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INDEX 



Root crops, 95, 311 



for dairy cows, 98 



grafting, 34, 35 



hairs, 8, 9 



system of corn, 143 

 Roots, effects of drainage on, 66 



for chickens, 291 



of plants, 8 

 Roughage, 310 

 Rows of kernels on corn, 137 

 Rules for alfalfa growing, 129, 130 

 corn judging, 132, 137 

 farmers, 356 

 Rust of apple, 228, 229 

 Rye, 152, 153 



Saddle horse, 246, 248 

 Salesman, the farmer a, 343 

 Sampling milk to test, 335 

 Sandy soil, 50, 52, 56, 57, 61 

 San Jose scale, 219, 220 

 Scab of apples, 227, 228 

 Scab, potato, 230, 231 

 Scale, San Jose, 219, 220 

 Schedule for placing agriculture, 4 

 School gardening, 180, 184 

 equipment, 181 

 experiments, 182, 183 

 in California, 174 

 place for, 181 

 . plots, 180, 184 

 products of, 184 

 suggestions for, 181, 182 

 grounds described, 186 

 mapping of, 341 

 needs of, 186 

 plans for, 180 

 Scions for apples, 33, 35 



peaches, and plums, 37 

 Score card for cattle, 269, 270 

 corn, 138 

 horses, 253, 255 

 Scrub, see Native Stock 

 Seed analysis, 26 

 cheap, 28 

 collection, 28 

 corn, harvesting, 142 

 storing, 142, 144 

 depth of planting, 175 

 for crops, quantity, 345 

 good, chapter on, 22 

 immature, 28 

 impurities in, 24, 25 

 potatoes, cutting, 155 

 treating, 155, 231 

 samples of, 30 

 selection, 22, 23 

 storage, 29 

 testing, 26, 27, 28 

 what to buy, 28 

 wheat, 150 

 Seeding alfalfa, 110, 114 

 oats, 151 

 pastures, 107 

 Seeds, forest tree, 164, "165, 166 

 mounted, 31 

 purpose of, 20 

 structure of, 20 

 study of, 20 

 Selecting corn, rules for, 132, 137 

 Separators, hand, 332 

 Shallow tillage, 73 



Sheep, care of, 276 



chapter on, 271 



feed for, 362 



judging, 277 



to kill weeds, 108 



types of, 271 

 Shelter belts, 162, 163, 164, 167 

 Shire, English, 243 

 Shorthorns, 257, 258 

 Shorts, 313 

 Shropshire, 272, 273 

 Shrubs, masses of, 185 

 Sifting, grain, 22 

 Silage, see Ensilage 

 Silk worm, 221 

 Silo filling, 145, 312 

 Silt, 50 



Site for orchards, 188 

 Skim milk, 334, 337 

 Slips, see Cuttings 

 Small fruits, to grow, 189 



grains, chapter of, 148 

 Soil, agencies in forming, 43 



builders, 43 



clayey, 50, 51, 52, 57, 61 



defined, 42 



farm, 56 



for barley, 152 

 oats, 151 

 potatoes, 155, 157 



improvement, chapter on, 69 



kinds of, chapter on, 50 



loamy, see Loam 



moisture, chapter on, 58 



names of, 57 



packing of, 60 



perfect, 56 



plant-food from, 15 



preparation for corn, 140 



rocky, 51 



sampling, 57, 58 



sandy, 50, 52, 57, 61 



texture of, 55 



transported, 48, 49 



warmed by drainage, 67 



wind-blown, 43, 49 

 Soils, characteristics, chapter on, 50 



how formed, chapter on, 42 



inoculation of, 110 



water holding power, 60, 61 

 in, 58, 61 

 Soiling crops, 96, 97, 311 



entire, 96 



for the dairv, 96 



partial, 96, 99 



system, 96 

 Soluble oil, 220 



Sorting and grading fruit, 200, 201 

 Souring of milk, 329, 331 

 Southdown sheep, 272, 273 

 Soy beans, 90, 97, 102 

 Specimens, preserving, 220, 221 

 Sphinx caterpillar, 223 

 Sports defined, 238 

 Spray mixtures, 351 



time to, 227, 233, 234, 235 

 Spraying, 224, 228, 233, 236 



orchards, 233, 235 



principles of, 235 

 Standardized milk, 330 

 Standards of feeding, 317, 362 

 Starch, 307 



