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INDEX 



Duroc-Jersey swine, 300 



Dust boxes for hens, 314 



Mulch, 65, 66 



Ear-row method, 23 

 Earth roads, 373 

 Egg breeds, 311 



packing, 318 



problems, 319 



records, 312 



testing, 319 

 Eggs, preserving, 319 



weight of, 318 



yolK of, 318 

 Electric lights, 400 



motors, 400 



power on farms, 400 

 Engine troubles, 399 

 English shire horses, 265 

 Ensilage, 147, 148, 333 

 Essentials in feeds, 328 

 Evergreens, how to use, 204, 205 

 Exercise, frequent in all chapters, 



see special topics, xix 

 referred to, 5 

 Experiment stations, list of, iii, 



iv 

 Experiment for school gardens, 200, 



201, 202 

 Eyes of insects, 220 



Fallow, bare, 90 

 Fanning grain, 22 

 Farm accounts, 364, 365 



choice in buying, 369 



crops, chapter on, 97, xxi 



equipment, repair of, 383 



forest planting, 181, 182 



getting started on, 368 



going in debt, 369 



management, section on, 360 



mapping the, 362 



need for better managements 

 367 



renting plan, 368 



school, plan of, 194 



stepping stone, a, 368 



the value of, 367 

 Farmer, a salesman, 365 

 Farmers' bulletins, see Bulletins 

 Farming, best men needed in, 361 



causes for changes in, 360 



changes in, 360 



contrasts, 361 



results of changes in, 361 



special and general, 88 



system in, 362 

 Fat in feeds, 330 

 Fats in milk, 345 

 Feed, equivalents in quarts, 404 



for pigs, 304, 305 



related to purpose, 338 



succulent, 317 



troughs for poultry, 315 

 Feeding beef cattle, 337 



for winter eggs, 316 



of insects, 220 



plants, 83 



principles of, 337 



standards, 339, xvi 



Feeding, systems for poultry, 316, 317 



young animals, 339 

 Feeds, analysis of, 330 



and feeding, 327, xxvi 



buying, 342 



change to tissue, 331 



digestibility, table of, xv 



essentials in, 328 



fertility in, xv 



list of, xv 



.Fermented milk, 353 

 Fertility in feeds, table of, xv 

 Fertilizer equivalents, xiv 



formulas, xii, xiv 



in feeds, 342 

 Fertilizers, collection of, 80 



commercial, 83-87 



for corn, 143 



for pastures, 109 



for special crops, xii, xiv 



high grade, 85, 86 



low grade, 85, 86 



problems on, 87 



value of, 85 

 Fibre crops, 97 

 Field records, 365 

 Fillers in orchards, 212 

 Film moisture in soils, 60, 61 

 Fine wooled sheep, 295 

 Flax, fibre, 159, 160, 161 



growing, 160 



harvesting, 160 



where grown, 160 

 Flies carry disease, 229 



life of, 228, 229 



remedies for, 229, 230 



trap for, 387 

 Flight of insects, 220 

 Flint corn, 100,101, 133 

 Floats, 84 

 Flowers, imperfect, 18 



of strawberry, 18 



parts of, 19 



perfect, 17 



pollination of, 18, 19 



purpose of, 17 

 Food value of milk, 345 

 Forage crops, 97, 98 



for midsummer, 101 

 Forest care and management, 188 



influences, 179, 180, 181 



planting, 178-182 



trees, distances, 184, 186 

 mixed plantings, 185 

 nurseries, 183 

 propagation of, 182 

 shade, 183 



Forestry, chapter on, 178, xxiii 

 Formalin for grain, 254 



potatoes, 253 



Fountains, drinking, 313, 315 

 Free water in soils, 60, 61, 62 

 French coach horses, 266, 267 



Merinos, 297 

 Frost and rainfall, 197 



vegetables injured by, 193 

 Fruit buds, 210, 212 



crop, care of, 218 



crops, 98 



fertilizer for, 403 



