INDEX 



Aberdeen-Angus, 228 



Accounting, see Farm accounting 



Acid soil, 44 



Aeration, see Air 



Air, amount in soil, 24; composition 

 in soil, 23; how held in soil, 23; 

 how supplied to soil, 25; plants' 

 need of, 6; relation to plant 

 growth, 3 



Alfalfa, 113, 114 



American Merino, 254 



Ammonia, losses of, 30 



Army worm, 181 



Ayrshire, 240 



Animals, farm, how to produce, 205- 

 215; kind to keep, 216-219; why 

 raise, 201-204; see Farm animals 



Apple diseases: bitter rot, 167; blue 

 mold rot, 168; canker, 172; cod- 

 ling moth, 1 86; rust and red cedar, 

 165; scab, 165, 171 



Babcock test, 236 



Bacon type, hog, 262 



Bacteria, 24, 27, 32, 35, 44, 109, 247, 

 250, 251, 314, 315; action on milk, 

 250; organic matter, 27; 

 rock phosphate, 35; sewage, 315; 

 soil, 24, 27; cause of plant dis- 

 eases, 162; denitrifying, 29, 30; 

 nitrifying, 28; nitrogen-fixing, 30, 

 31, 32, 100; typhoid, 34 



Barley, distribution map, 103; har- 

 vesting, 104; improving, 159; 

 production and value, 89; vari- 

 eties, 102, 103 



Beef cattle, 220-232, breeds, 225- 

 229; and capital, 33 ij character- 



istics, 222; conformation, 225; 

 dressing percentage, 224; feeders, 

 231 ; feeding and management, 230; 

 feed lots and buildings, 230; kind 

 to raise, 222; market demands, 220; 

 marketing, 231; production, 220, 

 221; raising on farm, 222 



Beef cuts, position of, 221; whole- 

 sale, 221; wholesale prices of, 223 



Bees, 107, 108 



Berkshire, 264, 265 



Bills, payable, 306; receivable, 3^ 



Birds, 194-200; appreciation of, 200; 

 census of, 197; as destroyers of 

 insects, 195, of rodents, 195, 

 of weed seeds, 194; food of adult, 

 194, of young, 196; importance 

 of, 197; list of insect eaters, 195, 

 of seed eaters, 194, 195; nesting 

 sites and food for, 199; popula- 

 tion of, 197; relation of trees and 

 shrubs to, 198 



Blight, 167, 169, 170 



Boll- weevil, 123 



Boll-worm, 123 



Bordeaux mixture, 128, 165 



Brooder, 290 



Buckwheat, 106, 107; honey, 107; 

 production, 89; sowing, 107 



Budding, 145 



Bumble bee, 180 



Burbank, Luther, 152 



Bureau of Plant Industry, 148 



Business, farm, 294, 295, 321 



Cabbage, butterfly, 191; club-root, 

 171; maggot, 191; worm, 181, 192; 

 yellows, 170 



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