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AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS 



Colostrum, 220. 

 Consumption, germ of, 101. 

 Corms, 272. 

 Corn, 38, 39, 168, 253, 254, 331. 



blossom of, 47. 



injury to roots of, 29. 



roots, 30. 



selection of seed, 69. 

 Cotton, 150, 331. 



boll weevil, 298. 



resistant variety, 105. 



Sea Island, 105. 



wilt, 115. 

 Cow, the dairy, 216. 



care of, 218. 



Cowpeas, 33, 37, 38, 39, 76, 262. 

 Cream, 221. 



Crop rotation, illustration of, 40. 

 Crops, 148, 149. 



rotation of, 9, 21, 22, 35. 



value per acre of, 149. 

 Crosses, 50. 

 Cross pollination, 50. 

 Cucumber, 261. 



beetle, 262. 

 Curculio, plum, 131. 

 Currant, 62. 

 Cuttings, 54, 56, 57, 61, 269, 270. 



Dahlia, 272, 273, 276. 

 Dairying, 216, 224. 

 Dendrolene, 135. 

 Diphtheria, germ of, 101. 

 Diseases of plants, 94. 

 Domestic animals, 182. 

 Drainage, benefits of, 15. 

 Dry farming, 305. 

 Ducks, 204. 



Egg plants, 249, 251, 262. 



Farm crops, 148. 



Fats, 213, 214. 



Feeding, reasons for, 211. 



Feeding stuffs, digestible nutrients 



in, 214, 215. 



growing, on the farm, 228. 

 Fertilization, 48. 

 Fertilizers, 24, 28, 331. 

 Field insects, 118, 140. 

 Figs, 61. 

 Fire blight, 103. 

 Flax, 65. 

 Flea-beetle, 144. 

 Floriculture, 247. 

 Flower, the, 44. 

 Flower gardening, 268. 

 Fly, 120. 

 Forage, 284. 

 Formalin, 108, in. 

 Fowls, 204. 

 Fruit mold, 1 16. 

 Fruit rot, 94. 



Fruit tree, how to raise a, 82. 

 Fultz, Abraham, 68. 

 Fungi, 98. 



Garden, 179. 

 Garden insects, 118, 140. 

 Gardening, 247. 

 Geese, 204. 

 Geranium, 271. 



Germs, 33, 34, 104 ; see also Bac- 

 teria. 



Gideon, Mr., 61. 

 Girdler, 137. 

 Girdling, 43, 44. 

 Glacier, 3, 4, 5. 

 Gladiolus, 250. 

 Gooseberries, 62. 

 Grafting, 58, 83. 



