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acre and legal weight per 

 bushel, 283; planting, 283 

 Potatoes, sweet, 167 

 Poultry, 49, 257; original home, 

 49; value to farmer, 49; eggs, 

 49-51, 54; four classes, 50; 

 Cochins, 50; Brahmas (Fig. 

 30), 50; Leghorns, 50; Minor- 

 cas, 50; Bantams, 50; general- 

 purpose fowls, 50, 51; Ply- 

 mouth Rocks (Fig. 31), 51; 

 (Fig. 32), 52; Wyandottes, 51; 

 Rhode Island Reds, 51; hab- 

 its, 51; nests, 51, 52; in pens, 

 53; care of henhouse, 53; sani- 

 tary poultry house (Fig. 33), 

 55; laying hens, 53, 54; hatch- 

 ing little chicks, 54; how to 

 care for the brood, 54, 55; 

 chicken lice, 55 ; brooder 

 chicks, 55, 56; incubator babies 

 (Fig. 34), 56; fattening broil- 

 ers, 56, 57; poultry pests, 57 



Preserving' foods, 213-215; germs 

 which help and hinder, 213; 

 yeast plant, 213; making 

 bread, 213; mold, 213, 214; 

 canning fruit, 214; bacteria, 

 214; smoking meats, 214, 215; 

 cold storage, 215; preserving 

 fruits, 215; souring of milk. 

 215 



Problems, 241-275 



Prunes, 178 



PuddlinflT, 209 



Pumpkins, 283 



Quail, see Bobwliite 

 Quinces, 283 



Badishes, 96, 187. 190, 193, 283 



BasTweed, 81, 168 



Baisins, 198 



Bakes, hand-dump (Fig. 79), 148; 



self-dump (Fig. 80), 149 

 Baspberries, 198, 199, 283 

 Bats, 57, 79 

 Beap liook, 127, 132; ancient tool 



for reaping grain (Fig. 69), 



127 

 Beaper, 133, 134; the first (Fig. 



73), 134 

 Bed-bird, see Cardinal 

 Bed-lieaded Woodpecker (Fig. 



48), 77, 78 

 Bed rust, 199 



Beef knot or square knot, 12 

 Bliode Island Beds, 51 

 Bhubarb, 283 

 Bice, 126, 157, 161; growing, 158; 



products and enemies, 158- 159 

 Bice-Stalk borer, 159 



Beads, country, 201-212; im- 

 portance of good roads, 201; 

 sociability encouraged, 201; 

 good roads and schools, 201, 

 202; city people interested, 

 202; marketing farm produce, 

 202; fine public roads raise 

 value of farm lands (Fig. 101), 

 203; first expert road builders, 

 204; roads abroad and at home, 

 204; plantation mud pikes, 

 204, 205; early roads, 205; toll 

 roads, 205, 206; working out 

 road tax, 206; every township 

 should own a steam roller 

 (Fig. 103), 206; a better way, 

 206, 207; state's part, 207; 

 drainage, 207, 208; grading and 

 draining are essential to good 

 roads (Fig. 104), 207; grading, 

 208; grading a country road 

 (Fig. 105), 210; surfacing clay 

 roads, 208; sand roads, 208; 

 loam roads, 208, 209; split-log 

 drag, 209; other aids to good 

 roads, 209; gravel and shell 

 surfacing, 209, 210; stone 

 roads, 210; Roman roads, 210; 

 macadam, 210, 211; brick, 212; 

 a brick road needs little care 

 and repair and brings the mar- 

 ket nearer (Fig. 102), 205; lay- 

 ing a brick road (Fig. 106), 

 211; draft on different sur- 

 faces, 212 



Bobins, 78 



Bock phosphate, 95 



Botation of crops, 92, 93; good 

 reasons for, 93, 94; weeds 

 checked by, 93, 170; in the 

 north, 94; in potato states, 94; 

 for cotton, 94; for corn, 94, 120 



"Boyal jelly," 72 



Bust, 131 



Bye, 92, 113, 115, 126, 143-145, 

 283; an old crop, 144; as pas- 

 ture, 144; enemies, 145; at- 

 tacked by ergot (Fig. 77), 144; 

 uses, 145 



Salsify, 193, 283 



Sanitation, farm, 216-224; loca- 

 tion of farmhouse, 216; dry 

 surroundings, 216; shade, 217; 

 water supply, 217; sewage a 

 source of disease, 217, 218; 

 river water, 218; mosquitoes, 

 218, 219; house fly, 219, 220; 

 milk a germ carrier, 220, 221; 

 ventilating the barn, 221; cold 

 air heavier than warm, 221; 

 home ventilation, 221, 222; 

 school ventilation, 222, 223; a 



