INDEX 



E 



Early experience, danger of, 30 

 Earth, genesis of surface, 173 

 Earth worms, role in soil 



building, 183 

 Education, better for fanner's 



children, 146 

 Electricity, amount available, 



161 



farm use in America, 166 

 use in England and Aus- 

 tralia, 164, 165 

 uses on the farm, 163 

 Employer, duty of, 66 

 Endowment, danger of too 



great, 312, 313 

 Entomology, contributions to 



agriculture, 301 

 Erosion, factors determining, 



221 



Everglades, Florida, 19 

 Expensive farming, 29 



Factories, move to the coun- 

 try, 150 



Falling water level, 241 

 Farm, a continued joy, 32 

 Fdrm animals, comparison of 



numbers, 270 



Farm animals, number, 269 

 Farm animals, number and 



value, 334, 335 

 value, 337 



Farm credits, proposed legis- 

 lation, 126 

 Farm Finance, 119 

 Farm, health on the, 53 

 Farm labor, poorly paid, 81 

 Farm laborer, few recreations, 



77 



Farm life, attractive, 149 

 conditions, 3 

 social opportunities, 150 



Farm losses, compensation, 



171 



insurance, 172 



Farm machinery, effect of, 146 

 Farm property, value, 138 

 Farmer, an American citizen, 



88 



chances of the old time, 31 

 exploited politically, 86 

 exposure of, 56 

 helpless in the market, 93 

 Farmer, long life in the future, 



58 

 neglect and indifference in 



regard to soils, 217 

 of the future, 90 

 place in the social scale, 86 

 Farmer Johnson, impressions 



of the "Institoot," 15 

 Farmer's accounts, not kept, 



115 

 Farmer's boy, appeal to the 



city, 4 



Farmers' institutes, 14 

 Farmer's markets, 92 

 Farmer's profits, often illusory, 



115 

 Farmer's sons, keeping at 



home, 6 



Farmers' Union, 89 

 Farming a business, 11 

 Farming at a plump age, 33 

 Farming, making profitable, 



152 



visions of the future, 84 

 Feeding, economical, 36 

 "Feel in the air," 31 

 Ferment, nitrifying, 185 

 Fertility, what is it? 226 

 Fertilizers, sources of, 350 

 Field, not fed from its own re- 

 sources, 33 



Fish as fertilizer, 357 

 Florida, vegetable soils, 199 

 Food products, animal, 271 



