318 INDEX. 



Dry seasons, 273. 



Dust blanket explained, 247. 



Economy in seed, 153. 



Essentially scientific farming, 290. 



Evaporation, XVI, 123; danger of, 141; loss at the surface, 126; greatest ,mc:.L 



of waste, 138. 

 Fall plowing old land, 51. 

 Feasting time, Colorado melons, 21. 

 Fertility of the soil, 99; elements of, 105. 

 Following harvester with disk, 39. 

 Free homes and greater crops, 27. 

 Germination, quick, 70; of wheat, 194. 

 Getting most out of the farm, XXX, 251. 

 Good farming and good morals. XL, 293. 

 Grain, kinds of drills, 181; stooling of, 180, 266; scientific condition for, 268; winter 



killing of, 263. 



Growing potatoes, XXII, 197. 

 Hansen, Prof. N. C., on new plants, 232. 

 Harvesting wheat fifty years ago, 188. 

 Harvest, after, 189. 

 Harvester, following with disk, 39. 

 Harrowing, time of, 187; spring wheat, 186. 

 .History of the movement, XLIV, 305. 



Hopkins, Prof. Cyril G., on soils, 101; on fair investigation, 295. 

 How to use the Manual, II, 15. 

 Humid regions, drawbacks, 133. 

 Ideal farmer, the, III, 19. 

 Ideal farming country, 135. 

 Increase of products under soil culture, 259. 

 Inevitable dry seasons, XXXV, 273. 

 Introduction, I, 5. 

 Irrigation, XXVII, 235. 

 Kansas experience, 259, 260. 

 Keeping mulch in condition, 146. 

 Kilpatrick ranch, 70; results, 159. 

 King, Prof. F. H., experiments in soils, 62, 126. 

 Live stock on the farm, 253. 

 Listing, wheat, 183; corn, 158. 

 Look into the future, VI, 32. 



Manure, application, 149; permanent effects, 152; modern spreader, 151- 

 Moisture, saving of, 141; watching it, 161. 

 Montana wheat without irrigation, 12, 34. 

 Morals and good farming, 293. 



Morton, J. Sterling, portrait, 242; on Campbell's work, 246. 

 Mulch, keeping in condition, 146. 

 Nitrogen as plant food, 112. 

 North Platte station, 79. 

 Over-production, 283. 

 Percolation, or getting water down into the sub-soil, XV, 117; capillary attraction 



illustrated, 118; how water stored in soil, 119. 



