INDEX 



365 



Land rent, 337 

 Lawns, 306 

 Legumes, 104 

 Lettuce, 140 

 Light, 170 

 Lime. 34, 37 



Lime-sulphur mixture, 157 

 Live stock: 



Care and management of, 166 



Classes of, 166 



Importance of, 165 



In relation to soil, 165 



Shelter for, 170 

 Loam, 11 



Machinery: 



Investment in, 270 



Power, 349 



Shelter for, 271 



Use of, 271 

 Mangels, 94 , 

 Manure: 



Amounts produced, 38 



Composition of, 38 

 Manure spreader, 92 

 Marketing: 



Butter, 295 



Eggs, 298 



Milk, 345 

 Meadow, 335 

 Melons, 142 

 Milk: 



As human food, 212 



Care of, 213 



Composition of, 212 



Sampling, 217 



Selling, 345 



Sterilizing, 212 



Testing, 214, 217, 352 



Weighing, 216, 352 

 Millet, 116 



Miscellanous crops, 116 

 Moisture, 20, 71 

 Morning-glory, 132 

 Mulch, 72, 153 

 Mules. 166 

 Mustard seed, 128 



Nests, 252 

 Nitrogen : 



Added to soil, 104 



Need of in plants, 32 



Sources of. 33 

 Nodules, 104 

 Nutriemts, 175, 201 



Oats: 



Cost of production, 55 



Disease and insects, 56 



Harvesting, 54 



Importance of, 53 



In rotation, 55, 333 



Kinds, 53 



Smut of, 50, 56, 157 



Soil for, 53 



Threshing, 54 



Uses of, 56 

 Oils. 174 

 Onions. 139 

 Orchard, 151 

 Orchard grass, 115 

 Outside feeding, 169 

 Overrun, 344 

 Oxygen, 13 

 Paris green, 163 

 Parsnips. 139 

 Pasteurizing milk, 313 

 Pasture: 



Alfalfa, 109 



Benefit to soil, 335 



Blue grass, 242 



Brome grass, 114, 242 



Field peas, 242 



Meadow, 97, 335 



Rape, 242 



Red clover, 242 



Rye, 242 



Timothy, 113 



White clover, 242 

 Peas, 138, 140 

 Phosphate rock, 36 

 Phosphorus: 



Need of in plants, 33 



Sources of, 35 

 Pigeon grass seed, 128 

 Pigweed, 129 

 Planning: 



Buildings, 273 



Farms, 327 



Plant food: 



Amount of, 15 

 . Available, 15 



In fertilizers, 31 



In the air, 13 



In the soil. 13 



Liberated by plowing, 21 



Soluble, 14. 16 

 Plant diseases: 



Loss from. 156 



Prevalence of, 156 



Remedies, for, 156 et seq. 



