General Index. 



479 



Machinery, sweep rake and stacker com- 

 bined (Figs. 65, 66, 67, 257, 258), 

 83, 314 



taxes, interest and depreciation on, 168, 



169 



tedder, hay (Fig. 252), 244, 248, 311 



tracks and carriers (Figs. 88, 93, 94, 95, 



267 to 270), 98, 321 



'tractor plowing, laying-off ground for 

 (Figs. 30, 226), 291 



wagons, hay (Figs. 86, 277), 80, 97, 



331, 459 

 seed, canvas-covered, 122, 270 



windrowing and bunching attachments 



on mower (Figs. 60, 116, 214, 244), 



120, 270, 308 

 Maintaining animals on alfalfa alone, 133, 



139, 412, 415, 418, 425 

 Making hay and storage, 63, 241, 247 

 Manure spreader (Figs. 24, 25, 53, 241), 



36, 62, 304 



lime applied by, 237 



Manuring, late cutting making necessary for 

 winter protection, 68 



soils (Figs. 17, 24, 25, 202), 36, 238 

 'top-dressing fields (Fig. 53), 62 

 cost, 168, 169 



Mammals in relation to alfalfa, 156, 158, 



161, 353 



Manholes, drainage system, 220 

 Market, grading hay for, 114, 455, 457 



Kansas City hay (Figs. 112, 367, 368, 



369), 115, 447 



quotations on hay, 6 



receipts at Kansas City for ten years, 453 

 Marketing hay (Figs. Ill, 112, 367, 368, 



369), 113, 115, 246, 470 



color as a factor in, 468 



-economy demands feeding, 366 



from the buyer's standpoint, 454 



shipper's standpoint, 457 



loading cars (Fig. Ill), 114, 455, 



456, 459 

 wagons (Figs. 85, 86, 372), 459 



seed (Fig. 119), 126, 271 



Markets, hay (Figs. 112, 367, 368, 369), 



113, 115, 246, 470 

 Meal, constituents, compared with hay, 407 



feeding value, 128, 442 



for cattle, beef, 414 

 dairy, 415 



horses and mules, 432 



humans, 438 



poultry, 437 



'Sheep (Fig. 121) 



swine, 423 



milling (Figs. 122, 364, 365, 366), 439 



stock foods from, 444, 472 

 Measuring hay, 461 



Media, history in (Fig. 148), 171 

 Medicago arborea, 180 



falcata, 180 



media, 181 



ruthenica, 181 



'Sativa, 171, 180, 181 



Meiller, H. F., article, 266 



Melchers, L. E., article, 339 



Men required in haying, 247 



Mexico, history in (Fig. 153), 176, 179 



Millar, G. C., early seeding, 13 



Millet, preceding alfalfa, 34, 235 



Milling industry, alfalfa (Figs. 122, 364, 



365, 366), 439 



Milo succeeding alfalfa, 151 to 155 

 Mixture, grasses with alfalfa, 50 

 Mohler, J. C., Secretary, 2, 3 

 Mohler, Martin, first census of acreage, 4 

 Moisture content, hay, 244 

 'Soil (Fig. 138), 151, 400 



Moisture, on outside of hay, effect on time 

 to cut, 70, 244 



passes out of stems and leaves, process, 



243 



requirements, alfalfa and other plants, 



190, 400 



Molahan, Charles, first seeding, 12 

 Mold in hay, 107 



lime or salt to prevent, 106, 247 

 Moles, in relation to alfalfa, 357, 366 

 Moors, history with, 175 

 Mound-building prairie ant (Fig. 342), 393 

 Mow, curing hay in, with blower, 261 



storing in (see "Storing") 



Mower (Figs. 56, 59, 243), 67, 248, 270, 

 305 



windrowing and bunching attachments 

 (Figs. 60, 116, 214, 244), 120, 270, 308 

 Mowing (see "Cutting") 



Mowing away (see "Storing") 



Muffins, alfalfa, 438 



Mulching with manure in case of too-late 



cutting, 68 



Mules (see "Horses and Mules") 

 Nabours, Robert K., article, 353 

 Name of "alfalfa," 171, 180 

 Nebraska's acreage, 6 

 Net profit (see "Profit") 

 Nitrogen-gathering bacteria (see "Bacteria") 

 Nitrogen, 216 

 Nodules on roots, nitrogen-gathering (Figs. 



37, 38), 45, 46, 215, 236 

 North America, history in, 176 to 179 

 Nurse crop, 49, 236 

 Nursery, alfalfa, 193 

 Oats, composition, 408, 429 



nurse crop, 49, 236 



preceding alfalfa, 34 



succeeding alfalfa, 151 to 155 

 Oldest field in Kansas, 13 



Old German Frankish alfalfa, 183 

 Olophant. Jasper, early seeding, 12 

 Origin of alfalfa and of its name, 171 

 Outlet, drainage system (Fig. 198), 220, 



223 



Overflowed alfalfa, 164 

 Overpasturing, 129, 130, 133, 135 

 Packer, soil, 40 

 Packing hay, in storage, 106 



of pastures, 135 



seed bed, 235 



Pasture, cutting hay from and freshening, 

 130, 135, 287 



hog, foreign seed for, 15 



Pasturing, age of field when permissible, 

 135, 242 



alternate or rotation (Fig. 123), 130, 



135 



cattle, beef (Fig. 125), 132 

 dairy (Fig. 131), 132, 417 



closeness of, 135 



effect on stand, 130, 135 



height of growth before permissible, 135 



horses and mules (Fig. 128), 132, 434 



late, effect of, 67, 366 



poultry (Fig. 137), 148, 436 



sheep (Fig. 127), 132, 417 



swine (Figs. 123, 124), 129, 287, 432, 



425, 460 



wet weather in relation to, 135 

 Paterson, A. M., article, 417 

 Persia, history in, 171 



Peruvian alfalfa (Fig. 159), 184, 191 

 Pests, affecting alfalfa, 156, 332, 339, 353, 



367 

 Peters, G., inspector of hay, Kansas City 



market (Fig. 369), 450 

 Peters, M. C., alfalfa miller, 440 

 Phosphorus, fertilizing alfalfa soils with, 



238 



