INDEX 



Acme harrow, 95 

 Advertising, 287 



by recipes, 294 



by samples, 295 



by window displays, 296 

 Age of nursery trees, 40 

 Animals, danger to, from spraying, 



206 

 Aphis, 149 



apple, 149 



cherry, 161 

 Apple barrel, 260 



presses, 263 



blotch, 167 



borers, 155 



box, 260 



canker, 168 



curculio, 151 



fly-speck disease, 169 



insects, 144 



maggot, 154 



method of bearing, 120 



rust, 167 



scab, 165 



sooty blotch, 169 

 Apples, grades of, 258 



packing in barrels, 264 

 in laoxes, 270 

 Asparagus as a companion crop, 75 

 Aspect of orchard lands, 12 

 Atmospheric drainage, 12 

 Atomic sulphur, 197 



Baldwin soils, 16 



Barley as a cover croj), 115 



Barrel, apple, 260 



pump, 177 

 Beans as a companion crop, 71 

 Bearing, methods of fruit, 119 



trees, pruning, 136 

 Blackberries as a comi)anion crop, 75 

 Black-knot of plums, 173 

 Blister mite, 158 

 Blossoming period, spraying during, 



149 

 Blotch of apples, 167 

 Bordeaux mixture, 191 



nozzle, 185 



Borer, apple, 155 



peach, 160 



pin, 157 



shot-hole, 157 

 Borers in orchards, 82 

 Brown rot of plums, peaches and 



cherries, 171 

 Buckwheat as a companion crop, 73 



as a cover crop, 113 

 Bud moth, 151 

 Bulletin boards, 287 



Cabbage as a companion crop, 71 

 Canadian laws, 300 

 Canker, apple, 168 



worms, 152 

 Census figures regarding apples, 2 

 Cherry, method of fruit-bearing, 124 



packages for, 262 

 Clover, common red, as a cover crop, 

 116 

 crimson, as a cover crop, 116 

 mammoth red, as a cover crop, 



116 

 to add nitrogen, 110 

 Codling moth, 147 

 Color of fruit, 27 



in sod orchards, 79 

 Commercial lime-sulfur solutions, 194 

 Commission merchants, laws regu- 

 lating, 309 

 Companion crops for orchards, 67 

 good, 71 

 list of, 70 

 poor, 75 

 Concentrated lime-sulfur, home- 

 made, 195 

 Conserving moisture, 81 

 Contact insecticides, 198 

 Cooperative marketing, 283 

 Copper salts for sprays, 190 



sulfate, 191 

 Corn as a companion crop, 73 

 Cost of orchard, 63 

 of spraying, 210 

 of storage, 248 

 of thinning fruit, 233 

 Cover crop, barley as a, 115 



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