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Index 



Cervantes, 215 



Chautauqua Fruit Belt, 42, 43 



Cherries, diseases of, 157; pruning, 



135; varieties, 94 

 Charlevoix, 45, 97 

 Cicero, 326 

 Clay land, 138 

 Climate, 33; belt, 36; importance 



of, 62, 209 

 Coal-measures, 192 

 Coddling-moth, 275 

 Concord grape {see Grapes) 

 Carboniferous Age, 42 

 Cornell University, 120 

 Cover-crop, 22, 143, 144, 145, 



149 

 Cropping the land, 200, 232 

 Curculio, 156 

 Currants, 109 



Darwin, Charles, 278 



De CandoUe collection, 21 



Denonville, 45 



Destruction by insects, 280; by 



scale, 282 

 Devonian Age, 42, 182 

 Dobbins, Captain, 240 

 Drainage, construction, 78, 79; 



importance, 77, 85, 189, 248, 



249 

 Dry farming, 190 



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Earthworms, 278 

 Edison, 53 



Employers' Liability Act, 129 

 Emerson, quoted, 26 

 English Historical Review^ 335 

 Erie County, 45 



Experimental Stations and Schools, 

 153, 164, 165, 187, 208, 235 



Farm buildings, 260, 261 

 Farm management, 25 

 Farm valuation, 288, 289, 290 

 Fertilizing, 19, 20, 183, 197, 202; 

 tables, 204, 205, 206, 207, 248 

 Florida, 47, 126 

 Florida rock, 202 



Franklin (Poor Richard), cited, 

 215; quoted, 56, 213 



Fruit, quality desired, 131, 135 



Fruit-farm, a clock, 14; accessi- 

 biUty, 67; associations, 8, 11, 

 317-343; care of, 57; cultivation 

 of, 131-174, 255; enemies of, 

 152, 153; planning the, 71 -112, 

 30, 31, 72, III; scarcity value 

 of, 12; selecting the, 33-70; 

 supreme rule of, 5 



Fruit-farmer, and the boy, 220- 

 228,342; and birds (see Birds); 

 the model, 240-271; and his 

 farm, 68, 69, 317-343 



Fruit, nature of, 192 



Fruit-raising, artificial, 54, 55; 

 process, 60; quality, 147; secret 

 of, 250, 255; {see "Neville 

 Farm") 



Fungi {see also Birds, Insects, 

 Scale, Spraying), 41, 75, 91, 

 loi, 108, 150, 151, 152, 153, 

 I54» 156, 158, 161, 230, 242 



Gage's Gulf, 182 



Garden of Eden, 215 



Girls and the fruit-farm, 211-239, 



338 

 Glacial Period, 65 

 Gooseberries, 109 

 Grapes, 95-105; trimming, 138; 



diseases, 158; roots, 141 

 Great American Desert, 97 

 Griffon^ the, 45 

 Guano, 204 

 Gypsy-moth, 275 



Hamlet, 51 



Hardpan, 188 



Harrison, Fairfax, 41, notQ 



Hedges, 265 



Help {see Labor) 



Hennepin, 45, 320 



Hog's Back, the, 97, 182 



Homer, 21, 25 



Hull House, 54 



Humus {see Fertilizer, Soil), 17, 

 22, 141, 143, 172, 176, 194, 201, 

 205, 208, 209, 230, 232, 233, 

 234» 255 



