ILLUSTRATIONS xiii 



103. Redtop is Well Suited to Low, Sour Soils . . 157 



104. Orchard Grass 157 



105. Smooth Brome-grass 158 



106. Common Millet 159 



107. Sudan Grass 160 



108. A Crop of Mixed Timothy and Clover 161 



109. The Side Delivery Hay Rake 161 



110. The Hay Loader . 162 



111. Bailing Straw With Engine-driven Press 162 



112. Young Plant of Red Clover 166 



113. Hulling Red Clover Seed 167 



114. White Clover 168 



115. Crimson Clover 169 



116. The Crown Root and Nodules of Alfalfa Plant 170 



117. Early Rather Than Late Fall Sowing of Alfalfa 171 



118. The Seeds of Dodder . 172 



119. Dodder is a Parasite Weed 173 



120. The First Cutting of Alfalfa 174 



121. Alfalfa in Virginia 174 



122. Making the Fourth Cutting of Alfalfa 174 



123. Stacking Alfalfa in South Carolina 175 



124. It Pays to Use Hay Caps in a Moist Climate 175 



125. Cowpeas Grown in a Peach Orchard 176 



126. The Soy Bean Plant 178 



127. Vetch Plants 179 



128. The Tall Sweet Clover of the White Variety 181 



129. Two Types of Peanuts 182 



130. Map of Corn Distribution, 1909 188 



131. One Hundred Sixty-seven Bushels of B. C. White Corn: 189 



132. The Six Main Types of Corn 190 



133. Riding Cultivators With Small Shovels 192 



134. The Root System of Corn Plants. 193 



135. The Corn Husker and Shredder 194 



136. On a Florida Farm at Silo-filling Time 195 



137. Corn Harvester that Cuts and Ties the Crop 196 



138. Seed Corn Ready to Hang Up 197 



139. Seed Corn May be Hung on Cards 197 



140. Racks for Drying Corn 197 



141. Students Should Have Practice in the Use of the Score Card 198 



142. Corn Judging Exercise 199 



143. Removing the Kernels to Study Their Character 199 



144. A Ten-ear Sample of Prize-winning Corn 199 



145. Poor Shoe-peg Kernels 200 



146. Good Seed Corn 201 



147. The Embryo of Corn 201 



148. Bread Wheats and Club Wheat 206 



149. Map Showing What Types of Wheat are Common 207 



150. Wide Grain Drill Drawn by Four Heavy Horses 208 



151. Harvesting Grain With Modern Self-binder 209 



152. A Montana Field 209 



153. Grain Was Formerly Cut With a Cradle 210 



154. The Modern Thrasher 210 



155. A "Blue Sky" Granary 211 



156. Shocks of Oats 212 



157. Photograph Showing Heads of Barley 213 



