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INDEX 



boy's garden, 182 — beautiful as 

 well as profitable (Fig. 98), 

 185; a school garden (Fig. 97), 

 183; gardens everywhere, 182- 

 183; location and soil 183; fer- 

 tilizing, 184, 280 ; preparation, 

 184, 185; tools, 185; mulch, 186; 

 planting, 186, 187; transplant- 

 ing, 187; window box, 187; hot- 

 beds, 188; cold frames, 188; 

 preparing for transplanting, 

 189; transplanting, 189; ro- 

 tating crops, 189, 190; plant- 

 ing between rows, 190; weeds, 

 190; mulching, 190; see also 

 names of vegetables and 

 fruits, 



G-eese, 59, 60; Christmas bird, 

 59 (Fig. 37), 60 



Gnats, 83 



Gooseberries, 283 



Grafting-, 102 



Grapes, 85, 177, 197, 198 



Grapevines, 102, 198 



Grasshoppers, 49, 58. 61, 78, 82 



"Greens," 194 



Grosbeaks, 79-81 



Grubs, 193 



Guernseys, 18, 23, 24 



"Halter-break," 11 

 Hansom cab, 7 



Harrow, disk or spring tooth, 121 

 (Fig. 66), 122 



Harvesters, combined, 135, 136; 

 steam, 136, 137 



Hawks, chicken, 57, 83 . 



Hay, 9, 85, 146-153; timothy, 146 

 (Fig. 78), 147; the clovers, 146, 

 150; alfalfa, 150-153; hay load- 

 er (Fig. 81), 150; stacking hay 

 (Fig. 82), 15i; cowpeas, 153 



Header, the, 133 



Herefords, 18 



Hogfs, see Swine 



Holsteins, 18, 24; a record cow 

 (Fig. 14), 23 



Horse, the, 1, 241; taming the 

 wild, 1; variety in size, 1; 

 horse's foot, 1, 2; riding horse- 

 back, 2; first work animal, 2; 

 the horse and the Indian, 2; 

 draft horses, 3-5; coach and 

 roadsters, 3, 4; how to hitch, 

 5, 6; driving fast, 6, 7; race 

 horses, 7; horses as food, 8; 

 proportion of, to people, 8; 

 horse power cheap, 8; cheaper 

 than human labor (Fig. 82), 

 151; feeding, 8, 9; good variety, 

 9, 10; cleaning and care, 10; 

 healthy shoulders, 10, 11; 

 stable, 11; shoeing, 11; break- 



ing colts, 11, 14; his first 

 bridle, 14; driving the colt, 14; 

 signals, 14, 15; kindness pays, 

 15; see also names of breeds 



Horse-radisli, 193 



Hotbeds, 187, 188 



Humus, 87, 88, 94, 149 



Indian farming*, 114 



Insecticides and fungicides, 277- 

 279 



Insects, 61-67; enemies, 61; 

 friends, 61; parts of insects, 

 61; biting insects, 61, 62; suck- 

 ing insects, 62; contact in- 

 secticides, 62; moulting, 63, 64; 

 stages of development, 64, 65; 

 larva stage, 65; pupa stage, 65, 

 67; freezing the insect, 67; in- 

 sect life short, 67; see also 

 names of insects. 



Irrig-ation, 107, 108; private irri- 

 gation plant (Fig. 56), 108; ir- 

 rigating an orchard (Fig. 93), 

 174 



Jerseys, 18. 22, 23, 24; the dairy 



type (Fig. 13), 22 

 June-berry trees, 80 

 June bug- (Fig. 42), 65 



Kerosene emulsion, 63, 278 

 King-birds, 78 



Knots that every farmer should 

 know (Fig. 8), 12, 13 



Leaf-bligrlit, 192 



Leg-horns, 50 



LegTimes, 147, 150. 153, 214 



Lettuce, 187, 190, 196, 283 



Lime-sulphur, 279 



Linseed meal, 21 



Loam, 85 



Macaroni, 137 



Manure, as fertilizer, 95, 160, 

 184; the best and cheapest fer- 

 tilizer (Fig. 54), 103, 104; old 

 and new ways of spreading 

 (Figs. 64, 65), 120, 121 



Maple trees, 101 



Martins, 82 



May beetle, see June bugr 



Meadow lark (Fig. 50), 79, 81 



Meadow mice, 79 



Meal, as calf feed, 20, 21 



Melons, 196; muskmelons, 197 



Merinos, 36-38; merino ram (Fig. 

 21), 36 



Milch cows, see Dairy cows 



Mildew, 177, 191, 198 



Milk and butter, 29, 251; milk as 



