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INDEX 



Spinach, 179 

 Squab for profit, 115 

 Squash, 73 

 Sterilization, 247 

 Stock, live, 151 

 Stove, Franklin, 197 

 Strawberry, 53, 130 



garden on roof, 226 



yield, 175 



Stumps, to burn out, 184 

 Sugar factory, 36 

 Sunflower, seed industry, 58 

 Swamp land uses, 164 



Taft, Wm. N., "Technical World 



Magazine," Menu, 231 

 Tea, experience in So. Carolina, 215 

 Tents, as a makeshift, 193 

 Texas, land offer, 206 

 Thistles, riddance of, 190 

 Timber, 219 



miscellaneous state taxes, 222 

 Time for sowing seed, 62 



crops are ready, 63 

 Title, perfect secured, 172 

 Toads, their value, 131 

 Tobacco, 181 



Connecticut, 175 



Maryland, 175 



Ohio, 59 



Pennsylvania, 59 

 Tomato, 60, 89, 175 



culture, 102 



Tools and equipment, 79 

 Tractors instead of horses, 230 

 Trees, 219 



advantages, 184 



pine, 195 



States that distribute young trees, 



221 



Trout, domestic, 153 

 Truck, dried, 241 

 Turtles, profitable, 152 



Udo as substitute for asparagus, 235 

 U. S. Fish Commissioners' report, 151 



Vacant lot cultivation, 9, 22, 75, 

 258, 260 



Vacant lot experience, 38 



gardeners, 259 

 Vegetables, blanching, 243, 249 



cabbage, 32 



drying, 241, 242 



miscellaneous, 89 



peas, 32 



principles of vegetable gardening, 

 105 



wild, 149 

 Virginia, 176 



climate'. 177 



tobacco, 179 



War, result to land, 261 

 Water supply, 194 



transportation, 100 

 Weed killer, hemp as, 190 

 Wells, artesian, 189 

 Wheat, 97, 163, 222, 239 



Buffum No. 17 Winter wheat, 239 



Turkey red wheat, 239 



yielded in various states, 6 

 Wheel hoe, a blessing, 80, 190 

 Wilcox in "Farming," 213 



durum or macaroni, 213 

 Wild herbs, fruits, and roots, 215 

 Windows, double, 197 

 Wood, Samuel, quoted, "Gardening, 



Multum in Parvo," 66 

 Woodchuck, a dainty, 159 

 Woodland, products in board meas- 

 ure, 220 

 Wood lots, 219 



fires, 221 



taxes, 221, 222 



Yield, apples, 180 



beans, snap, 179 



cantaloupes, 179 



emmer, 239 



lettuce, 179 



mint, per acre, 227 



spinach, 179 



strawberries, 175 



tomatoes, 175 

 Youth, in tenements, 208 



on farms, 209 



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