Xii . ILLUSTRATIONS 



48. Vine Layering 59 



49. Mound Layering 59 



50. Making Hard Wood Cuttings 60 



51. Methods of Making Hardwood Cuttings 61 



52. Methods of Placing Hardwood Cuttings in a Trench 61 



53. Three Steps in the Budding Operation 62 



54. The Growing of the Young Shoot 63 



55. Sweet Cherry Trees During Their First Season's Growth 64 



56. Apples are Commonly Propagated by Root Grafting '65 



57. Students Setting Out Rooting Grafts in Garden Rows 66 



58. A Quiet Lily-pond 70 



59. A Soy Bean Nitrogen Factory 72 



60. When Eroding Fields are Neglected 74 



61. Hillsides., 75 



62. Hillsides May be Terraced to Prevent Erosion 76 



63. Moisture Conservation Methods for Wheat 82 



64. Moisture Conservation Methods for Corn 83 



65. Common Lamp Chimneys as Soil Containers 84 



66. Placing Dynamite and Fuse in Drill Hole 86 



67. The Acme Harrow is a Good Clod Crusher 88 



68. The Weeder 89 



69. Ridging the Soil 90 



70. Tractor with Wheels of the "Caterpillar" Type 96 



71. The Disk Harrow 97 



72. Loosening the Subsoil With Dynamite 97 



73. A Spring Tooth Harrow 98 



74. The Common Spike Tooth Harrow 99 



75. Plowing Under a Green Manure Crop of Rye 101 



76. Diagram Showing Comparative Manurial Values of Feeding Stuffs . . 104 



77. Manure Left in Piles in Barnyard 105 



78. Liming the Soil 109 



79. Equivalents in the Different Forms of Lime 112 



80. Lime May be Spread With a Manure Spreader 113 



81. The Spreading of Lime or Fertilizer 113 



82. Diagram Showing the Mixture of Fertilizers 114 



83. Glade Land in a Mountainous Region 127 



84. Students Surveying for Drainage Lines 128 



85. Students Placing Tile in Ditch for Land Drainage 129 



86. Diagram of Acreage of Crops Irrigated in 1909 130 



87. A Dam of Wood and Earth 131 



88. Elephant Butte Dam, Messila Valley, N. M 132 



89. A Dredge Digging a Ditch for Irrigating an Extensive Area 133 



90. Irrigation of Wheat by Open Furrow Method 134 



91. Peanuts 139 



92. Just Right for Hay Making 140 



93. Diagram Showing Rotation of Crops 143 



94. Another Plan for a School Farm . . . 143 



95. A Ten-acre School Farm Showing the Building Facing South 144 



96. A School Farm Plan in Which School Building Faces West 144 



97. Tall Meadow Oat Grass 152 



98. Hay Demonstration in South Carolina 153 



99. Types of Grain Sorghums 153 



100. Kafir Corn 154 



101. Timothy 155 



102. Kentucky Blue-Grass and Canada Blue-Grass 156 



