INDEX 



313 



Hand work in orchards, 88 



Harrows for orchards, 94 



Hay in orchards, 75, 77, 83 



Heading trees, 55 



Health of trees, 26 



Heeling in nursery stock, 50 



Hexagonal method of planting or- 

 chards, 46 



Hitchings, Grant, culture methods 

 of, 77 



Home-boiled lime-sulfur, 196 



Home-made lime-sulfur concentrate, 

 195 



Home spray mixtures vs. commercial, 

 189 



Hose spraying, 186 



Hubbardston, soils for, 19 



Humus added by cover crops, 108 



Hydrometer, 194 



Implements for orchard culture, 91 

 Insecticides, 197 

 contact, 198 



Insects attacking the apple, 144 

 the pear, 157 

 stone fruits, 160 

 effect of fall plowing on, 85 

 in sod orchards, 82 



Keeping of apples grown in sod, 78 



of fruit, 29 



qualities of fruit, factors in- 

 fluencing, 254 

 Kerosene emulsion, 199 

 Knapsack sprayer, 176 

 Knife for pruning, 134 



Labels, 288 



Lands for orchards, 8 



Laws affecting orcharding, 298 



Laying off orchards, 47 



Leaf curl of peach, 172 



Light-draft orchard harrow, 98 



Lime-sulfur, commercial, 194 



home-boiled, 196 



home-made concentrate, 195 



self-boiled, 196 

 Low heading of trees, 58 

 in sod, 79 



Macoun, Prof. W. T., quoted, 306 

 Magazine advertising, 296 

 Mangels as companion crop, 72 

 Market, general, 281 

 special, 280 



Marketing, cooperative, 283 



fruit, 277 

 Marshall, A. A., culture methods of, 



Maturity of fruit, proper degree of, 



^54 



Mclntosh, soils for the, 20 

 McNeill, A., quoted, 306 

 Mice in orchards, 82 

 Miscible oils, 198 

 Munson and Frost, fertilizer formula 



of, 105 



Newspaper advertising, 296 

 Nitrogen added by cover crops, 109 

 as a fertilizer, 102 

 forms of, 103 



Northern-grown nursery stock, 39 

 Northern Spy, soils for the, 19 

 Nozzles, 185 



Number of trees per acre, 60 

 Nursery stock, buying, 24 



in orchards, 75 

 trees, age of, 40 



southern- vs. northern- 

 grown, 39 



Old orchards, renovating, 212 

 Optimum temperature, 34 

 Orchard culture, 77 



implements, 91 



insects, 142 



lands, 8 



sites, 8 



Orchards, cropping, 66 

 Outlook for orcharding, 1 

 Over-production of fruit, 2 



Packages for apples, 260 



for cherries, 262 



for peaches, 261 



for pears, 261 



for plums, 262 



used in storage, 256 

 Packing apples, 262 



in barrels, 264 

 in boxes, 270 



fruit, 258 

 Paris-green, 198 

 Peach borer, 160 

 Peach leaf curl, 172 



method of bearing fruit in, 122 



packages for, 261 



scab, 172 



