INDEX 



A 



Acme harrow, 143 

 Alaska wheat, 21 

 Alberta Red wheat, 142, 143 

 Alfalfa as a fertilizer, 112 



B 



Backsetting, 148, 149, 151, 159 



Binder, how to operate, 187 



Bluestem wheat, 22 



Breaking prairie sod, 148; deep breaking, 151 



California, methods of farming in, 123; old methods, 124 



Campbell packer, 44 



Campbell system, 181 



Canada, culture methods in, 146; development of, 14; part 



of Great Plains, 134; rainfall in, 137; soil of, 135; wheat 



areas, 138; wheat production, 12 

 Capillarity, how to restore, 46 

 Cereals of America, 6; world's production, 9, 10 

 Chinch bug, 92, 94 



I Climate, influence of, 32; wheat requirements, 38 

 Club Head wheat, 22, 23; on Pacific coast, 129 

 Combine, 73, 74; where used, 74; in California, 121 

 Community seed, 36 

 Cost of production, 88; in different countries, 89; on Pacific 



coast, 133 

 Cultivation, after seeding, 65, 184; shallow furrow, 57 



D 



Disk cultivator, 48 



Durum wheat, 22, 23, 25; in Canada, 141 



E 



Egyptian wheat, 21 



Elevators, co-operative, 87; independent, 85 



Embryo, 19 



Endosperm, 19 



F 

 Fertilization, green manure, 117; manure, 115; summer 



fallowing, 117; use of straw, 114 

 Fertilizers needed by wheat, 108 

 Formaldehyde for stinking smut, 96; a poison, 97 



