INDEX 



419 



Environment, effect of, 114-124. 

 Epsom salts, 58, 133. 

 Erigeron, 168. 

 Erinose, 219. 

 Eucalyptus, 77*, 78, 117. 

 Eucharidium, 330. 

 Europe, 315, 322. 

 Exercise, 371-376. 



Fallow, 126. 



Farming, dry, 49, 50*, 164. 



Fat, 83, 86, 347; test for, 83. 



Feeding of farm animals, 354. 



Feeding roots, 15. 



Ferments, 355. 



Fertilization, 139-148. 



Fertilizer laws, 148. 



Fertilizers, 139-148, 398. 



Fiber crops, 295-299. 



Fibrous seed covers, 3. 



Field crops, 273-299. 



Fig, 23 ; pollination of, 95. 



Filaree, 170, 174* 



Filbert, 315. 



Filtration of water, 258. 



Fish, 208. 



Fish scrap, 145. 



Flavoring extracts, 307. 



Flax, 3, 297. 



Flies, 208-209, 224, 225. 



Flint, 57. 



Flooding, 17, 51, 52*. 



Flour, 273. 



Flower, 91, 92*, 93*, 94*, 120. 



Flowers, effect of light on, 120; 



effect of wind on, 120. 

 Foehn winds, 164. 

 Fog, 160*. 

 Food, 347-360; digestion of, in 



plants, 86; effect on plant, 122; 



how used by plant, 81 ; need of,. 1, 



2, 114, 347-360; stored in plant, 



90. 



Foods, test for, 83. 

 Foothill slopes, 161. 

 Forage crops, 281-288. 

 Force of swelling of seeds, 6, 7*, 



8*. 

 Forecasting the weather, 150. 



Forests, 335*, 336*, 337*. 



Forestry, 334-345. 



Formalin, 237, 255, 261. 



Fowl, 400*. v 



Foxtail, 179, 284. 



France, 299, 309. 



Freezing, action on rock, 19; effect 



on plant, 123; protection against, 



124. 



French prune, 110*. 

 Frijoles, 280. 

 Frog, 85* ; as weather indicator, 156 ; 



devours insects, 225. 

 Frost, 149; see Freezing, 123. 

 Fruit, 96-98; care of, 98; color of, 



98, 99; distribution of, 98, 99; 



effect of light on, 120 ; ripening of, 



97, 98 ; thinning of, 96. 

 Fruit fly, 208. 

 Fruit orchard, 300*. 

 Fruit thrips, 218. 

 Fruit trees, 121; die back of, 249; 



red spider of, 219*, 220*. 

 Fruits, 120. 

 Fumigation, 184. 

 Fungi, 227, 264, 413. 

 Furrow, 63, 64*. 

 Furrow irrigation, 51, 52*. 

 Furrow slice, 63, 64*. 



Galveston, injured by storm, 152. 



Garlic, 323. 



Gasolene, for poisoning weeds, 166. 



Geese, 404. 



Georgia collard, 268*. 



Geranium, 78*, 100. 



German coach horse, 380. 



Germany, 277. 



Germicide, 254. 



Gila River, 29. 



Gilia, 330. 



Girasole, 294. 



Girdling, 82, 83. 



Gizzard, 356. 



Glacier, 19*. 



Glauber's salt, 58, 133, 137. 



Gluten, 273. 



Goat, 390, 391*. 



Godetia, 330. 



