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INDEX 



Felt, E. P., 83 

 Fertilizer from fish, 1 13 

 Fiber zibethicus, 220, 222 

 Field mice, 246-51 



clean cultivation as a preventative, 

 250 



destruction of, 249-51 

 of enemies of, 250-51 



poisoning of, 249-50 



skulls from owl pellets, 250 



trapping, 249 

 Filaria, 38 



mode of infection, 38 

 Filth fly, 94 

 Finback whale, 278-79 

 Findlay, Carlos J., 9 

 Fire-hunting for alligators, 172-74 

 Fish, cans, 121 



culture, 118-22 



begun in the United States, 118 

 for family use, 122 

 first practised, 118 

 primary object of, 120 



eggs, artificial fertilization of, 120 

 transportation of, 122 



fry, feeding of, 121 

 transportation of, 121 



glue, 113 



hatcheries of various states, 120 



hatching trays, 120, 121 



importance as food, 113 



milt, 120 



as mosquito destroyers, 88 



poisonous forms, 113-14 

 Fisher, A. K., 191, 192, 251 

 Fissipedia or carnivora vera, 212 



families of, 212 

 Flagella of sponge, 1 1 

 Flakes for drying codfish, 116 

 Flat-horned deer, 269-70 

 Flatworms, 26, 27, 28 

 Fleas, methods of control, 102 

 Flint, 3 



sponge deposits, 14 

 Florida sponges, 12 



value of, 14 



Flukes, 26 



sheep, life-history, 29, 30 



Fly, as bacteria carrier, 93 

 control, 94-96 

 as disease carrier, 92 

 favorite breeding places, 9 

 life-history, 94 

 paper, traps, etc., 95-6 

 rate of increase, 94 

 specks, danger of, 92 

 screens and moths, 102 



Flying ants, 98 

 foxes, 210 



Fly's wing, hairs of, 93 



Follicle mite, 82, 83 



Foot itch, 35 



Foraminifera, 3, 10 



Forbush, E. H., 197 



Fox, diseases, 217 



escape from pens, 219 

 farming centres, 218 

 farms, value of, 217 

 and field mice, 251 

 food of, 219 

 gestation period, 219 

 and ground squirrels, 254 

 kennel, 218, 219 

 method of killing, 219 

 number in litter, 219 

 pen, 218 



fence of, 218 

 poachers, 220 

 raising of, 214, 216 

 ranch location, 218 



plan, 217 

 red, skin of, 213 

 sexual maturity, 219 

 time of killing, 219 



Fresh water mussel, 44 



Frog, age at maturity, 132 

 artificial propagation, 130 

 centres for collection, 129 

 eggs, 130 

 enemies, 130 

 extermination, 130 

 flesh, 129 



