INDEX 



373 



Starch in plants, 13 



State experiment stations, 349 



Stems of plants, 9 



relation of light, 10 

 sap in, 10 

 Steps in churning, 332 



cheese making, 333 

 Stock feeding, 315 

 Stocks for apples, 33 



peaches, 36, 37 

 Stomates, 11, 12 

 Storage of seeds, 29 



sweet potatoes, 159 

 Stored grain, treatment of, 213 

 Storing corn, 142, 144, 146, 147 



vegetables, 178 

 Stover, corn, 144, 147 

 Stratifying peach seeds, 37 

 Straw as feed, 310 

 Strawberries, 196, 197, 198 

 flowers of, 198 

 methods of planting, 196 

 varieties of, 198 

 Structure and physiology of plants, 



chapter on, 8 

 Subjects in school, 4, 5 

 Subsoil and plow, 56 

 Success, elements of, 341 



in gardening, 173 

 Succulent feed, 294 , 



Sucking insects, 202, 203 



sprays for, 351 

 Suffolk Punch, 244 

 Sugar in milk, 324 

 plants, 13 

 Sugars, 307, 308 

 Suggestions to teachers, 2 

 Sunlight aids plants, 12 



need of, 12, 13 

 Super for hives, 303 

 Superphosphate, 83, 85 

 Swarming of bees, 303 

 Sweet corn, 98, 99, 100 



potatoes, 157, 158, 159 

 culture of, 158, 159 

 fertilizer for, 358 

 harvesting, 159 

 hot-bed, 158, 159 

 plants, 157 

 soil for, 157 

 storage, 159 

 Swine, chapter on, 278 

 feed for, 361 



four stages in life of, 281 

 mineral for, 282 

 types of, 278 

 Syrian bees, 300 

 System in farming, 340 

 ^stems of cropping, chapter on, 86 



Tables, consult Appendix, 346 



Tachinid fly, 211 



Tamworth swine, 280 



Tankage, 82 



Teachers, suggestions to, 2 



Temperature and souring. 328, 329 



in soil forming, 43, 44 

 Temperatures, 16 

 Tender vegetables, 175 

 Tester for ear method, 139 

 Testing milk and cream, 333, 337 



results, 140 



Testing seed corn, 138 

 Thinning plants, lessons in, 183 

 Thorax of insects, 202 

 Thoroughbred, 238, 245, 247 

 Tillage, 70, 73 



of corn, 142 

 Timber crops, 96 

 Time to prune, 192 

 Tips of corn, 134 

 Toads destroy insects, 223 

 Tobacco, shelter for, 165 

 Tomatoes, fertilizer for, 359 

 Tongue graft, 34 

 Treatment of seed potatoes, 231 

 Tree planting, 160, 161, 170 

 Arbor Day, 170 



seeds, 164, 165, 166 

 Trees influence water supply, 162, 163 



kinds of, 164, 172 



raising of, 33 



shape of, 168 



top-working, 38 

 Trotter, American, 246, 247 

 Tuber crops, 95 

 Type of corn, 133 

 Types of cattle, 257 

 horses, 241 

 wheat, 148, 149 

 Typhoid flies, 211 



Underdrainage, effects of, 62 



principles of, 67 

 Unsoundness in horses, 251 



Value of manures, 362 

 property, 344 

 the farm, 345 

 Variation among animals, 238 



in milk, causes of, 324 



laws of, 238 

 Varieties of chickens, 284, 287 



fruit, 294, 295 

 Vegetable gardening, 173, 179 



matter in soil, 53 

 Vegetables, hardy, and tender, 175 



planting distances for, 364 

 Ventilation by drainage, 67 



of barns, 327, 328 

 Vetch, 97 



Vines on buildings, 186 

 Vitality of seed corn, 134 



Wasp with cicada, 223 



Water, capillary, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 



free in soils, 58, 59 



in flesh, 305 

 plants, 14 

 soils, 58, 61 

 Water in soil formation, 44, 45, 46 



influenced by trees, 162, 163 

 Wax for grafting, 35 

 Waxing cotton for grafting, 35 

 Weathering of rocks, 44 

 Weed nuisance, 24 



seeds, identifying, 26 

 sprouting, 110, 114 

 Weeds classified, 29, 30 



collecting, 30 



defined, 29 



preventing, 73 

 Weevils, treatment for, 351 

 Weights of seeds, 354 



