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INDEX 



Lime soils, crops for, 63. 

 Linseed meal, composition of, 322. 

 Live-stock, advantages of, 282; im 



provement of, 281. 

 Loam, 59. 



Locust tree, 10, 212. 

 Louisiana Experiment Station, 156, 157 



i59, *6i. 



Machinery, farm, 333. 



Making butter, 326. 



Malaria and mosquitoes, 273. 



Mallow family, 145. 



Manure, effect of food on, 92. 



Marigolds, 196. 



Merino sheep, 302. 



Milk vessels, cleaning, 324 . 



Milk, composition of, 322; impurities 

 in, 324; keeping pure, 323; produc- 

 tion of, 323; souring of, 228; testing, 

 323- 



Millet, 178. 



Mills for sugar cane, 160. 



Minorca breed, 312. 



Mites, 247. 



Moisture, 23, 245. 



Molds, 225. 



Mosquitoes, 254; and yellow fever, 

 272; destroying, 275; malarial, 274. 



Mosses, 55. 



Moth, 252. 



Mulberry, 208. 



Mulch, 69. 



Mules, 289. 



Muriate of potash, 101, 106. 



Mustard flower, 7. 



Narcissus, 195. 



Nasturtium, 200. 



Nitrate-destroying germs, 245. 



Nitrate of soda, 99, 106. 



Nitrogen, 33, 98, 117, 168; fixation of, 



90; how used by legumes, 90. 

 Nitrogen-trapping germs, 244. 

 Nodules, 88, 89. 

 Nut grass, 182. 



Oak, 20, 208, 210. 



Oat hay, composition of, 322, 



Oat straw, composition of, 322. 

 Oats, ii, 23, 38, 119, 121, 136; culture 



of, 139; composition of, 322; smut 



of, 233. 



Oklahoma Experiment Station, 181. 

 Okra, 187. 

 Onions, 114, 190. 

 Orangeburg soils, 61. 

 Orchard, 19, 215. 

 Orchard grass, 178. 

 Orpington breed, 313. 

 Osage orange tree, 212. 

 Ovule, 8. 

 Ovule case, 7. 

 xygen, 34, 57- 



Pansies, 199, 200. 

 Pastures, 179, 331. 

 Pea, 10, 25, 188. 

 Peach, 8, 39, 215, 223, 224. 

 Peach borer, 259. 

 Peaches, diseases of, 229. 

 Peach tree, 216, 221, 223, 224. 

 Peanut meal, composition of, 322, 

 Peanuts, 23, 114, 165. 

 Pear blight, 231. 

 Pears, 17, 215. 

 Pecans, 20, 216. 

 Percheron horses, 286. 

 ^erennials, 38. 

 'erfume, uses of, 7. 

 'eriwinkles, 195. 

 'ersimmons, Japanese, 215. 

 'etals, 8. 

 'etunias, 200. 

 'hlox, 199. 



'hosphate, 32, 57, I0 o. 

 'hosphate, acid, 100, 106. 

 3 hosphoric acid, 100. 

 ^hosphorus, 33, 100. 

 Distil, 7, 9, 12, 19. 

 3 lank drag, 71. 

 5 lants, food for, 32. 

 'lowing, depth of, 72; time of, 70. 

 'lurns, 10, 215. 

 'oisons for fungi, 227. 

 'oland-China hogs, 304. 

 'ollen, 7, 13, 18. 

 ^llination, 12, 16. 

 omegranates, 216. 



