XXVI 



THE ESSENTIALS OF AGRICULTURE 



Bees, 302 



Beets, 231, 234 



Begonias, 40 



Bergen and Caldwell, 34, 138 



Better plants and animals. See Plants 



and animals 



Bible, the, 372 ; quoted, 300, 320 

 Birches, 280-281 



Birds as insect destroyers, 310-311 

 Bitter rot of apples, 292 

 Black knot of plums and cherries, 290 

 Black rot of apples, 290 

 Blue grass, 38, 328, 405 

 Blueberries, 63 

 Boll weevil, 186 

 Bollworm, 186 

 Bone meal, 104, 328 

 Bookkeeping on the farm, 442-446 

 Bordeaux mixture, 292, 316-317 

 Braconids, 309 

 Bran, 328, 341, 345, 366, 367, 393, 402, 



429 



Bread molds, 289, 299 



Briggs and Shantz, 34 



British India, sugar cane in, 237 



Brooding, 431-432 



Broom corn, 223-225 



Brown, E., 434 



Brown, William C., quoted, 49 



Brown plum lice, 315 



Brown rot of peaches and plums, 

 289, 292 



BrownSwissBreeders'Association,37i 



Budding, 44 



Bull, Ephraim, 10 



Bumblebees, 209, 210 



Burbank, Luther, 10 



Burkett, C. W., 71, 81, 114, 176 



Bursley, J. A., 455 



Bushel, legal weights of (Appendix K), 

 xvii 



Business aspects of farming, 436 ff. 



Business side of maintaining soil fer- 

 tility, the, 1 20 



Butter fat, 372, 375 



Buttermilk, 404 



Cabbage, 9, 25, 38, 53, 427 



Calcium, 25, 77, no, 327 



California, wheat in, 160; barley in, 



171; hemp in, 188; alfalfa in, 210; 



vetch in, 220 ; sorghums in, 227 ; 



sugar beets in, 237 ; orchards in, 264 

 Canada, oats in, 169; forests in, 279 

 Canada peas, 365 



Candolle, Alphonse de, 8 



Canker worm, 314 



Cannas, 37, 41 



Carbohydrates, 31, 325, 327, 340 



Carbon, 25, 31, 33 



Carbonic acid, 75, 104 



Card, F. W., 277 



Carrots, 231 



Casein, 372, 373 



Caterpillar, the, 186, 302 



Cato, quoted, 381, 436 



Cattle, 16, 17, 20. See Dairy cattle; 

 see also Feeding animals 



Cauliflower, 38 



Cedars, 281 



Celery, 38, 53 



Central America, corn in, 137 



Central states, planting corn in, 1 50 



Charcoal, 425, 427, 429 



Chase, L. W., 455 



Cheese, 373 



Cherries, 44, 263$'., 281 ; black knot 

 of, 290 



Chestnut, the, 280-281 



Chestnut-bark disease, the, 296 



Chickens. See Poultry 



Chile, alfalfa in, 210 



China, corn in, 134; rice in, 173; 

 sorghums in, 223; millet in, 229; 

 apples in, 262 ; peaches in, 262 



Chinch bugs, 302, 303-304 



Chinese as farmers, 84, 101 



Chlorophyll, 18, 31 



Clay, Henry, 383 



Climate as modified by forests, 282 



Clover, 25, 37, 38, 62, 74, 86, 104, 1 1 1, 

 1 1 6, 118, 119, 125, 192, 204 J/'., 218, 

 287-288, 328, 341, 345, 346, 393, 

 401, 427 ; food used by, 73; in ro- 

 tation, 86 



Clover hay, 93 



Coburn, F. D., 222, 408 



Codling moth, the, 305-306, 314 



Coffee, 266 



Coffee bean, the, 37 



Coleus, 41, 47 



Colorado, alfalfa in, 210; sugar beets 

 in, 237 ; wheat in, 160 



Colorado potato beetle, the, 313-314 



Columbus, Christopher, 134 



Columella, quoted, 23, 101, 210 



Commercial fertilizers, 120 



Computing fertilizer values, 108-109 



Comstock, J. II., 312 



Copper sprays, 31^6-317 



