Index 



485 



Marine soils, 33. 



Market classes and grades of beef 

 cattle, 344. 



classes and grades of horses and 

 mules, 315. 



gardening, 278. 



Marketing of farm products, 466. 

 May beetle, pest of corn, 122. 

 Meadow-fescue, 172. 

 Middle-wool sheep, 392. 

 Milk, composition of, 375. 



for calves, 360. 



for fat, testing of, 377. 

 Millets as forage, 173. 

 Milo sorghum, 178. 

 Mineral matter, for hogs, 420. 



of soil, 31. 



Miscible oils as insecticides, 246. 

 Monoecious plants, 11. 

 Montgomery, E. G., quoted, 163. 

 Mowers, 164, 456. 

 Mulches, artificial, 43. 



kinds of, 43. 



natural, 43. 



Mumford, H. W., quoted, 344. 

 Muriate of potash, 86. 

 Mustard in wheat fields, 142. 

 Mutton and lamb, cuts of, 405. 



N 



Natural brooding, 435. 



incubation, 432. 



propagation in fruit plants, 17. 

 Nitrate of soda, 82. 

 Nitrification in soil, 49. 

 Nitrogen, effects of, 87. 



-free extract, 8. 



need of, in soil, 56. 

 Nitrogenous fertilizers, 82. 

 Node, definition of, 10. 

 Non-saccharine sorghum, 177. 

 Nursery stock, purchasing of, 255. 



trees, trimming of, 257. 

 Nutrients, digestible, in feeds, 29& 



O 



Oats, characteristics of, 147. 

 enemies of, 150. 

 harvesting of, 150. 

 kinds of, 148. 

 planting of, 149. 



Oats Continued. 



side, 148. 



soils and climate for, 149. 



spreading, 148. 



spring, 148. 



winter, 148. 



Obrecht, R. C., quoted, 316. 

 One-horse cultivators, 452. 

 Open-ditch drainage, 47. 

 Orange sorghums, 176. 

 Orchard-grass, 171. 

 Organic matter of soil, 31. 

 Osmosis in plants, 9. 

 Ovary of flower, 11. 

 Overhead irrigation, 44. 

 Ovules of flower, 11. 

 Oxford sheep, 396. 



Papilionaceffl sub-family of plants, 



182. 



Paris green as an insecticide, 246. 

 Pasteurization of milk, 385. 

 Pasture, grasses for, 168. 

 Peanuts, culture of, 194. 

 Percheron horses, 303. 

 Percolation, reducing losses of water 



due to, 42. 



Perennial vegetable crops, 279. 

 Pests, of corn, 120. 



cotton, 230. 



fruit plants, 261. 



oats, 150. 



rye, 152. 



sugar-cane, 222. 



sweet potatoes, 213. 



wheat, 143. 



white potatoes, 205. 

 Petals of flower, 11. 

 Phosphate, from iron furnaces, 86. 



rocks, 85. 



fertilizers, 84. 

 Phosphorus, effects of, 87. 



need of, in soil, 56. 

 Photosynthesis, definition of, 10. 

 Pistillate flowers, 11. 

 Plant-food, leaching of, 58, 59. 



effect of lime on, 94. 



in soil, 31, 56. 

 Plant-lice, on fruit-trees, 266. 



study, 5. 



