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INDEX 



Potato beetles, 231, 400 



scab, 409 



treatment for, 409 



blight, 410 

 Potatoes, chapter on, 224 



breeding, 41 



cultivating, 228 



fertilizers for, 225 



harvesting, 231 



Irish, 224 



irrigation, 229 



planting, 227 



by machine, 228 . 



preparation of soil, 226 



scoring, 231 



seed, 226 



soils for, 225 



spraying, 229 

 sweet, 231 

 varieties, 224 



Potash, 119 



from ashes, 124 



muriate of, 199 



sulfate of, 119 

 Prepotency, 24 

 Propagation of plants by division, 



chapter on, 55 

 Protoplasm, 4 

 Pruning fruit trees, 322 

 Pumpkins, 280 

 Pyrethrum, 424 



Quack grass, 38.2 

 Quinces, 326 



Radishes, 266 



" Rag doll " method, 48 



Rainfall, average annual, 81 



distribution of, 92 

 Ramie, 312 

 Rape, 250 

 Raspberries, 337 

 Red top, 152, 156 

 References, end of each chapter 

 Reversion, 24 

 Rhubarb, 273 

 Rice, 215 



culture, 216 



harvesting, 216 



types, 216 



uses of, 215 

 Roads, 447 



drag for, 448 

 Rock phosphate, 118 



value of, 124 

 Rocks, disintegration of, 73 



Root crops, chapter on, 242 



comparison of (table), 242 



cuttings, 67 



propagation, 55 



soils for, 242 



stocks, 56 



hairs, 8, 12 

 Roots, purpose of, 8 

 Rotation, to kill weeds, 384 

 Rotations, acres in, 146 



and labor, 147 



and nitrogen, 147 



crop, 137 



for peanuts, 145 



for truck farmers, 145 



four-year, 142 



for South, 143 



long, 144 



one-year, 141 



three-year, 142 



two-year, 142 



Washington's, 145 

 Runners, 57 



Rural community, chapter on, 444 

 church, 447' 

 free delivery, 449 

 schools, 444 

 telephones, 448 

 Rutabagas, 248 

 Rye, 214 



culture of, 215 



Salsify, 270 

 San Jose scale, 402 

 Scion, 63 



Seed, farm and garden, chapter on, 

 44 



analysis, 44, 47 



breeding, 34, 36 



detection of impurities, 44 



distribution of weed, 377 



obtaining good, 50 



production, chapter on, 13 



testing, 47 

 Seeds, cleaners for, 53 



growth of, 18 



home grown, 50 



improving poor, 52 



local growers, 51 



parts of, 21 



purpose of, 20 



sources of, 51 



storage of, 53 



vitality of, 21 

 Selection, 24, 33 

 Selling, 440 



