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INDEX 



Delaware, soil, 171 



tax, 173 



Denmark, small holdings, 7* 

 Diminishing returns, Engel, 34 

 Dogs, breeding, 158 

 Drier, homemade, 244 

 Ducks, 114 



white Pekins for dry sites, 114 



Electric juice, 244 

 Emmer in place of corn, 238 

 Engel, Dr., on scientific farming, 34 

 Ether on plants, 213 



Fairbrother, W. F., on costs and 



products of a garden, 75 

 Fairchild, Dr. David S., experi- 

 ments in foods, 232 

 Farm-hunting, 20 



Farm, minister's, near Philadelphia, 

 216 



Bonanza, 6 



worn out or abandoned, 164 

 Farmer, Successful, quoted, 54 

 Farming, book, 82 



fox, 160 



fur, 160 

 Fertilizers : manure, 87 



nitrate of soda, 89, 90 



nitrogen, 88 

 Fish, bass as food, 154 



bass as game, 153 



shell, 159 



trout, 153 

 Flowers, 134 



bulbs, 214 



Maryland, 176 



prices, 139 



Foods, experimental, 231 

 Forestry information, where avail- 

 able, 219 

 Fox fanning, 160 

 Free Acres, 196 



Freight rates, competing, 14-15 

 Frogs, feeding for food, 151 

 Fullerton, Edith Loring, 184 



Garden Primer, 29 



Gardens, arbor, in Germany, 265 



products, 271 



workers, 270 

 Gardens, beginner in market, 98 



kitchen, 70 



Gardens, market, 81, 82 



requisites for, 9 



roof, 8 



vacant (city) lot, 9 



war, 211 

 Ginseng, 144 

 Goats, Angora, 191 



clearing the land, 191 

 Golden Seal, medicinal weed, 143 

 Gooseberries, 129 

 Grapes, arbor, 127 

 Green beans, 72 

 Greenhouses, cheap and dear, 107 



Hares, 116 



Hartman, D. L., on strawberries, 53 



on various products, 60 

 Hemp, as land clearer, 190 

 Herb, importation, 148 



report, 147 



time for collecting, 146 

 Hiring help, advantages of, 38 

 Homecrofters' Guild, Watertown, 



Mass., 206 



Honey, a business, 118 

 Hotbeds, 102, 103 



cost of, 104-106 

 Houses, Aladdin, 197 



cement blocks, 199 



portable, 197 



Huckleberry, the untameable, 132 

 Hundred Year Club, G. W. Smith, 



203 



Hunn, on garden advice for beginner, 

 73 



Ice, procuring and preserving, 246 

 Immigrants, advantages by remain- 

 ing East, 176 



Immigration to the South, 15 

 Irrigation, costly, 92 



overhead, 230 

 Italy, destruction of agricultural, 41 



Japanese intense culture, 76 

 Jelly, pulp rose berries, 226 

 Jersey, wonders of Island of, 7, 8 

 Jujube (fruit), 232 - 



Labor, lack of, 180 

 Land, amount of space needed to feed 

 family, 37 



