Index 



347 



Iliad, 25 



Insects (5ge Birds, Scale, Spraying) 

 Intensive farming, 15, 240-271 

 Italy (birds), 300, 301 



J 



Jefferson, cited, 326; quoted, 27 



K 



Kainit, 207 

 Keeping young, 327 

 Kalbfus, cited, 276 



Labor conditions, 114; fundamen- 

 tal question of, 119; locality, 

 116; season, 115; treatment of, 



T ^^3 . 



Lacustrine, 21, 23 



La Hontan, 45, 97 



Lake Como, 301, 302 



Lake Dwellers, 21 



Lake Erie, 139 



Lake Geneva, 21 



Lake Shore Valley, 12, 16, 30, 34, 

 37; described, 42-47; berries in, 

 no; labor in, 117; location, 

 126; spraying in, 128; altitude, 

 139; adapted to grapes, 155, 161, 

 171; geology, 182 



Land, feeding the, 18, 19, 141, 

 142, 175-210 



La Salle, 45, 46, 97, 320 



Leaf -hopper, 158 



Lines of trade and travel, 37 



Longfellow, quoted, 326 



Louis XIV, 54 



Law, John, 241 



Lucullus, 54 



M 



Mayflower^ the, 9, 334 



Managgio, 301, 302 



Michigan, 47 



Mill, J. S., 214 



Mississippi Bubble, the, 241 



Montmorenci cherry, 6 {see 



Cherry) 

 Muriate of potash, 207 



N 



Napoleon, 27, 214, 324, 325, 335, 



336 

 "Neville Farm," 243-271 

 Newton, Isaac, 215 

 New York Evangelist, the, 2i 

 New York Tribune, the, 262 

 New Jersey, 37 

 New Zealand, 39, 40 

 Nitrate of soda, 107, 184, 193, 



202, 203 

 Nitrogen, 22, 172, 187, 200, 201, 



202, 204, 205, 207 

 Notes on Virginia^ 27 



Orchard, cultivation, 148, 149, 

 150: planting (spaces), 74; 

 setting out trees, 81, 82, 84; 

 trimming, 135, 136, 249 



Package law, 129 

 Palestine, 284 

 Parton, quoted, 215 

 Pears, 87; blight, 88 

 Pennsylvania, 39, 47 

 Pennsylvania R.R., 128 

 Perry, Commodore, 46, 240 

 Phosphate, 193, 200; see Fertilizer 

 Phosphoric acid, 172, 201, 202, 



204, 205 

 Pittsboro, S. C, 284 

 Plant food, 83, 179, 180, 184, 192 

 Plants, food, 180; our ignorance 



of, 193, 194, 195; growth, 178, 



179, 184 

 Plato, 215, 326, 341 

 Plums (prunes), 89, 90, 135 

 Poor Richard, 56 

 Pope, Alexander, 162 

 Potash, 19; chickweed as, 143, 



187, 201, 205 

 Potato bug, 275 

 Prince Edward Island, 119 

 Profits in fruit-farming, 240-271 

 Prunes (plums), 90, 91 

 Pyrethrum, no 



Quince, 95 



