ILLUSTRATIONS xiii 



FIGUKE PAGE 



94. Grapevine, six-arm renewal system, impruned 183 



95. Grapevine; six-arm renewal system, pruned 183 



96. Different systems of training 184 



97. Vine pruned, high renewal system 184 



98. Vine unpruned, high renewal system 185 



99. Downy mildew on grape leaf 186 



100. Making Bordeaux mixture 188 



101. Diagram of a hot bed 199 



102. Drag marker 201 



103. Preparation of fiat for seedage 202 



104. Sowing seed in flat 202 



105. Covering seed in flat 202 



106. Pressing soil over seed 202 



107. Transplanting lettuce 203 



108. Position of fingers in transplanting 203 



109. Flat of Jersey Wakefield cabbage 203 



110. Flat full of thrifty lettuce 203 



111. Thrifty lettuce plants 203 



112. Varieties of lettuce for warm and cool weather 204 



113. Cucumbers started in strawberry baskets 204 



114. Wrong way to push a seeder or hand cultivator 208 



115. Right way to push a seeder or hand cultivator 209 



116. Preparing beets for storage 211 



117. Celery plants for storage 211 



118. Diagram of a vegetable pit 212 



119. Cross section of a concrete storage cellar 213 



120. Floor plan of a storage room 213 



121. Ventilation of a storage room 214 



122. Squash borer at work 214 



123. Army worm 215 



124. Plant lice 216 



125. Cabbage butterfly and worm 216 



126. Natural enemy of the tomato worm 216 



127. Corn worm 219 



128. Corn smut 219 



129. Rectangular body deep in the rear (chicken) 225 



130. A vigorous, active hen 225 



131. A poor capacity bird and early moulter 226 



132. A good capacity cockerel 227 



133. A good capacity bird 228 



134. Laying house 235 



135. Colony house 236 



136. Automatic lighting switch 237 



137. Louse, red mite 240 



138. Position of knife to cut veins 242 



139. Knife piercing brain in stunning 243 



140. Thoroughbred horse 248 



141. Standard breed of driving horse 250 



142. Hackney 251 



