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Index 



Durum wheat, 133. 

 Dutch Belted cattle, 359. 



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Early blight of white potatoes, 206. 



Ear-rot of corn, 125. 



Ear-worm, corn, 123. 



Eckles, C. H., quoted, 362. 



Egg production, feeding for, 438. 



Einkorn, 133. 



Elaboration of plant-food, 10. 



Element, definition of, 6. 



Embryo of seed, 13. 



Emmer, 113. 



Epidermis of plants, 8. 



Ergot in rye, 152. 



Ether-extract, definition of, 8. 



Evaporation losses in soil, 42. 



Farm accounts, 465. 



animals, feeding of, 287. 



choice of the, 462. 



equipment, kinds of, 463. 



-garden, 280. 



labor, 464. 



machinery, 443, 445. 



management, scope of, 461. 



manure, 67. 



possibilities, 4. 



products, marketing of, 466. 



records, 466. 



tenancy, 463. 



tractors, 458. 



Farming as an occupation, 462. 

 Fat in plants, 7. 

 Feeding beef cattle, 346. 



dairy cows, 362. 



farm animals, 287. 



horses, 321. 



importance of, 287. 



poultry, 438. 



sheep, 401. 



swine, 414. 

 Feed, cost of, 295. 



digestibility of, 295. 



effect on digestion, 295. 

 Feeds, function of, 288. 



kinds of, 290. 



palatability of, 294. 

 Fermentation in manure, 71. 

 Fertility, soil, 55. 



Fertilization in flowers, 11. 

 Fertilizer equivalents, 90. 

 Fertilizer laws, 88. 

 Fertilizers, arithmetic of, 89, 92. 



commercial, use of, 80. 



for corn, 112. 



for cotton, 226. 



for sugar-cane, 219. 



from atmosphere, 84. 



home-mixed, 90, 97. 



mixed, 88. 



nitrogenous, 82. 



phosphatic, 84. 



potassic, 86. 

 Fertilizing for sweet potatoes, 208. 



for white potatoes, 202. 

 Field peas as green-manure, 65. 



as forage, 193. 

 Fields, laying out the, 463. 

 Filament of flower, 11. 

 Fine-wool sheep, '339. 

 Fish-scrap as fertilizer, 83. 

 Flea-beetle on white potato, 206. 

 Flint corn, 101. 



Flooding system of irrigation, 46. 

 Flowers, function of, 10. 



parts of, 11. 

 Fodder pulling, 119. 

 Formation of soil, 32. 

 French Coach horses, 309. 

 Fruit-culture, air drainage in, 243. 



-growing, chapter on, 241. 



harvesting of, 260. 



plants, pests of, 261. 



soils for, 242. 



trees, planting of, 256. 



trees, pruning of, 243. 



trees, spraying of, 246. 

 Fruits, classification of, 242. 

 Fungi, propagation of, 12. 

 Fungicides for spraying, 246. 

 Fungous pests of barley, 155. 



corn, 124. 



cotton, 232. 



fruit, 269. 



oats, 150. 



rye, 152. 



sugar-cane, 222. 



sweet potato, 213. 



wheat, 143. 



white potato, 206. 

 Furrow irrigation, 46. 



