INDEX 



Abaca (Manila fibre), 308 

 Adaptation, 26 

 Agriculture and forestry, 353 

 Air for germination, 3 



in soils, 72 

 Alfalfa, 144, 170-173 



in rotation, 144 



cutting, 173 



curing, 173 



amount of seed, 171 



inoculation for, 170 



lime for, 171 



varieties of, 172 

 Almonds, 364 

 Ammonia sulfate, 117 

 Annuals, 373, 380 

 Apple rust, 413 



scab, 413 



tree borers, 404 



flat-headed, 404 

 round-headed, 404 

 Apples, 325 



culture, 324-5 



fertilizers, 325 



pruning, 321-2 



setting, 322 



spraying, 325 



storing, 331 



varieties, 325 

 Aquarium, 1 1 

 Arsenate of lead, 421 

 Arsenic, test for, 431 

 Arsenical poisons, 420 

 Arsenite of zinc, 421 

 Artichokes, Globe, 274 



Jerusalem, 274 

 Ashes, 112 



potash from, 124 

 Asparagus, 273 



Bacteria in soils, 72 



Barley, 212 



culture of, 214 

 types of, 214 



Barnyard manure, 103 

 care of, 105 

 preservatives in, 106 

 rotted, 108 

 spreading of, 107 

 testing, 124 



Basic slag, 119 

 Bean, velvet, 180 

 Beans, 275 



lima, 276 



Beautifying home, 453 

 Beets, garden, 245 



growing, 245 



sugar, chapter on, 239 

 Bermuda grass, 158 

 Biennial, 373, 380 

 Blackberries, 337 

 Black-knot, 416 

 Blue-grass, Kentucky, 155 

 Boll-weevil, 297 

 Boll-worm, 298 

 Bordeaux mixture, 425, 431 



test for, 431 

 Borers, peach, 405 



squash vine, 406 



apple tree, 404 

 Breathing of plants, 6 

 Breeding, 34 



corn, 36, 37 



cotton, 39 



seed, 34 



tobacco, 39 

 Broccoli, 26S 



Brome grass, smooth, 151, 158 

 Brown rot, 414 

 Brussels sprouts, 268 

 Buckwheat, 216 

 Budding, annular, 61 



H, 61 



practice of, 68 



plate, 61 



ring, 61 



shield, 62 

 Bulbs, 56 



Business of Farming, chapter 

 on, 434 



Cabbage, 251 



worms, 405 



Calcium cyanimid, 117 

 Canada field peas, 117 



thistle, 381 



Cane sugar, manufacture of, 318 

 Canning clubs, 446 

 Canker worms, 404 

 Carbon bisulfide, 424 



455 



