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INDEX. 



Cutting for soiling 1 weakens, 89. 

 Cutting promotes thrift, 91. 



Danger from bloat, 338. 

 Danger from treading, 92. 

 Deep tiling machine, a, 256. 

 Deficiency in soil, 104. 

 Degree of dryness, 314. 

 Depth to apply lime, 120. 

 Desirable conditions, 467. 

 Developing draft horses, 379. 

 Developing valuable strains for 



seed production, 461. 

 Digestibility of alfalfa, 366. 

 Disk harrow and drag, 196. 

 Disk with care, 255. 

 Distributing lime, 128. 

 Do not dry hay too much, 320. 

 Do not overstock, 404. 

 Double system best, 325. 

 Drainage, 102. 

 Drilling in the seed, 220. 

 Driveway, 469. 

 Dry-land alfalfa, 82. 



Early cutting hurtful, 325. 



Early start desirable, 421. 



Easy of transportation, 418. 



Effect of bees and other in- 

 sects, 432. 



Effects of lime, 122. 



English bluegrass (Festuca 

 elactor), 276. 



Eradicating fox-tail grass, 158. 



Essentials in culutre, 95. 



Essential to profit, 392. 



Evidence of lime, 113. 



Ewes get too fat, 395. 



Example of farm practice, an, 

 154. 



Example of spring sowing, 196. 



Experiences of farmers, 412. 



Experiments in Kansas, 382. 



Examine samples, 442. 



Fall seeding after wheat, 209. 



Fall seeding of alfalfa, 204. 



Farm machines for crushing, 

 131. 



Fattening sale horses, 377. 



Feeding methods, 411. 



Feeding operations in the west, 

 399. 



Feeding practices and actual re- 

 sults, 410. 



Feeding value of hay, 396. 



Fertility of irrigated lands, 278. 



Fertility and abandoned farms, 

 132. 



Fertilization, 97. 



Fertilizer distributer, 186. 



Findings of experiment stations, 

 388. 



Fine alfalfa pork, 403. 



Finishing cattle on alfalfa, 352. 



First cutting, the, 294. 

 First growth, the, 88 

 First irrigation, the, 285. 

 Flooding system, the, 283. 

 Food character of alfalfa, 410 

 Forms and kinds of lime, 115. 

 Frame, 469. 

 Free tests, 444. 

 Further treatment, 199. 



Grain needed, 407. 

 Grapple forks, 305. 

 Grasshoppers, 426. 

 Grassing the ditch banks, 289. 

 Grazing pigs on alfalfa, 344. 

 Grazing sheep on alfalfa, 393. 

 Grazing spring lambs on al- 

 falfa, 343. 

 Green alfalfa in dairy ration?. 



o o o 



Giving the run of the field, 415. 

 Good seed crop, a, 435. 

 Growing humus-making crops. 

 159. 



Hardiness of the plant, 92. 



Hardy alfalfa, 82. 



Harvesting the seed crop, 459 



Hay dealers' classifications, 357. 



Hay loader, the, 303. 



Hay sleds, 304. 



Hog a grazing animal, the, 402. 



Home testing, 444. 



How long should alfalfa stand, 



239. 



How many cows, 247. 

 How much phosphorus, 187. 

 How often to irrigate, 286. 

 How to get bacteria, 229. 

 How to plow deep, 192. 

 How well will this pay, 1SS. 



Ice will kill, 93. 



Importance of good seed, 441. 



Importation of yellow trefoil 

 seed, 442. 



Increasing water-holding ca- 

 pacity, 251. 



Infecting a field, 163. 



Inoculated soil a fertilizer labo- 

 ratory, 234. 



Inoculation, 199. 



Inoculation an aid, 207. 



Inoculation in advance, 2.11, 232. 



Inoculation with soil, 230. 



Insects and the setting of seed, 

 449. 



In summary, 228. 



In Wyoming, 173. 



Irrigation by contour levees, 

 280. 



Irrigation by the furrow 

 method, 282. 



Jack's use pf crimson clover, 

 214, 



