INDEX 



Hay-stacking machine, 113 

 Heading, see Pruning 

 Hedge-row system, 196, 197 

 Henry, W. A., credit given, 361 

 Heredity, law of, 237 

 Herefords, 258, 259, 267 

 Hill-row method, 196, 197 

 Hives, 301, 303 

 Hog cholera, 282 

 Holstein-Friesians, 264, 266 

 Holstein, pedigree of, 355 

 Home plot for school garden, 184 

 Honey-bees, 221 



poisoning, 234 



-making, 301 

 Hoppers for chickens, 291, 292 

 Horses, age of, 251 



care of, 249 



chapter on, 240 



examining in barn, 249, 250 

 Horses, feed for, 361 



inspecting, 249, 250 



judging, 252 



measurements of, 251 



origin of in America, 240 



points of, shown, 252 



pure breeds of, 241 



types of, 241 



unsoundness of, 251 

 Horticultural crops, 95 

 Horticulture defined, 173 

 Hot-bed, 176, 177, 178, 181 



for sweet potatoes, 158 



plants from, 159 

 Houdon chicks, 288 

 House fly, 310, 311 



for chickens, 288 

 pigs, 282 

 Humus, 53, 56, 57, 61 

 Husking and shredding machines, 144 

 Hygroscopic moisture, 58, 59 



Improvement, kinds of, 70 



of animals, chapter on, 237 

 soils, 69 

 Impurities of seeds, 24 

 Incubator, running an, 295, 296 

 Inoculation of soils, 110 

 Insecticides, 202, 203, 236, 350 

 Insects, beneficial, 221 



breathing of, 204 



cages for, 207, 208 



changes of, 205 



chapter on, 202 



enemies, 207 



feeding of, 202 



growth of, 204, 205 



moulting of, 204 



mounting of, 208 



skeleton of, 205 



specimens of, 220 



structure of, 202 

 Inventory, an, 344, 345 

 Iodine test for starch, 13 

 Irrigation of the garden, 174 

 Italian bees, 300 



Jersey cattle, 263, 265 

 Journal ruling for records, 343 

 Judging corn, rules for, 132, 137 



cattle, 269, 270 



horses, 253, 255 



Judging sheep, 277 

 swine, 283 



KaflSr for soiling, 98, 100 

 Keeping farm accounts, 342, 343 

 Kernels of corn, 132, 135 

 Kerosene emulsion, 204, 350, 351 

 Kinds of forest trees, 164, 165, 171, 172 

 King system of ventilation, 327, 328 



Ladders used in picking fruit, 200 

 Lady-beetle, 221, 222 

 Lambs, winter or hot-house, 174 

 Land drainage, chapter on, 65 



measuring, 356 

 Landscape gardening, 184 

 Lard type of swine, 279 

 Larva of insects, 203, 205, 206 

 Lattice shade for nurseries, 165 

 Laws of breeding, 237 

 Layering, tip, mound, vine, 39 

 Leaf curl of peach, 226. 228 



skin of, 11 



structure, 10 

 Lean type of swine, 279, 280 

 Leaves, chlorophyl in, 11 



moisture from, 10, 11 



of plants, 10 



openings in, 11 



stomates in, 11, 12 

 Legal milk, 330 



weights of grain, 355 

 Leghorn hen, 284 

 Legumes defined, 100, 101 



gather nitrogen, 101 



learning, 101 

 Leicester sheep, 271 



Lens, use of, in examining seeds, 25, 26 

 Life, duration of, 20 



of insects, 205 

 Light horses, 241, 245, 246 



see Sunlight 

 Lime and sour soil, 76 



and scab, 230 



benefits of, 75 



for pastures, 107 



in soil, 53, 56, 57 



slacking, 75 



-sulfur, 215, 220, 225, 228, 234, 236 

 forms of, 352, 353 



water, 75 

 Liming for alfalfa, 110, 114 

 Lincoln sheep, 272 

 Linseed meal, 314 

 Little-peach diseases, 227, 230 

 Loam, 50, 52, 54, 56, 57, 61 

 Loose smut of oats, 232 

 Loss from feeds, 309 



Maggot of fly, 216 



Malaria mosquitoes, 208, 209 



Manure and scab, 220 



care of, 78 



composition of, 363 



composts, 80 



for pastures, 107 



green, 53, 70, 73, 74 



heating of, 77 



leaching of, 77 



loss in, 77 



spreading, 78, 79, 80 



using, 79 



