INDEX 



371 



Planting corn, experiment, 141 



distances for fruits, 363 

 vegetables, 363 



mixed, for trees, 167 



ornamentals, directions for, 187 



potatoes, 155, 156, 157, 158 



principles of, 185 



time of, 174 



trees, 160, 161, 170, 171 

 methods of, 163, 170 

 need of, 161, 163 

 on the farm, 163 



vegetables, 175 

 Plants and moisture, 10, 11 



as soil formers, 43, 46 



breathing of, 12 



division of, 40 



feeding of, 81 



flowers of, 8, 17 



get food from air, 12 



for pasture, 106 

 Plants, leaves of, 8, 10 



mineral matter in, 10, 11, 14 



needs of, 16 



parts of, 8 



per acre for vegetables, 364 



roots of, 8 



stems of, 8, 9 



water used by, 60 

 Plowing, depth of, 62, 73 



fall, 72 



for potatoes, 155 



objects of, 70, 71 

 Plows, form of, 71, 72 



gang, 72 

 Plum curculio, 215, 216 

 Plymouth Rock hen, 286, 287, 

 .Poisons for insects, 350 

 Poland China swine, 279, 280 

 Polled Angus, 259 



cattle, origin of, 238 



Durhams, 258 

 Pollen, how carried, 18 

 Pollination, cross, 19 



of corn, 19 



self, 19 

 Pony breeds, 241 

 Pore spaces in soil, 60 

 Potash, 357, 359 



in feeds, 360 



fertilizers, 83 

 manures, 362 



muriate of, 83 



sulfate of, 83 

 Potato beetle, 213, 214 



diggers, 156, 157 



harvesting, 156, 157, 158, 159 



scab, 230, 231 

 Potatoes, chapter on, 154 



cultivation of, 156, 159 



fertilizer for, 359 



Irish, 154 



origin and types, 154 



planting, 155, 156 



treatment for scab, 233 



weights and yields, 157 

 Poultry, care of, 294 



chapter on, 283 



kinds of, 283 



rations, 293 

 Powdered milk, 330 

 Principles of planting, 185 



Principles of spraying, 235, 236 

 Problems, 16 



arithmetical, 4 



on eggs, 298 

 feeds, 320 

 fertilizers, 85 

 Products of cattle, hsted, 322 

 school gardens, 184 

 the dairy, 322 

 Propagation of forest trees, 164, 165 



plants, 33 

 Property, value of, 344 

 Protein, 306 



in feeds, 361 

 Pruning a budded tree, 36 



annual, 190 



care in, 192 



choice in, 191 



currants and gooseberries, 199 



grapes, 199 



high and low, 190 



illustrated, 190, 191, 192, 193 



instruments, 192, 194 



methods of, 191, 192 



practice in, 192 



principles of, 189 



raspberries and blackberries, 199 



small fruits, 198 



time for, 192 



young trees, 190 

 Pupa stage, 205 

 Pure-bred animals, 238 



milk, difficulty in obtaining, 325 

 how to get, 326 

 Purity of corn, 133, 134 



Quantity of seeds for crops, 354 

 Questions, review, see end of each 

 chapter 



I Rainfall, absorbing, 61 

 and frost, 179 

 Rambouillet sheep, 275 

 Raspberries, 198, 199 

 Rations, balanced, 318 

 Records for dairy cows, 333, 334 



of fields, 343 

 Red polled cattle, 261, 262 

 Reference books, 346 



tables, appendix, 346 

 to books, 58 

 References to bulletins, see Bulletins 

 Remedies for codling-moth, 215 

 curculio, 216 

 flies, 211 

 grain moth, 213 

 mosquitoes, 209 

 potato scab, 230, 231 

 scale, 220 

 Reversion defined, 238 

 Review questions, see end of each 



chapter 

 Rings of wood, 169 

 Ripened milk and cream. 331 

 Roof garden, 183 

 Rotation courses, 92 



of crops, benefit of, 88 

 need of, 88 

 reasons for, 86 

 for dairy farms, 90 

 Rotations, a few, 90 

 quick, 91 



