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CHAPTER lY. 



FARM IMPLEMENTS. 

 Amount of Capital invested in them— Improvements — One Plow to a town — The Carey Plow 

 — Shovel Plow— Implements for preparing the Land— Tree Sawing Machines — Stump 

 Pullers and Stone Lifters — Drainage and Draining Implements — Plows and Plowing — 

 Draright— The Doe Plow— Its general application — Deep Tiller Plows — Telegraph Plow- 

 Cylinder Plow— Mead's Conical Plow— Sod, Stubble, and Side Hill Plows— Steel Plows-- 

 Their advantages— Collins Plow— The Subsoil Plow — Its great usefulness — Other Plows 

 — Dr. Grant's New Trenching Plows — Plows for the Prairie Farmer — Skinner's Gang 

 Plow — Steam Plow — Comstock's Spader — Harrows — Geddes' Harrow — The Hinge Har- 

 row — Share's Harrow— Horse Hoes-Cultivators— Sulky Cultivator — Clod Crusher— 

 Rollers— Cooper's Lime Spreader— Drills — The advantages of Drilling in most Crops — 

 The Star Drill — Seed Sowers — Weeding Hoes — Allen's "Weed Killer" — Implements for 

 Harvesting— The rapid march of improvements — Number of Mowing Machines manu- 

 factured — Their progress towards perfection — The Buckeye — Woods — Other Mowers — 

 The Hay Tedder — Its remarkable sncces.s — Horse Rakes — Forks — Horse Forks — Reaper 

 Trials — Self Rake Reapers — Autumatic Binders — Combined Mowers and Reapers — Pre- 

 servation and care of Implements — Valuable directions — Threshing Machines — Corn 

 Shellers— Hay Fodder and Root Cutters— Cider and Grape Mills 70 152 



CHAPTER y. 



GRAINS. 

 Wheat CuLTURte. Its importance — The corner stone of Wheat Culture — Drainage — Soils — 

 Clay — Limestone — Sandy Soils — Mistake in Prairie Farming — Manures required — Clover 

 Fallows — Cost of Manuring with Clover — Its value — Lime, Ashes, Salt, etc., — Relative 

 value of each to the Wheat Crop — Fattening the Soil — Thorough Pulverization — Sheep 

 vs. Cattle — Preparing the Soil for Wheat — Deep Cultivation — Mellowing the Soil— Sow- 

 ing — Early and Late Sowing — The Depth — Amount of Seed to the acre — Drilling in the 

 Seed — Can be done earlier — Less Seed required — Uniformity secured — Other advantages 

 — Harrowing Wheat in the Spring — Chess, Grass, and Weeds — Time to Harvest Wheat — 

 Signs of Ripening — Reaping — Cradling — Raking — Binding — Stacking — Grain Caps- 

 Spring Wheat — Special directions — Selection of Seed Wheat — Carelessness in selecting 

 Seed the great bane of Agriculture — Qualities of Good Wheat — Varieties of Wheat — Their 

 Qualities described — If not properly selected and carefully cultivated the best Wheal 

 will degenerate — Smut — Rust — Mildew — Ergot — Insects. Rtk. Soils — Preparation — 

 Manures — Sowing — Harvesting — Selectioa of Seed. Barlet, Buckwheat, Oats. Varieties 

 — Soils be.st adapted to their Culture — Their place in the rotation of Crops — Manures to 

 be applied — Preparation of the Soil — Harvesting, etc., etc. Indian Corn. The Staple 

 Crop — Cotton no longer King — Soil — Autumn Plowing — Manures — Lime — Salt — Guano — 

 Ashes — Bones, etc. — Preparing the Seed — Time to Plant — Corn Planters or Drills — Culti- 

 vation — Southern and Western Method.s — How can they be improved — Corn for Fodder — 

 Topping condemned — Harvesting — Huskings-^Raising, selecting and preserving Seed 

 Corn — Varieties — Broom Corn — Legal Weights of Grains, Roots and Seeds in different 

 States — Number of Seeds to the pound of different Grains and Grasses 153-1S2 



CHAPTER yi. 



GRASSES. 

 Purposes for which Grass is cultivated — Hay — Pasture — Thirty Species of Agricultural value 

 — Varieties of Grass described — Their relative value — Red Clover — Time fbr Seeding Clover 

 — Quantity of Seed per acre — Cutting and Curing — Early vs. Late Cutting — Curing in one 

 day — Cutting for Seed — Hay Caps — Clover as a Manure — Time to Sow Grass Seed — Early 

 Spring vs. Fall Sowing — Quantity of Seed per acre — Too small a variety of Seed usually 

 sown — Twenty varieties in natural sod — Mixtures recommended — Tables — Top dressing 

 Grass Lands — Seeding wet Prairie — Red Top vs. Slough Grass — Improvement of Pas- 

 ares — Selection of Grass Seed — Raise your own Seed IS.'^-lSo 



