194 INDEX 



s 



Saunders, work of, 143 



Scoring wheat, 90; score card, 91 



Seed, adaptation of, 29; breeding, 32; cleaning and grading, 



30; germination of, 16 

 Seed bed, firming of, 44; physical condition, 42; requirements, 



40, 175 

 Seeding, depth of, 62; early, 59; methods of, 60; thickness of, 



61, 184 

 Seeding machinery, 163; broadcast seeder, 163; drills, 164, 



165; disk drill, 167; forms of drills, 166 

 Shocking, 75; kinds of shocks, 76 

 Shrinkage of grain, 82 



Smut, damage from, 95; treatment of, 31, 96; hot water treat- 

 ment, 98; loose smut, 97 



Soil drifting, how to prevent, 55, 56; deep furrows, 58 

 Soil fertility, how maintained, 100; cause of loss, 101 

 Soil moisture, 45, 46; conservation of, 129, 153, 154 

 Soil mulch, 44 

 Soil required by wheat, 38 

 Spring mowing, 69 

 Spring wheat, 11; on fallow land, 50 

 Stacking, 77; how to begin, 78; how to complete, 79; not when 



damp, 81 



Subsurface packer, 44; Dunham packer, 47 

 Summer fallow, 51; clean summer fallow, 152; cultivation of, 



174; in regions of light rainfall, 152; methods of, 53 

 Summer tilling, 49, 54, 55; in Canada, 182; in California, 125 



T 



Threshing directly from the shock, 81; from the field, 83 

 Trap crops, 94 

 Turkey Red wheat, 22, 29, 30 



W 



Washington, culture methods in, 127 

 Weeds, 92 

 Wheat, countries, 11; chemical composition of, 28; flower 



and fruit, 16; hard wheat, 25; milling varieties, 23; 



Russian, 31; soft wheat, 24; stooling, 17; types of, 21; 



varieties, 20. 

 Wheat-sick land, 102 

 Winter killing on drilled land, 60; causes of, 63, 64; to prevent, 



65 

 Winter wheat, 11; followed by potatoes, 60; on Pacific coast, 



131; preparation of land for, 158; quantity of seed, 160; 



time to sow, 160; varieties in Canada, 142 



Y 

 Yields of wheat, cause of low yields, 70 



Z 

 Zavitz, work of, 144 



