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INDEX 



Soiling crops, 98, 99, 333 



entire, 98 



for the dairy, 98 



partial, 98, 101 



system, 98 



Soils, characteristics, chanter on 

 52 



how formed, chapter on, 44 



inoculation of, 112 



water-holding power, 62, 63 



in, 60, 63 

 Soluble oil, 238 



Sorting and grading fruit, 218, 219 

 Souring of milk, 351, 353 

 Southdown sheep, 294, Fig. 177 

 Soy beans, 92, 99, 104 

 Spark system, 397 

 Specimens, preserving, 238, 239 

 Sphinx caterpillar, 241 

 Sports denned, 260 

 Spray mixtures, v 



time to, 249, 255, 256, 257 

 Spraying, 246, 250, 255, 258 



orchards, 255, 257 



principles, 257 

 Standardized milk, 352 

 Standards of feeding, 339, 362 

 Starch, 329 



in plants, 13 



State experiment stations, iii 

 Stems of plants, 9 



relation of light, 10 

 sap in, 10 

 Steps in churning, 354 



cheese-making, 355 

 Stock feeding, 337 

 Stocks for apples, 35 



peaches, 38, 39 

 Stomates, 11, 12 

 Storage of sweet potatoes, 173 

 Stored grain, treatment of, 231 

 Storing corn, 147, 151, 152 



vegetables, 196 

 Stover corn, 147, 152 

 Stratifying peach seeds, 39 

 Straw as feed, 332 

 Strawberries, 214, 215, 216 



flowers of, 216 



methods of planting, 214 



varieties of, 216 

 Structure and physiology of plants 



chapter on, 8 

 Subjects in school, 4, 5 

 Subsoil and plow, 58 

 Success, elements of, 363 



in gardening, 191 

 Succulent feed, 316 

 Sucking insects, 220, 221 



sprays for, v 

 Suffolk Punch, 266 

 Sugar in milk, 346 



plants, 13 

 Sugars, 329, 330 

 Suggestions to teachers, 2, xix 

 Sunlight aids plants, 12, 13 

 Super for hives, 325 

 Superphosphate, 85, 87 

 Surveys, swine, 308? 

 Swarming of bees, 325 

 Sweeps, 402 



Sweet corn, 100, 101, 102 

 potatoes, 171, 172, 173 

 cultivation, 173 

 fertilizer for, xiii 

 harvesting, 173 

 hot-bed, 173 

 soil for, 171 

 storage, 173 



Swine, chapter on, 298, xxv 

 contests and debates, 309 

 feed for, xvi 



Swine, four stages in life of, 305 

 mineral for, 304 

 types of, 299 

 Syrian bees, 322 

 System in farming, 362 

 Systems, cropping, 88, xxi 



Tables, consult Appendix, 1 



Tachinid fly, 229 



Tamworth swine, 300, Fig. 186 



Tankage, 84 



Teachers, suggestions to, 2 



Temperature and souring, 350, 351 



in soil farming, 45, 46 

 Temperatures, 16 

 Tender vegetables, 193 

 Tester for ear method, 141 

 Testing milk and cream, 355, 359 



results, 142 



seed corn, 140 



Thinning plants, lessons in, 201 

 Thorax of insects, 220 

 Thoroughbred, 260, 267, 269 

 Three-horse eveners, 385 

 Tillage, 72, 75 



of corn, 145 

 Timber crops, 98 

 Time to prune, 210 

 Tips of corn, 136 

 Toads destroy insects, 240 

 Tobacco, care of, 176, xxiii 



curing, 177 



harvesting, 176 



nicotine in, 175 



seeding, 176 



soil for, 175 



sorting, 177 



transplanting, 176 



types, 175 



varieties, 177 



where grown, 175 

 Tomatoes, fertilizer for, xiii 

 Tongue graft, 36 

 Tractors, for belt machine, 394 



for implements, 392, 394, 396 



plowing with, 391 



sizes of, 392 

 Tread mills, 402 



Treatment of seed potatoes, 253 

 Tree planting, 179, 188 



Arbor Day, 188 



seeds, 182, 183, 184 

 Trees and water supply, 180, 181 



kinds of, 182, 190 



raising of, 35 



shape of, 180 



top-working, 40 

 Tripe, swine,"308 

 Trotter, American, 268, 269 



