INDEX 



Aberdeen-Angus cattle, 340. 



Accounts, farm, 465. 



Acid soils, 36. 



Acidity of soil corrected by lime, 93. 



soil, testing for, 97. 

 Acme harrows, 451. 

 Adventitious buds, 12. 

 ^Eolian soils, 34. 

 Aerobic bacteria in manure, 72. 

 Age of horses, determining, 324. 

 Agriculture, divisions of, 3. 

 Air drainage in fruit culture, 243. 



in soil, 31, 48, 53. 

 Alfalfa as forage, 187. 



experiments with, 198. 

 Alluvial soils, 33. 

 Amber sorghum, 176. 

 American potash, 86. 

 Merino sheep, 400. 

 saddle horses, 312. 

 Ammoniacal copper carbonate as a 



fungicide, 247. 



Anaerobic bacteria in manure, 72. 

 Animal manure, 67. 

 matter in soil, 31. 

 Anthers of a blossom, 11. 

 Apple-scab, 297. 



tree tent-caterpillar, 265. 

 Arabian horses, 313. 

 Arithmetic of fertilizers, 89", 92. 

 Army- worm in corn, 124. 

 Arsenate of lead as an insecticide, 246 

 Arsenite of lime as an insecticide, 246 

 Art, agriculture as an, 2. 

 Artificial brooding, 438. 



incubation, 437. 

 Ash in plants, 7. 

 Ayrshire cattle, 258. 



B 



Babcock milk test, 377. 

 Bacon-type swine, 412. 



Bacteria in milk, 382. 



in soil, 31, 49. 



work of, in manure, 72. 

 Bailey, L. H., quoted, 256, 279. 

 Balanced rations, 289. 

 Bark of plants, 8. 

 Barley, characteristics of, 153. 



enemies of, 155. 



harvesting of, 154. 



pests, 155. 



planting of, 154. 



soils and climate for, 154. 



uses of, 153. 

 Barnyard, covered, use of a, 76. 



manure, 67. 

 Basic slag, 86. 

 Beef animals, conformation of, 337. 



cattle, breeds of, 337. 



cuts of, 350. 

 Beggarweed as green manure, 66. 

 Benefits of crop rotation, 59. 

 Berkshire swine, 409. 

 Bermuda-grass as forage, 172. 

 Bitter-rot of fruit, 269. 

 Black-rot of sweet potato, 213. 

 Blade in grass, 162. 



harrows, 451. 



Blights of white potatoes, 206. 

 Boll-weevil, 230. 



-worm, 232. 



Bone-meals as fertilizer, 84. 

 Bordeaux mixture as a fungicide, 247. 

 Borers, fruit-tree, 268. 

 Breaking and training colts, 317. 

 Breeds of beef cattle, 337. 



of dairy cattle, 354. 

 of chickens, 426. 

 of horses, 303. 

 of sheep, 392. 

 of swine, 409. 

 Brooding, artificial, 438. 



natural, 435. 

 Broom corn, 174. 

 Brome-grass as forage, 172. 



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