xviii List of Illustrations 



FIG. PAGK 



31. Flint corn . 101 



32. White rice pop-corn ........ 102 



33. Sweet corn 102 



34. Seed corn strung with binder twine ..... 106 



35. Seed corn on racks made from wire fencing . . . 107 



36. Seed corn tested in the sawdust box tester . . . 108 



37. Kernels of seed corn sprouted in the sawdust box tester . 109 



38. The rag-doll seed corn tester 110 



39. A two-row corn-planter arranged with wire to drop kernels 



into hills 115 



40. A corn-cultivator equipped with small shovels . . .116 



41. A corn-binder with bundle elevator . . . . .117 



42. Husking corn from the shock . . . . . .118 



43. Filling the silo 119 



44. Corn-smut . . . 124 



45. Heads of beardless winter wheat 133 



46. Heads of bearded winter wheat ..... 134 



47. Heads of German emmer, spelt, and einkorn . . . 135 



48. Grain-drill 136 



49. Grain-binders in a wheat field ...... 137 



50. A field of wheat in shock 138 



51. Self -rake reaper 139 



52. A threshing scene 141 



53. Loose smut of wheat 144 



54. Stinking smut of wheat ....... 145 



55. Spreading oats and side oats 148 



56. Mowers in a hayfield . . . . . . .165 



57. A hay field 166 



58. Loading hay by hand 166 



59. Loading hay with a hay loader . . . . . .167 



60. A sweep-rake bringing the hay to the stacker . . . 167 



61. Stacking hay 168 



62. Timothy .169 



63. Kentucky blue-grass 169 



64. Canada blue-grass 170 



65. Redtop .... .170 



66. Orchard grass . .171 



67. Italian rye-grass . . . . . . . 171 



68. Meadow-fescue 172 



69. Tall oat-grass 



70. Brome-grass _ 173 



