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INDEX 



Feeds, troughs for poultry, 291, 292 

 Feeds, analysis of, 308 



and feeding, chapter on, 305 



buying, 320 



change to tissue, 309 



digestibility table of, 360 



essentials in, 306 



fertility in, 360 



list of, 360 

 Feeding beef cattle, 315 



for winter eggs, 293 



of insects, 202 



plants, 81 



principles of, 315 



standards, 317, 361 



systems for poultry, 292, 293 



young animals, 317 

 Fermented milk, 331 

 Fertility in feeds, table of, 360 

 Fertilizer eqviivalents, 359 

 Fertilizer formulas, 357, 359 



in feeds, 320 

 Fertilizers, collection of, 84 



commercial, 81-85 



for pastures, 107 



for special crops, 357-359 



high grade, 83, 84 



low grade, 83, 84 



problems on, 85 



value of, 83 

 Flies carry disease, 211 



life of, 210, 211 



remedies for, 211, 212 

 Flight of insects, 202 

 Flint corn, 98, 99, 131 

 Floats, 82 

 Flowers, imperfect, 18 



of strawberry, 18 



parts of, 19 



perfect, 17 



pollination of, 18, 19 



purpose of, 17 

 Fiber crops, 95 

 Field records, 343 

 Fillers in orchards, 194 

 Film moisture in soils, 58, 59 

 Fine wooled sheep, 271, 274, 275 

 Food value of milk, 323 

 Forage crops, 95, 96 

 Forage crops for midsummer, 99 

 Forest care and management, 171 



influences, 161, 162 



planting, 160, 161, 163, 164 



trees, distances, 166, 168 

 mixed plantings, 167 

 nurseries, 165 

 propagation of, 164 

 shade, 165 

 Forestry, chapter on, 160 

 Formalin for grain, 232 



potatoes, 231 

 Fountains, drinking, 291, 293 

 Free water in soils, 58, 59, 61 

 French coach horses, 244, 245 



Merinos, 275 

 Frost and rainfall, 179 



vegetables injured by, 175 

 Fruit buds, 192, 194 



crop, care of, 200 



crops, 96 



fertilizer for, 359 



planting, distances for, 362 



Fruit production, chapter on, 188 



trees, raising of, 33 

 Fruits, small, 198 

 Full-blood, see pure-bred 

 Fungicides, 236, 350 



Gallon measure, 357 

 Galloway cattle, 259 

 Gang plow, 72 

 Garden crops, 95 



fertilizer for, 358 



planning, 173 



plants, setting, 175 

 Gardening, chapter on, 173 



landscape, 184 



ornamental, 184 



school, 180-184 



success in, 173 

 German coach horses, 245 



black bees, 300 

 General-purpose chickens, 284, 286 



horses, 241 

 Ginseng, shelter for, 165 

 Glaciers as soil formers, 47, 48 

 Gluten meal, 313 

 Gooseberries, 198, 199 

 Grades defined, 238 



high, 239 

 Grafting, cleft, 38, 39 



wax, making, 35 

 Grain, drill, 150 



heads of, 153 



moth, 212, 213 



remedy for, 213 



sanaples of, 153 



sifting and fanning, 22 



small, 148 



smut, 231, 232, 233 

 Grapes, 198, 199 

 Grass seed, good and poor, 26 

 Grasses for soiling, 97 

 Gravel, 57, 61 

 Green crops as manures, 73 



forage crops, 310 



manure, 53 



benefits of, 74 

 for potatoes, 155 

 planning for, 74 

 plowing under, 70 

 use of, 74 

 Grit boxes, 291 

 Ground beetle, 221 

 Grub of beetle, 206 

 Guard cells, 12 

 Guernseys, 264, 265 



Hackney horses, 245 

 Hampshire sheep, 272, 273 

 Hampshire swine, 280 

 Hardy vegetables, 175 

 Harrow, spike-toothed, 64 

 Harrowing, effect of, 62, 63 



pastures, 107 

 Harvesting corn, 142, 143, 144 



grain, 150, 151, 152 



potatoes, 156-159 



sweet potatoes, 159 

 Hay as feed, 310 



-caps for alfalfa, 112 



fertilizer for, 360 



in rotation,, 91 



measure of,* 356 



