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THE ESSENTIALS OF AGRICULTURE 



Horses, 330 ff., 16; manure of, 93; 

 silage for, 259; importance of, 

 330; history of, 330-331 ; Arabian, 

 331-332; Thoroughbred, 332-333 ; 

 Standard Bred, 333-334; American 

 Saddle, 334 ; Morgan, 334 ; Perche- 

 ron, 334-3355 Belgian, 335-336; 

 English Shire, 336-337 ; Clydesdale, 

 337 ; ponies, 337 ; labor of, 441. See 

 also Feeding animals 



Horses and mules, 330 ff.\ feeding, 

 339-346 ; watering, 346-34? > mar- 

 ket classes of, 348-349 



Hume, H. Harold, 277 



Humus, 52 



Hunt, Thomas F., 71, 155, 176, 

 230 



Ichneumon flies, 308-309 



Idaho, alfalfa in, 210 



Illinois, corn in, 135, 140; wheat in, 

 160; oats in, 169 



Illinois Experiment Station, 86, 115 



Importance of legumes, 87 



Incubating and incubators, 430-431 



India, rice in, 173; cotton in, 178; 

 sorghums in, 223 ; millet in, 229 



Indian corn. See Corn 



Indiana, corn in, 135, 140; wheat in, 

 160; pastures in, 198; tobacco in, 

 245 



Indo-China, oranges in, 262 



Ingalls, John James, quoted, 192 



Inoculation for legumes, 205-206 



Inoculation of soil, 78-79 



Insect pests, 423-424 



Insecticides, 313 ff- 



Insects, 1 86 



Insects on the farm, 300 ff. ; impor- 

 tance of, 300-301 ; structure and 

 ways of feeding, 301 ; changes in 

 form of, 302 ; chinch bug, 304-305 ; 

 codling moth, 305-306; cotton-boll 

 weevil, 306-308 ; helpful insects, 

 308-309; preventing and controlling 

 insect injuries, 309-311 



Intensive agriculture, 6 



Invention as aid to agriculture, 2-4 



Iowa, corn in, 135, 140, 142, 149; 

 wheat in, 160; oats in, 169 



Ireland, farming in, 442 



Irrigation, i2<f.ff.\ object of, 124-125; 

 how water is applied, 125-126 



Italy, alfalfa in, 210; consumption of 

 sugar in, 236 



Japan, wheat in, 5, 167 ; farm in- 

 comes in, 6 ; irrigation in, 127 ; rice 

 in, 173 ; millet in, 229 

 Japan clover, 217, 405 

 Java, sugar cane in, 237 

 Jersey, dairying in, 353, 355 

 Jesuits, the, introducers of cane sugar, 



237 



Johnston, J. II. S., 352 

 Jordan, W. H., 329 

 Judging beef cattle, 386-391 

 Judging dairy cattle, 361-364 

 Judging horses, 347, 350-351 



Kafir, 223, 225-226, 327, 366, 393, 

 402, 427 



Kainite, 105 



Kansas, corn in, 135, 140, 149; alfalfa 

 in, 210; sorghums in, 227; mules 

 produced in, 338 



Kansas State Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, 162, 403 



Kaoliang, 226 



Kellogg, V. L., 312 



Kentucky, wheat in, 160; hemp in, 

 188; pastures in, 193; mules pro- 

 duced in, 338 ; swine in, 400 ; to- 

 bacco in, 244, 245, 246 



Kentucky Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, 206 



Kerosene, 316, 424 



King, F. H., 57, 71, Si, 85, 371 



Kleinheinz, Frank, 417 



Korea, millet in, 229 



Labor on the farm, distribution of, 

 440-441 



Lactic acid, 374, 377 



Lane, C. B., 371 



Lard type of hog, 395-396. 



Lawes, John Bennet, 53 



Layers, 39-40, 46 



Leaf curl of peaches, 292 



Legume hay, 326, 345 



Legumes, 25, 63, 77, 79, 86, 88-89, 

 in, 118-119, 196, 204 ff. (see <i/.u> 

 Red clover, Alfalfa, Sweet clover, 

 Japan clover, Cowpeas, Soy beans, 

 and Vetches) ; use in maintaining 

 fertility, 87; importance of, 204; 

 legumes and nitrogen, 205 ; inocu- 

 lation for, 205-206 



Lettuce, 28, 316 



Lewis, H. R., 434 



Liebig, Justus von, 3-4 



