INDEX 



Adam Bede, 26 



JEneid, 25 



Age of Fishes, 182, 192 



Agricola, 25 



Agricultural Colleges, 22, 24 



Alaska, 196 



Alsach (Alsike) clover, 140 



America as fruit-producer, 126, 



127 

 Ammonia, 204 

 Angelo, Michael, 25 

 Anthracnose, 108 

 Antiquary, the, 26 

 Appendicitis, 64 

 Apples, varieties, 87 

 Argonauts of '49, 318 

 Aristotle, 214, 326 

 Ashes, 95, 184, 204 

 Atlantic City, 82 



B 



Babylon's Hanging Gardens, 59 



Bacon, Sir Francis, 326 



Bailey, Professor, cited, 208; 



quoted, 300 

 Barnyard manure, 140, 142, 149, 



180, 184, 185, 186, 197, 198, 



207, 266 

 Baskets and packages, 147 

 Beal, Dr., cited, 309 

 Beethoven, 25 

 Berries, 85, 86 

 Birds, and aliens, 303 ; and public 



schools, 283; bird-life, tide of, 



296; bird sanctuary, 308, 316; 



blackbirds, 275; bobolinks, 314; 



bulletins, 309, 315; cats, 298; 



chippet, 315, 316; consumption 



of msects by, 277, 307; crops, 



contents of, 305; crows, 314, 



315; destruction of, 291, 293; 

 doves, 315; English sparrow, 

 312, 315; extinction of, 294; 

 game- wardens and, 304; in 

 Italy, 300; jays, 313; Lane law, 

 272; martins, 315; orioles, 313, 

 315; passenger pigeon, 293; 

 phoebe, 315; pot-hunters and, 

 278, 304; robins, 276, 277, 294, 

 306; swallows, 311; tanager, 

 276; thrushes, 310, 311; value 

 of, 272-316; varieties, uses, 

 310; woodpeckers, 276, 311, 

 315; wren, 315; and see 272-316 



Birds of a Maryland Farm, 309 



Birds of California^ 309 



Blackberries, 108 



Bluecher, 335 



Bone, 202 



Book-farming, 163, 165 



Boone, Daniel, 318 



Bordeaux, mixture, 156; tables, 

 160; see also under Spraying 



Boys and the fruit-farm, 211- 



239, 338 

 British Columbia, 40 

 Bronze Age, 35 

 Bulletins for fruit-raising, 153, 



154; list of, 173 

 Bumper crops, 18 

 Burbank, Luther, cited, 24; 208 

 Buried seeds, 195 



Caesar, 51 



California, 47, 126, 318 



Canterbury Pilgrim, 14 



Cato, cited, 12, 29, 58, 122; 



quoted, 40, 166, 167, 210 

 Cats, 278, 298 

 Celeron, 320 

 Central America, 40 



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