INDEX 



315 



Spraying an insurance, 206 



apparatus, 175 



campaign, the, 201 



cost of, 210 



in bloom, 149 



materials, 189 



old orchards, 227 



program for apples and pears, 



208 

 for peaches and plums, 209 



thoroughly, 204 

 Spring planting of trees, 53 



-tooth harrow for orchards, 94 

 Squash as a companion crop, 71 

 Starr, A. C., fertilizer formula of, 105 

 Stewart, Prof. John P., fertilizer for- 

 mula of, 105 



Stock solutions for Bordeaux, 192 

 Stone fruits, diseases of, 171 



insects attacking, 160 

 Storage, advantages of good, 245 



cost of, 248 



frost-proof, 253 



plants, 246 



refrigerated, 253 

 Storing fruit, 245 

 Strawberries as a companion crop, 



74 



Subsoil, 10 

 Sulfur, forms of, 193 

 Summer pruning, 126 



Table for barrel packing, 262 



for box packing, 271 

 Temperature for storage, 247 

 Tent-caterpillar, 153 

 Thinning fruit, 229 

 Tillage and moisture, 86 

 Time to prune, 137 



Time to spray, 204 

 Tobacco extracts, 200 

 Tompkins King, soils for the, 20 

 Tools for pruning, 129 

 Trees per acre, 60 

 Truck crops in orchards, 72 

 Turnips as a companion crop, 72 

 as a cover crop, 114 



United States laws, 307 



Varieties in old orchards, 215 



of fruits, 24 



number of, 30 



Vermorel type of nozzle, 185 

 Vetches as a cover crop, 116 

 V-shaped cultivation for orchards, 99 

 Vroom, George H., quoted, 306 



Wagener, soils for the, 20 

 Washing of soils in sod. 80 



prevented by cover 



crops, 107 

 Water drainage, 11 

 Weeds as a cover crop, 118 

 Whale oil soap, 199 

 Wilder, H. J., quoted, 15 

 Windbreaks, 13 

 trees for, 14 



Windfalls in sod orchards, 80 

 Window displays for advertising, 296 

 Winter injury of roots prevented by 



cover crops, 111 

 Witch grass in orchards, 95 

 Wounds, dressings for, 140 

 Wrapping fruit in storage, 257 

 Wraps for fruit, 289 



Young trees, method of pruning, 135 



