INDEX 



XXXV 



Morgan horse, 270 

 Mosquitoes, 224, 225 



malaria, 226, 227 



yellow fever, 227, 228 

 Moth, clothes, 230 



grain, 230, 231 

 Motor trucks, 391 

 Mouldboards, forms of, 74 

 Moulting of insects, 222 

 Mouth parts of insects, 220 

 Movement of moisture, 62 

 Mowing pastures, 109, 110 

 Muck, 55 

 Mulch, effect of, 65 



dust, 65 



Mules, classes of, 268 

 Mutations defined, 260 



Native stock, 261 



Nitrate of soda, 84, 86, xii, xiv 



Nitrogen, xii, xiv 



fertilizers, 83 



in feeds, xv 



manures, xvii 

 Nodules on legumes, 103, 104 



studying, 113 

 Nozzles for spraying, 357 

 Nutrients, 332 

 Nutritive ratios, 340 

 Nymph stage of insects, 225 



Oat smut, treatment, 254, 255 

 Oats, 156, 157, 158 



and grain for soiling, 101 

 hay, 100 

 for peas, 99, 100 

 in rotation, 95 



as feed, 335 



fertilizers for, xii 



in rotation, 92, 93 

 Oil meal, 336 



presence of. 330 

 Olericulture denned, 191 



Ornamental chickens, 311, 312 



gardening, 202, 203 



planting, 188 

 Orchard cover crops, 92, 211 



culture, 211, 213 



site and soils, 206, 207 



trees, pruning, 207, 208 

 setting, 207 

 when to plant, 207 

 Osmosis defined, 14 



use of, 14 



with egg, 15 



with potato, 15 

 Owls, 342 



Oxford sheep, 294, Fig. 178 

 Oxygen in plants, 13, 14 



and air, 16, 17 



Pageants, 7 



Palatability 9f feed, 341, 342 

 Parasites of insects, 240 

 Paris green, 258, v 

 Pasture, in rotation, 93 



plants, 108 



system, 101 

 Pastures, bad conditions in, 109 



how to keep, 109, 110 



Pastures, permanent, 

 ilture, 



108 

 Peach culture, 211 



leaf curl, 248, 250 

 scab, 247 

 tree borer, 235 



Peach varieties, 212, 213 

 yellows, 247, 248, 251 

 Peaches injured by curculib, 235 

 Pea root nodules, 104 

 Peaty soil, 52, 55, 59, 63 

 Pedigree, sample, x 

 Pedigrees, 261 

 Percherons, 264 

 Perennial weeds, 30 

 Perennials defined, 20 



place for, in garden, 192 

 Perfect strawberries, 216 

 Permanent pastures, 108 

 Phosphate rock, 84 

 Phosphoric acid, xii, xiv 



in fertilizers, 84, 85 

 in feeds, xv 

 in manures, xvii 

 Phosphorus, study of, 85 

 Picking and packing fruit, 218 



bag for fruit, 387 

 Pig management, 308 

 Pipe wrench, 387 

 Pistillate strawberries, 216 

 Plan for farm school, 194 



school grounds, 198 

 Planning crops 362 

 Plans for planting shrubs, 204, 205 

 Plant diseases, 246, 247 



prevention of, 247 

 studying, 247 



food in soils, 15, 58, 59 



improvement, chapter on, 22 



xix 

 Planting corn, 144 



experiment, 144 



distances for fruits, xviii 

 vegetables, xviii 



mixed, for trees, 185 



ornamentals, directions for, 205 



potatoes, 167 



principles of, 203 



time of, 192 



trees, 179, 180, 181 



methods of, 181, 188 



need of, 179, 181 



on the farm, 181 



vegetables, 193 

 Plants and moistures, 10, 11 



as soil formers, 45, 48 



breathing of, 12 



division of, 42 



feeding of, 83 



flowers of, 8, 17 



for pasture, 108 



get food from air, 12 



leaves of, 8, 10 



mineral matter in, 10, 11, 14 



needs of, 16 



parts of, 8 



per acre for vegetables, xviii 



roots of, 8, 



stems of, 8, 9 



water used by, 62 



