INDEX 



Bordeaux mixture, 233, 258, v, vi 



Bottling milk and cream, 351 



Boys' and girls' clubs, 6 



Brahma hen, 308 



Bran, 335 



Breed, defined, 259 



Breeding, laws of, 259 



Breeds, beef, 279 



keeping pure, 259 



of bees, 322 



of horses, 263 



sheep, 293, 294, 296 



swine, 301, 302, 304 

 Brewers' grains, 336 

 Brooder houses, Fig. 196 

 Brown rot of peach, 247, 248 



Swiss cattle, 284, 285 

 Budding apple trees, 37 



peaches and plums, 38, 39, 40 



sticks, 37, 39 

 Bud selection, 23 

 Buds, fruit, 210, 212 

 Bulletins, Farmers', how to secure 



3,390 



how to use, 3 

 referred to, see end of 



each chapter 

 Bushel measure, xi 

 Business of farming, 360 



sue ;ess, elements of, 363 

 Buttermilk, 353, 354, 356, 359 

 Butts of corn, 137 

 Buying feeds, 342 



By-products and mill feeds, 335, 

 337 



Cab horses, 266 



Cables, how made, 376 



Calf feeding, 337 



California, school gardening in, 192 



Calves, dairy, 285 



feed for, xvi 



Cambium layer of wood, 36 

 Capillary moisture, 60-64 



experiment, 64 

 Carbohydrates, 329 



and fat in feeds, xv 

 Carbon bi-sulphide, 231, x 



dioxide, 13, 14 



in plants, 13, 14 

 Carniolan bees, 322 

 Casein of milk, 345 

 Catalo hybrid cattle, 282 

 Catch crops, 90, 91 

 Caterpillar-hunting beetle, 239 

 Caterpillars, 224, 225 

 Cattle, chapter on, 279 



feed for, xvi 



judging, 289, 290 



points of, shown, 289 



products, chapter on, 344 



types of, 279 

 Caucasian bees, 322 

 Cedar apple, 251, 252 

 Cellulose, 329 

 Cereal crops, 97 

 Certified milk, 352 

 Changes in insects, 223 

 Cheese-making, 355 



Chester white swine, 201, 302 



Cheviot sheep, 294, 295, 296 



Chick creep, 388 



Chicken houses, 313, Figs. 195, 



inside of, 314 

 location of, 314 

 plan for, Fig. 199 



varieties, Figs. 189-194 



to keep, 313 



Chickens, varieties of, 311-313 

 Chinch bug, 231 

 Chlorophyl, 11, 12 

 Cholera, hog, 306 

 Churning, steps in, 354 

 Cicada captured, 241 

 Clayey soil, 52, 53, 54, 58, 59, 63 

 Cleaning seed, 22 

 Cleveland Bay horses, 266 

 Clothes moth, 230 

 Clover, alsike, 106 



compared with standard, 340, 

 341 



crimson, 91, 106 



for soiling, 99 



in rotation, 92, 93 



methods of starting, 107 



nodules, 103, 104 



red, 106 



when to cut, 107 



white, 106 



Clubs, corn, 151, 152 

 Clydesdales, 265 

 Coach horses described, 266 

 Coarse wooled sheep, 293 

 Cob of corn, 139 

 Cocoon, 223, 225 

 Codling-moth, 232, 233 



spraying for, 256, 257, 



258 



Cold frame, 194, 195, 196 

 Colluvial soil, 51 

 Colony of bees, 323 

 Column system of accounts, 364, 



365 



Commercial fertilizers, 83 

 Community centre, 6 

 Composition of animals, 327 



corn, 331 



feeds, xvi 



fertilizers, xii, xiv 



manures, xvii 



milk, 345, 346, 347 

 Composts of manure, 82, 83 

 Concentrated feeds, 332, 334-336 

 Concrete roads, 372 

 Condensed milk, 352 

 Contests, swine, 309 

 Contrasts in farming, 861 

 Cooling milk, 350 

 Copper sulfate, x 

 Coppice growth of trees, 189 

 Corn after oats and peas, 96 



as feed, 334 



butts, 137 



chapter on, 133 



clubs, 150, 151, 152 



cob, 135 



composition of, 331 



crop, 133 



