INDEX 



459 



Manure, 100 



barnyard, 103 



green, 100 



liquid, 106 



rotted, 108 



use of, 103 

 Manurial value of feeding stuffs, 



104 



Maple sugar, 360 

 Marketing, 440 



cooperation in, 441 

 Market fluctuations, 146 

 Meadow oat-grass, 152 

 Mendel's law, 31, 33 

 Metamorphosis, 390 



complete, 390 



incomplete, 392 

 Millets, 159 

 Miscible oils, 423 

 Moisture, 2, 11 



conservation of, 88 



fine film, 83 



hygroscopic, 85 



in dust, 92 



loss of, 88 

 Monecious, 14 

 Mound layering, 59 

 Mowers, 160 

 Mulch, dust, 89 



effect of, 93 

 Muskmelons, 278 

 Mustard, 265 

 Mutation. 22 



Nicotine sulfate, 423 

 Nitrate of soda, 117 

 Nitrogen, 116 



Oats, breeding, 40 



growing, 211 

 Oil, test for, 11 

 Okra, 277 

 Onions, 271 



wild, 38-2 

 Oranges, 328 

 Orchard grass, 156 

 Orchards, 320 



culture of, 325 



fertilizers for, 325 



setting trees, 322 



spraying, 325 



starting, 320 



tillage, 323 

 Organic matter, 70 

 Organisms in soil, 71 



Orthoptera, 393 



Osmosis, 9, 12 



Oxygen for germination, 3 



Parsley, 271 

 Parsnips, 269 

 Paris green, 421 

 Pastures, 150 



mixtures, 151 



permanent, 150 

 Peaches, 326 



leaf curl, 415 



packing, 331 

 Peanut, 182 



culture of, 183 

 Pears, 326 



ripening, 332 

 Peas, Canada field, 117 



garden, 266 

 Pecan, 363 

 Pedigrees, 32 

 Peppers, 283 

 Perennial, 373, 380 

 Persian insect powder, 424 

 Phosphoric acid, 118 



availability, 124 



Plant breeding, principles of, chap- 

 ter on, 22 



diseases, chapter on, 409 



diseases, 419 



life, chapter on, 1 



cycle of, 1 

 Plants, hardy, 261 



perennial, 261 



self-pollinated, 34 



starting early, 257 



tender, 261 



transplanting, 260 



types of garden, 261 

 Planting, depth of, 4 

 Plate budding, 61 

 Plot trial, 120 . 

 Plowing, deep. 95 



depth of, 123 



fall, 99 



fall or spring, 124 



seasonal, 419 

 Plum curculio, 402 

 Plums, 327 

 Poison bottles, 407 

 Pollination, 14 



artificial, 29 



by insects, 18 



by wind, 18 

 Popcorn, 277 



