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INDEX 



Swine, 303. 



Syrup making, 160. 



Terracing, 74, 75, 78. 



Thistlr, iSj. 



Tick fever, 330. 



Ticks, on cattle, 330. 



Timothy hay, 332. 



Tobacco, 14, 61 . 



Tomatoes, 16, 187, 190. 



Trees, forest, 86, 203; telling age of, 



207; leaves of, aio. 

 Tubercles, 88, 89, 1 68. 

 Turnips, 187. 

 Turpentine, boxing for, 205, 206. 



Unavailable plant food, 56. 

 Underd rains, 79. 



Vegetable garden, 185. 



Vegetable matter, 55, 56, 83, 117, 245. 



Velvet beans, 184. 



Verbenas, 195, 200. 



Vetches, 77, 176. 

 Violets, 195, 199. 



Walnut tree, 212, 213. 



Washes in fields, 63, 74, 76. 



Water, current, 30; forming soil, 54; 

 how lifted, 29; how used, 28; kinds 

 of, 65; lost by leaves, 28; movement 

 in soil, 66. 



Watermelons, 113, 166; wQt of, 167. 



Weeder, 126. 



Weeds, 116, 182. 



Weevil, Mexican cotton-boll, 264. 



Wheat, 12, 23, 114, 118, 121, 138; cul- 

 ture of, 139; diseases of, 233. 



Wheat bran, composition of, 322. 



Wheat shorts, composition of, 322. 



Wheat straw, composition of, 322. 



Window gardens, 201 . 



Wistaria, 193. 



Wyandotte breed, 312. 



Yeast, 228. 



