INDEX 



Apple, cover crops, 143; culture, 142; 

 fertilizer, 143; fillers, 142; har- 

 vesting, 144; location, 140; 

 planting, 141, 142; pruning, 142, 

 143; renovating, 144; soil, 140; 

 sprays, 149; storage, 144; trees, 

 141; thinning, 143, 144;' varie- 

 ties, 141; winter protection, 144. 



Bees, behavior, 3S9, 300; diseases, 392, 

 393; equipment, 389; honey 

 flow, 391, 392; location, 3SS, 

 389; race, 392; value, 393, 394; 

 what the beekeeper does, 390. 



Blackberry, cultivation, 167; fertilizing, 

 167; location, 167; planting, 

 167; soil, 167; training, 168; 

 winter protection, 168, 169. 



Buildings, location and arrangement, 

 barns, 406; carpenter shop, 

 407; closets, 407; esthetic sug- 

 gestions, 403; garage, 408. 



Barley, classification, 75, 76; cultural 

 methods, 76; desirable quali- 

 ties, 76 ; harvesting, 76, 77 ; 

 range, 75, 76; seeding, 76; uses, 

 77. 



Cherries, diseases, 155; distance of plant- 

 ing, 154; fertilizers, 154; gen- 

 eral culture, 155; insects, 155; 

 other enemies, 155; pruning, 

 154, 155. 



Chickens, breed, 223 ; breeding, 223, 224 ; 

 breeding hen, 224; breeding 

 male, 224; breeding stock, 233, 

 234; culling, 228; farm flocks. 

 223; pure bred stock, 224; 

 "seed plot" breeding place, 224- 

 227; trap nests, 227, 228. 



— diseases, 238; biunblefoot, 238; can- 

 ker, 238 ; catarrh and colds, 238 ; 

 chicken-pox, 238; constipation, 

 238; cholera, 238; diarrhoea, 

 238; dysentery, 238; egg-bound, 

 238; favus, 238; feather-eating. 

 239; frozen head, 239; leg weak- 

 ness. 239; limberneck.239; liver 

 trouble, 239; roup, 239; scaling 

 leg, 239; tuberculosis, 239, 240. 



— feeding, 229; chicks, 231; grain and 



mash, 230, 231 ; laying hen, 229; 

 laying ration, 229, 230; mash, 

 230; scratch grain, 230. 



— housing, 234; artificial lights, 236. 237; 



colony house, 236; equipment, 

 235,236; laying house, 2.34,2.35. 



— incubation, 241; good incubation, 241 ; 



incubator pointers, 241. 



— keeping eggs, 242, 243; picking poul- 



try, 243. 



— pointers, brooding, 241; fattening for 



market, 233; hover tempera- 

 ture, 241; stove, 241. 



— sanitation, 237 ;cleanliness,237; home- 



made disinfectant, 237, 238. 



— troubles, 240; bacillary white diar- 



rhoea, 240; coccidiosis, 240; 

 diarrhoea, 240; gapes, 240; pre- 

 vention, 238. 



— vermin, 240; lice, 240; mites, 240, 241. 



Concrete, examples of, 427, 428; mate- 

 rial, 424; tools, 424-426; prac- 

 tical hints, 428, 429. 



Corn, adaptation to climate, 48; classifi- 

 cation, 47; climate and produc- 

 tion, 48. 



— cultural methods, 57; cultivation, 59, 



60; diseases and insects, 62; 

 harvesting, 60, 61; planting, 58, 

 59; preparation of seed bed, 57, 

 58. 



— improvement, 51 ; barnyard manure, 



56; introduction of varieties, 

 51-53; limes, 57; mineral fer- 

 tilizers, 56, 57; pedigree selec- 

 tion, 53; rotations, 54, 55; seed 

 storage, 53. 



— relation of soil and production, 48; 



production in U. S., 46; world's 

 corn crop, 46; varieties, 49-51. 

 Cotton, climatic requirements. 135, 136; 

 cultivation, 138; diseases. 138; 

 enemies, 137, 138; fertilizers, 

 138; insects, 138; seedage, 136, 

 137; soil requirements, 135; 

 two classes, 135. 



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