INDEX 



291 



food, 29; keeping milk pure 

 and clean, 29; milking the 

 cows, 29, 30; butter-fat, 24, 27, 

 30; ready to churn, 30; churn- 

 ing, 30; preparing butter for 

 market, 30, 31; the churn, 31, 

 32; cheese making, 32; by- 

 products, 32, 33; souring of 

 milk, 215; milk a germ carrier, 

 220, 221 



Mil^ sugar, 32 



MiU: test, Babcoclc, 24, 27, 228, 

 247 



Minorcas, 50 



Mold, 213, 214 



Moles, 79 



Mosquitoes, 61, 64, 67, 79, 216, 

 218, 219 



"Mother of vlnegrar," 215 



Moths, 64, 79, 196 



Mulberry trees, 80. 82 



Mustard, 196 



Nisrlithawlcs, 79, 82 



Nitrogen, 91-93, 95, 146, 160, 184 

 Nuthatches, 78 



Oats, 9, 10, 20, 85, 87, 92, 94, 98, 

 138-142, 271; a heavy crop 

 (Fig. 76), 140; climate and soil, 

 138; preparing seed, 138; test- 

 ing, and easy sowing, 139; 

 seed bed, 140; moisture need- 

 ed, 139; rotation, 141; harvest- 

 ing, 141; uses, 142; fertilizer, 

 280; seed per acre and legal 

 weight per bushel, 283 



Oil meal, 20 



Onions, 187, 197, 283 



Oranges, 283 



Orchards, 172-181, 274; helping 

 one another, 172; keeping near 

 market or railroad, 172; hill 

 lands for orchards, 172; the 

 best slope, 172; influence of 

 water, 173; kinds of soil for 

 fruit, 173; preparation of fruit 

 land, 173; planting trees, 173; 

 setting trees, 174; irrigating 

 (Fig. 93), 174; packing about 

 the roots, 175; tilling orchards, 

 175; crop between trees (Fig. 

 94), 175; injury to trees, 176; 

 pruning, 176; spraying, 176, 

 177; Bordeaux mixture, .177; 

 spraying machines, 178; spray- 

 ing outfit (Fig. 95), 179; 

 spraying (Fig. 96), 181; thin- 

 ning fruit. 178-180; harvesting 

 fruit. 180; peaches, 180; apples, 

 180, 181 



Orioles, 82 



Owls. 79 



Paris-green, 165, 177, 178, 196, 

 278 



Parsley, 283 



Parsnips, 193 



Peaches, 172, 174, 177, 178, 180, 

 283 



Pears, 85, 173. 174, 177, 179, 283 



Peas, 10, 79, 187, 190, 191, 283 



Peppers, 187 



Percheron, 5; Percheron stallion 

 (Fig. 3), 4; prize six-horse 

 team (Fig, 4), 5. 



Phosphorus, 93, 95 



Picket rope with a half-granny 

 and half-hitch, 12 



Pistil, the, 98, 99 



Plants and how they grow, 96, 

 265; learning about plants, 96; 

 dividing their work, 96; roots 

 and their work, 96, 97; the 

 stem, 97; leaves, 97, 98; flov/er, 

 98; seed, 98; father and moth- 

 er, 98; corn flowers, 99; carry- 

 ing the pollen, 99; night work- 

 ers, 99, 100; pollen from other 

 plants, 100; kinds of plants, 

 100; why different, 100, 101; 

 interesting habit, 101; scatter- 

 ing their seed, 101, 102; how 

 man helps, 102 



Plow, the first, 18; how to plow, 

 120, 121; plowing corn, 122 



Plums, 173, 174, 283 



Pljrmonth rocks, barred (Fig. 

 31), 51; white (Fig. 32), 52 



Poland China, 39, 42 (Fig. 26), 

 42 



FoUinadon, 98, 99; carrying pol- 

 len, 75, 99; night workers, 99, 

 100; pollen from other plants, 

 100 



Pop com, 122 



Potash, 160, 184 



Potato beetle, 79, 165, 177; at 

 work on plant (Fig. 89), 164 



Potatoes, Irish, 161-167, 272; 

 food for chickens, 54; clay soil 

 not good for, 85; in rotation, 

 94, 190; early home, 161; in 

 Ireland, 161; widely grown 

 crop, 161; a tuber, 161, 162; 

 standard varieties (Fig. 88), 

 162; kinds of seed, 162, 163; 

 eyes, 102, 163; cutting seed, 

 163; how to choose seed, 163- 

 165; climate and soil, 165; 

 cultivation, 165; insect en- 

 emies, 165; potato bug (Fig. 

 89). 164; scab, 165, 166; blight, 

 166; harvesting, 166, 167; field, 

 yielding 350 bushels per acre 

 (Fig. 90), 166; mulching for, 

 191; fertilizer, 280; seed per 



