CONTKNTS 



CHAPTER J AGE 



I. Plan of the Course as a Whole 1 



II. Equipment, Apparatus, .\xi> Lihrary 1(» 



III. The Insect Problem !>> 



IV. Birds L>:] 



V. Methods of Bihd Sti dv and Si'e< iai. ri;<u;i.i .\is 8.') 



VI. Tree Study and Civic Forestry .'»."> 



VII. Plant Problems : Preservation «>i \\'ii.d Flowers, 



Control of Weeds, jNIedicinae and Poisonous 



Plants <37 



VIII. Home Planting a.nd Landscai-e (tardeninc ... 77 



IX. Practical Biol<jov of Agricultural Production 



AND Civic Utilization of Land 01 



X. Insect Type Problems: Important Flie^ . . . 1<»7 



XL Insect Type Problems : ]\los(iriToEs 12o 



XI I. Insect Type Problems: Cabbage Butteijklv . L?'? 



XIII. Insect Type Problems: Ants HI 



WV. Special Proble:ms of Lnsect Contkoi 14s 



XA'. Arachnids. Problems of Sitdehs, Mites, and Tkks 1H:{ 



XVI. American ^Iammal I'koiu.fms !(>!• 



XVII. The R.vt Problem 178 



XVIII. Fungi: Bacteria, Veasts, Molds. Mm.df\n>. Pes is. 



Smuts, and jNIushrooms ls<> 



XIX. Fungi Continued: ^Mushhoo.ms, Poi>(»noi > am> 



Edible -'*•' 



XX. Fungous and B.vcteiiial Dlskasfs of I'lanis 207 



XXI. Bacteria -'!« 



XXII. Bacteria Continued: LAMoh-AroRV Methods . . -"Jl 



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