370 



INDEX 



Manure, value of, 76, 77 

 Mapping the farm, 340 



school grounds, 341 

 Market, fruit ready for, 200 



-garden crops, 95 



milk, form of, 329, 330 

 Marl, 50 



Masses of trees and shrubs, 185, 186, 187 

 Matted row system, 196, 197 

 Measure, cubic, and land, 356 



of a pound of feed, 360 

 Meat breeds of chickens, 284, 286 

 Medium wooled sheep, 371, 372 

 Men needed in farming, 339 

 Merino sheep, 274, 275 

 Metamorphosis, see Changes 

 Middlings of wheat, 313 

 Milk as food, 322 



bacteria in, 325 



bad flavor in, 325 



composition of, 323 



fats in, 323 



minerals in, 324 



pails, 327, 328 



pure, 326 



showing difference in, 324 



sugar in, 324 



varies naturally, 324 *• 



Mill feeds, 313 

 Millets for soiling, 97 

 Mineral matter, 308 

 in milk, 324 

 plants, 16 

 Mixed planting, reasons for, 167 

 Modified milk, 331 

 Moisture increasing in soil, 62 



saving in soil, 62, 63 



used by plants, 60 

 Morgan horse, 248 

 Mosquitoes, 206, 207 



malaria, 208, 209 



yellow fever, 209, 210 

 Moth, clothes, 212 



grain, 212, 213 

 Mouldboards, forms of, 72 

 Moulting of insects, 204 

 Mouth parts of insects, 202 

 Movement of moisture, 60 

 Mowing pastures, 107, 108 

 Muck, 53 

 Mulch, effect of, 63 



dust, 63 

 Mules, classes of, 246 

 Mutations defined, 238 



Native stock, 239 



Nitrate of soda, 82, 84, 357, 359 



Nitrogen, 357, 359 



in feeds, 360 



fertilizers, 81 



manures, 346 



Nodules on legumes, 101, 102 



studying, 111 

 Nozzles for spraying, 235 

 Nutrients, 310, 

 Nutritive ratios, 318 

 Nymph stage of insects, 207 



Oat smut, treatment, 232, 233 

 Oats, 150, 151, 152 



and grain for soiling, 99 

 hay, 98 



Oats and grain for peas, 97, 98 

 in rotation, 93 



as feed, 313 



fertilizers for, 357 



in rotation, 90, 91 



sprouted for poultry, 395 

 Oil meal, 314 



presence of, 308 

 Olericulture defined, 173 

 Ornamental chickens, 284, 287 



gardening, 184, 185 . 



planting, 170 ^ 



Orchard cover crops, 90, 193 



culture, 193, 195 



site and soils, 188, 189 



trees, pruning, 189, 190 

 setting, 189 

 when to plant, 189 

 Osmosis (defined, 14 



use of, 14 



with egg, 15 



with potato, 15 

 Oxford sheep, 272, 273 

 Oxygen in plants, 13, 14 



and air, 16, 17 



Pageants, 7 



Palatability of feed, 319, 320 

 Parasites of insects, 222, 223 

 Paris green, 236, 350 

 Pasture, in rotation, 91 



plants, 106 



system, 99 

 Pastures, bad conditions in, 107 



how to keep, 107, 108 



rrmanent, 106 

 culture, 193 

 leaf curl, 226, 228 

 scab, 225 

 tree borer, 217 

 varieties, 194, 195 

 yellows, 225, 226, 229 

 Peaches injured by curculio, 217 

 Pea root nodules, 102 

 Peaty soil, 50, 53, 57, 61 

 Pedigree, sample, 355 

 Pedigrees, 239 

 Percherons, 242 

 Perennial weeds, 30 

 Perennials defined, 20 



place for, in garden, 174 

 Perfect strawberries, 198 

 Permanent pastures, 106 

 Phosphate rock, 82 

 Phosphoric acid, 357, 359 

 in feeds, 360 



fertilizers, 82, 83 

 manures, 362 

 Phosphorus, study of, 83 

 Picking and packing fruit, 200 

 Pig management, 280, 281 

 Pistillate strawberries, 198 

 Plan for farm school, 176 



school grounds, 180 

 Planning crops, 340 

 Plans for planting shrubs, 186, 187 

 Plant diseases, 224, 225 



prevention of, 225 

 studjdng, 225 

 -food in soils, 15, 56, 57 

 improvement, chapter on, 22 

 Planting corn, 141" 



