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INDEX 



Bookkeeping on the farm, 116 



Boomers and Boomees, 18 



Born-on-the-farm, 28 



Borrowed money, restriction 

 on use, 142, 143 



Botany, contributions to agri- 

 culture, 297 



Brains, necessary in farming, 

 34 



Buchanan, James, 171 



Buchanan, vetoes Land Grant 

 Bill, 308 



Bull calf, sell or keep, 255 



Bureau of soils, 204 

 fertility, 229 

 various theories, 232 



Business methods, 114 



Butter, quantity, 272 



selling by parcel post, 101 



Cattle, losses, 169 

 Cereals, yield, 331 

 Cheap steel, great civilizer, 



276 

 Checkbook useful for keeping 



accounts, 117 

 Chemistry, contributions to 



agriculture, 282 

 Children, nourishment of farm, 



59 



Cities, rivalry, 151 

 City man when should he go 



to the country? 4 

 Civic center, 83 

 Classification, social, 87 

 Clover, early recognition of, 



235 



Commercialism, spirit of, 155 

 Commission on farm credits, 



126, 127, 128 

 conclusions, 139, 140, 141 

 Conservation of plant food, 



351 

 Contract, regard for, 66 



Cooperative borrowing, 122 

 Corn, increased yield, 343 

 Country life, hard conditions, 



5 

 Country, more attractive than 



the city, 91 

 Cradle, revolutionized the 



wheat industry, 33 

 Cream, selling by parcel post, 



101 

 Crops, improvement in quality, 



346 

 variety, 205 



D 



Dairy, better than the orchard, 



39 



Dairy cow, breeds, 35 

 infected, 37 

 number, 270, 271, 336 

 per cent, tuberculosis, 273 

 price, 272 

 Dairy, the hope of the small 



farmer, 35 

 Dairying, success, 40 

 Darius Green, 163 

 Death rates, in cities and rural 



districts, 55 

 Debt, beneficial? 121 

 Department of Agriculture, 



growth, 313 

 Department officials, interested 



in Everglades, 20 

 Diet, importance of orchard 



products, 49 



Diet in the farmer's home, 57 

 Diseases, peculiar to farm life, 



54 



Doctor, a country, 59 

 Drunkenness, a curse to farm 



labor, 69 



Dry farming, 237 

 difficulties, 240 

 first official experiment, 238 

 Dry farming in the East, 241 



