INDEX 



Acre, rented, 2 



size of, 2 



yields, 43, 47, 52 

 Agricultural Colleges, 210 



Department, Ass't Sec'y Carl 



Vrooman quoted, 33, 47 

 Agriculture for Beginners, 213 

 Alfalfa, 222, 239 

 Animals, wild, as food, 159, 235 

 Apples, 124-180 



culture, 124, 180 



seed experiment in Minnesota, 



214 



Asparagus, 57, 81 

 Atlantic Seaboard, 164 



Squab Co., quoted, 115 



Bacteria, nitrogenous, 91 



Bailey, Prof. L. H., quoted, 35, 105 



Balls, carbolic moth, with potato 



seeds, 



Barrel hoops, 122 

 Barron, Leonard, 107 

 Bats, as mosquito destroyers, 131 

 Beans, green, 72 



Lima, 72 



snap, 179 



soy, 233 



Bee-keeping, 116 

 Beets, 36, 89 



Berlin's Sociological Bowers, 264 

 Birds, fancy breeding, 156 

 Blackberries, 130 

 Blueberries, 132 



J. H. Hale quoted, 132 

 British Isles, vegetation drawbacks, 8 

 Buffum's, Prof., plants, 237, 239 

 Buildings, sufficient on land, 193, 259 

 Bulbs, 214 



experience in Puget Sound coun- 

 try hyacinths and tulips 

 Burroughs, Julian, his garden ex- 

 perience, 77 



Cabbage, 89 

 Canning, 241 



cold pack, 247 



five principles of, 248 



in Maryland, 175 

 Cantaloupes, 179 

 Carp, domesticated, 152 

 Cart, capacity in bushels, 2 

 Cat breeding, 158 

 Cattle, on small holdings, 4 

 Celery, profit and loss, 90 

 Cherries, 128, 241 

 Chicory, Whitloof or Belgian, 234 

 City drift a mere symptom, 1 

 Clearing land dynamite, 183, 191 



away useless trees, 186 

 Colonies, summer, for city people, 264 

 Containers, glass and tin, 249 

 Cooperation, retail, 252 

 Corn, 72, 222 



matures, 240 



planting, 214 

 Cottage, complete, 198 

 Cotton, 222 

 Coupin, Henri, on hot water baths 



for plants, 228 



Coville, Frederick V., on grain, 96 

 Cows, 41 



Cranberry bogs, 131 

 Creameries, 254 

 Cropping, companion main and 



secondary crops, 64 

 Cucumbers, 55, 73 

 Cultivation, intensive, compared, 2 



best place to carry on, 163 

 Currants, 129 



Dasheen substitute for potato, 235 

 Dates, 233 

 Delaware, 170 



climate, 172 



game, 173 



home of small fruits, 172 



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