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INDEX 



Page 



Land, flat 144 



need of drainage 141 



peaty, clearing and cropping 



130, 132 



subduing the 117 



surfaces, development of 



present 34 



survey, plat of land should 



show 199 



tillage with more ease and 



better profits 151 



Lands, grass, clearing for 126 



plowing and fertilizing peaty 



soil 132 



sewers used to drain 2 



underdraining peaty soils. . . 228 



Lanes and roads 107 



Latent energy in plants and 



animals 21 



Laterals, field, locating 259 



Lawn 108 



Laws, irrigation 239, 242 



Laying tile drains, cost of 215 



tiles in the ditch 206 



Legislation, drainage 153 



irrigation 239 



road 280 



Leveling instruments 160 



use of in planning drain. ... 186 

 Levels, how to use measurement 



of 191 



Light, sandy, gravelly or chalky 



soils 64 



Line of the ditch, surveying the . . 184 



Literature, good roads 353 



Locating field laterals 259 



Location, farmstead 101 



Log drag 344 



Lumbermen's ice roads 349 



Macadam road, unit cost of object 



lesson 293 



crushed rock for 330 



placing the layers of 334 



repairing 3 15 



selection of material ; for . . 332 



Macadam stone roads 330 



Machine, reversible road. . . .219, 314 



Machinery, ditching 212 



drainage 165 



farm, for removing stones. . . 129 



Machinery for elevating water. . . 247 



Manuring peaty soils 134 



Markets, proximity of farm to. . . 91 

 Materials, road, for the grade, and 



placing 320 



surface, mixing 325 



Mathematics as related to agri- 

 culture 26 



Measurement of levels, how to use 191 



Measuring weir 254 



cost of constructing 256 



Mechanical, appliances and sur- 

 veying 156, 245, 286 



classification of soils 63 



Mechanics as related to agricul- 

 ture 26 



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Medium, soils 65 



textured soils 264 



Meteorology, remarks 28 



Mileage of roads in United States 284 



Miners' inch 257 



"Minus sight" or "fore sight," 



explanation 191 



Mixing surface materials 325 



Model plan of irrigated farm. . . . 250 



Modern road building 272 



Moorlands, soil formation on. ... 56 



Morainic hills, the formation of . . 39 



Mulch, dirt, and dust blanket. . . 85 



Natural history 33 



Neighborhood, character of 91 



Notebook, drainage 162 



Object lesson macadam road, unit 



cost of 293 



Obstructions, open drains should 



be kept free from 231 



Open drains 216 



should be kept free from 



obstructions 231 



Orchard 108 



Organization, farm business 96 



Origin of the great prairies 41 



Ornamental fences 367 



Outlets, drainage 213 



Paddock fences 364 



Paddocks and barnyards 107 



Pasturing, solidifying by 131 



Paths, bicycle 347 



Peat, burning the surface 131 



Peaty lands, clearing of trees, etc. 130 



growing crops on 132 



plowing and pulverizing. ... 132 



underdraining 228 



Peaty soils 65 



manuring 134 



Physics as related to agriculture 26 



Physics, road 303 



Pike districts 283 



Pioneer roads, locating 286 



Plan for surface drains 181 



Planning, farm .. 96 



Plans, farm, general foundation. 96 

 Plant compounds are storage 



batteries 19 



Plants, air movement in 69 



development from lower 



forms 32 



latent energy in 21 



Plants, and the soil water 71 



animals depend on 70 



elements required for use of . 62 



relation of air to soil and ... 67 



substances used by 62 



Plat, land, should show the gen- 

 eral land survey 199 



Plats, drainage 162 



Plow, ditchers 216 



for ditching 220 



Plowing, and subsoiling 71 



breaking prairie sod 134 



peaty land 132 



Plowing peaty lands .'32 



