INDEX 



577 



Sweet-potato (continued) 

 effect on land, 437. . 

 fertilizers, 435. 

 fire hot-beds, 439. 

 flowers and seeds, 427. 

 fungous diseases, 454. 

 harvesting, 447. 

 high and low beds for, 446. 

 humus for, 435. 

 insects, 452. 

 kiln drying, 450. 

 kind and quantity to bed, 440. 

 laboratory exercises, 455. 

 literature, 455. 

 manure bed for, 438. 

 market demands, 431. 

 methods of harvesting, 448. 

 place in the rotation, 436. 

 preparation of land for, 445. 

 propagation of, 438. 

 pruning the vines, 447. 

 root-borer, 452. 

 root-rot, 414. 

 slips, 441. 

 soft-rot, 455. 

 soils, 434. 



starch and alcohol from, 429. 

 storage house, 451, 452. 

 time to dig, 447. 

 time of transplanting, 444. 

 transplanting, 442. 

 transplanting machines, 443. 

 value as food, 428. 

 varieties, 431. 

 vine cuttings of, 445. 

 yields, 449. 



Tennessee Experiment Station, 39, 



67, 121, 270. 

 Tennessee, productive varieties of 



corn in, 121. 

 Teosinte, 78. 

 Texas Experiment Station, 122, 



246, 295, 314. 

 Texas, productive varieties of corn 



in, 122. 



2p 



Throw-board, 190, 191. 

 Tillage of wheat, 57. 

 Tilletia horrida, 229. 

 Tobacco, 523. 



breeding, 527. 



composition, 524. 



cultivation, 533. 



cultural methods, 529. 



curing, 540, 542. 

 air, 541. 

 fire, 540. 

 flue, 541. 

 cigar, 541. 



cut-worms, 544. 



description, 523. 



diseases, 544. 



distance for, 532. 



distribution, 523. 



fertilizer formulas, 526. 



fertilizers, 525. 



harvesting, 538. 



indications of maturity, 538. 



insects, 544. 



laboratory exercises, 545. 



literature, 546. 



nematodes, 544. 



nitrogen for, 525. 



preparation for, 532. 



rotations for, 537. 



seed-bed, 529. 



seed-blower, 529. 



seed, saving, 527. 



setting, 532. 



shade, 530, 536. 



soils, 524. 



sowing, 531. 



stripping, 543. 



suckering, 535. 



topping, 533. 



transplanting machine, 534. 



two methods of harvesting, 539, 



types and varieties, 526. 



wire-worm, 545. 



worm, Southern, 544, 545. 



yields and prices, 543. 

 Tompkins, A. D., 376. 



