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INDEX, 



Fertile soil, what constitutes 100 



Fertility of soils 93 



Fertilizers, Special 83 



Flat-headed Borer 345 



Flax 201 



Culture of 202 



Flea-beetle, Striped 336 



Grape 336 



Flood-gates 50 



Fly, Hessian 326 



Fodder-corn 161, 158 



Food and manure 115 



Foods and Feeding 



Starch and Sugar, Component 



elements 1171 



Fat 1171 



Foods and their use 1172 



Different use of food constit- 

 uents 1172 



Different foods 1173 



Comparative value of. 1175 



Nutritive qualities 1176 



Digestibility 1176 



Albuminoid ratio 1178 



Water in foods 1180 



Purposes of feeding 1180 



Reducing food of support 1181 



Increasing food of support 1183 



Proper adjustment of. 1184 



Ratio of food for young animals. 1185 



Ratio of food for milk 1186 



Fattening animals 1 187 



Feeding influenced by age 1189 



Profitable feeding 1191 



Foods, Comparative value of. 1175 



Foods increasing manures 104 



Food of support, Reducing 1181 



Foot-scrapers 426 



Forests, Value of. 367 



Fountain-pump 343 



Fowl Meadow-grass 122 



French Draft-horse 480 



French Horse, Ohio investigates. 483 



Fruit-growing, Commercial 280 



Fruits on the farm 253 



Fruits, Small (berries) 272 



Fruit-trees, Selection of. 255 



GALLOWAY cattle 749 



Gardening and truck-farming 282 



Garden reel 429 



Gate hung with weight 418 



Gates on farm 51 



Lift-gate 51 



Hung on hinges 52 



Geese (see Poultry) 1110 



Gooseberry saw-fly 360 



Gooseberries 279 



Grapes 269 



Trellis for vines 269 



Wire trellis 270 



Varieties 27! 



Grass-crop of the country 118 



Grasses, Varieties of. 120 



Timothy 120 



Blue-grass 120 



Orchard grass 121 



Red-top 121 



Meadow Foxtail 122 



Fowl Meadow grass 122 



Rough-stalked Meadow grass... 122 



Perennial Rye grass 122 



English Bent Grass 122 



Meadow Fescue 122 



Sweet-scented vernal grass 123 



Millet 129 



Clover 129 



Alsike clover 130 



Lucern or Alfalfa 131 



White clover 131 



Red clover 132 



Grass-seed, when to sow 125 



Grass improving the soil 119 



Green manures 107 



Green manuring and manures. 107, 86 

 Guano... . 112 



