xiv ILLUSTRATIONS 



158. Cross-section of Flax-seed . 218 



159. The Swelling Test 219 



160. Digestible Components in Common Feeds 220 



161. Tubers Sprouted in Strong Light and in Darkness 227 



162. This Type of Planter Requires Two Men to Operate It 228 



163. Horse-drawn Potato Diggers 229 



164. Potato Harvest 230 



165. Simple Potato Digger with Several Tines Instead of a Moldboard .... 230 



166. Bedding Sweet Potatoes 232 



167. Sweet Potato Plants 233 



168. Short Stems and Many Leaves 233 



169. Sweet Potato Bed 234 



170. The Long Form of Sugar Beet Root 240 



171. Students Harvesting Sugar Beets 241 



172. Half Sugar Mangels *. 243 



173. Carrots for Stock Feeding 247 



174. Rutabagas of the Bloodsdale Variety 249 



175. Dwarf Essex Rape 250 



176. A Thrifty Plant of Kohlrabi 252 



177. Farmer's Home Vegetable Garden 255 



178. Even North Dakota Gardeners Stake Their Tomato Vines 256 



179. The Construction, Use, and Management of a Hotbed 258 



180. The Transplanting Machine 260 



181. Head of Cauliflower 267 



182. A Typical Head 267 



183. Celery 269 



184. Bush-lima Beans in a Young Peach Orchard 275 



185. Okra or "Gumbo" Much Grown in the South 277 



186. Tomato Plants 281 



187. Saving Tomato Plants from Frost 282 



188. Sweet Peppers 283 



189. Flowers of the Cotton Plant. 287 



190. Stages in the Development of Cotton Boll 288 



191. A Typical Cotton Plant 289 



192. Two-row Riding Cultivators at Work 292 



193. Upland Cotton in Mississippi 293 



194. A Typical Cotton-gin House 294 



195. Interior View of Gin 295 



196. Cotton Attacked by Boll-weevil Larvae. . 296 



197. Fiber Flax in Michigan 304 



198. Flax Brake 304 



199 Flax Hackles 305 



200. Harvesting Hemp 307 



201. Hemp Fiber 308 



202. Abaca (Manila Hemp) Plants 309 



203. Henequin Ten-year-old Plants 309 



204. The Sisal Plant 310 



205. Sisal Fiber Drying 310 



206. The Ramie Grown from Perennial Rootstocks 311 



207. Jute is Sown Broadcast in India 311 



208. Stripped Sugar Cane 315 



209. Cutting the Cane Crop 316 



210. An Up-to-date Cane Harvester 317 



211. Interior of a Sugar Cane Mill 318 



212. When Trees Are First Received. . . 321 



