pollination of, 19 

 preparation of soil for, 140 

 proportion of, to cob, 137 

 root system, 143 

 score card, 138 

 silks, 19 



size of ears, 135, 136 

 stalks as feed, 310 

 storing, 142, 144, 146, 147 

 testing, 138, 139 

 tillage, 142 

 tips, 134 



types of, 131, 132, 133 

 vitality of, 134 

 Correlation of subjects, 4 



