INDEX 



XXXIX 



Tuber crops, 97 

 Type of corn, 135 

 Types of cattle, 279 



horses, 263 



wheat, 154, 155 

 Typhoid flies, 229 



Underdrainage, effects of, 64 



principles of, 69 

 Unsoundness in horses, 273 



Value of manures, xvii 



poultry, 311 



the farm, 367 

 Variation among animals, 260 



in milk, causes of, 346 



laws of, 260 

 Varieties of chickens, 306, 309 



fruit, 316, 317 

 Vegetable gardening, 191, 197 



matter in soil, 55 

 Vegetables, hardy ( and tender, 



planting distances for, xviii 

 Ventilation by drainage, 69 



of barns, 349, 350 

 Vetch, 99 

 Vines on buildings, 204 



vitality of seed corn, 136 



Wagon jack, 387 

 Wasp with cica da, 241 

 Water, capillary, 60-64 



free in soils, 60, 61 



in flesh, 327 



plants, 14 



soils, 60, 63 

 Water in soil formation, 46, 47, 48 



influenced by trees, 180, 181 

 Wax for grafting, 37 

 Waxing cotton for grafting, 37 

 Weathering of rocks, 46 



193 



Weed nuisance, 27 



seeds, identifying, 25 



sprouting, 112, 116 

 Weeds classified, 28, 32, xix 



collecting, 38 



common, table of, 33 



denned, 28 

 Weeds, fighting perennial, 31 



persistent, 30 



preventing, 75 



spraying, 31 



Weevils, treatment for, vi 

 Weights of seeds, ix 

 Wet mashes for chickens, 316 

 Wheat, 154, 155, 156 



fertilizer for, xii 



good and poor, 23 



harvesting, 156 



heavy seed, 156 



in rotation, 92, 93 



planting, 155 



soil for, 155 



types of, 154, 155 

 Whip grafting, 36 

 Wind-breaks, 180, 181, 182 



for poultry, 311 

 Windmills, 401 

 Wings of insects, 314 

 Wood lot, 179, 181, 189 



mounted samples, 187 



rings of, 187 

 Wool, samples of, 296 



yolk of, 295 

 Wrigglers of mosquitoes, 224, 226 



227 

 Wyandotte hen, Fig. 194 



Yellow fever mosquitoes, 227, 228 

 Yellows of peach, 247, 248, 251 

 Yorkshire, large, 300 

 Young animals, feeding, 339 



