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poi-fation Costs. Hybridization, Equipment of Farm Home, Evaporation of 

 Fruits, Fruit Juices, Cost Tal)les, Care of Nursery Stoclv, Cranberry Culture 

 in the Northwest, Forcing Orchards into Bearing, Cooperation, Strawberry 

 Culture, Cantaloup Culture, Floriculture, Fruit Growing in the Bitter Root 

 Valley, Vinegar ilaUing on the Farm, rollination Question, Complete List 

 of Important Economic Pests and Plant Diseases, Pruning, Orchard Man- 

 agement. Marketing, Liquid Fertilizer, ^NLnking an Orchard Pay Before 

 Coming Into Bearing, Value of Different Varieties of Apples, Cultivation, 

 Propagation of Plants, Plant Physiology, in fact the whole range of subjects 

 related to practical fruit and vegetable growing. 



COOKING AND PRESERVING RECIPES 



A very complete department of recipes for cooking, jireserving and 

 serving the various fruits and vegetables is given. The materials of this 

 department were arranged by iliss Alice M. Hodge. Stout Institute, Me- 

 nomonie. Wis. : Supervisor Domestic Science. Danville, 111. ; Supervisor Do- 

 mestic Science. Stevens Point. Wis. ; five years Supervisor Domestic Science, 

 North Yakima, Wash. 



SPRAY FORMULAE 



All the known spray mixtures are given under the head of Spraying 

 and Spray Materials. These are in many cases repeated in connection with 

 the particular pest or disease treated. 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



In all there are about seven hundred and fifty illustrations, of which one 

 hundred and twenty-four are line etchings, six hundred and twenty are half 

 tones from copper plates and six are three- and four-color process plates. 



Sixty-six are full page plates, one hundred and ten are half page, others 

 number five hundred and seventy-four. Altogether the illustrations cover two 

 hundred and sixty pages. 



CHARTS AND TABLES 



Scattered throughout the woi-k. there are numerous charts and tables 

 covering altogether one hundred and sixty-five pages. These charts and 

 tables deal with the statistics and costs of production of the various crops 

 treated, the numlier of plants jier acre on the various plans of setting out, 

 quality of fertilizer to be applied and nuinnrial value of cover crops, amount 

 of fertility removed by various crops, food values and chemical constituents 

 of fruits and vegetables, frost and precipitation in the various states, etc. 



North Yakima, Washington, Wm. Wohthixcton, 



August 24, 1914. Associate Editor. 



