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INDEX 



Cover crop, buckwheat as a, 114 

 cow peas as a, 114 

 crimson clover as a, 116 

 mammoth red clover as a, 



li7 

 peas as a, 119 

 rape as a, 115 

 red clover as a, 117 

 rye as a, 116 

 soybeans as a, 118 

 turnips as a, 114 

 vetches as a, 117 

 weeds as a, 119 

 crops, 109 



best crops to use, 113 

 in old orchards, 226 

 plowing under, 113 

 time to sow, 90 

 use of, to add humus, 110 

 nitrogen. 111 

 to check growth 110 

 to hold snow, 113 

 to prevent washing, 109 

 to protect windfalls, 102 

 to take up plant food 

 111 

 Cow peas as a cover crop, 114 

 Cropping the orchard, 66 

 Cultivating old orchards, 225 

 Cultivation, advantages of, 81 

 for orchards, 95 

 methods of, 83 

 time to stop, 87 

 Culture of orchards, 77 

 Currants as a companion crop, 73 

 Curcuho apple, 151 

 plum, 151, 161 

 Cutaway harrow for orchards, 94 



Damage during cultivation, 88 

 Disc harrowing instead of plowing, 85 



harrows for orchards, 94 



plow for orchards, 93 



type of nozzles, 185 

 Diseases of fruit trees, 163 



pome fruits, 165 



stone fruits, 171 

 Distances for planting, 58 

 table of, 59 

 Double-action hand pump, 180 

 Drainage, 11 

 Dressing for wounds, 140 

 Drew, George A., fertilizer formula 



of, 105 

 Dry sprays vs. liquid, 190 



Experiments in fertilizers, 101 

 Extension rod for spraying, 187 



Fall pippin, soils for, 20 

 plowing, 45 



advantages of, 84 

 setting of trees, 53 

 Fertihty of soils, 81 

 Fertilizer, nitrogen as a, 102 

 phosphoric acid as a, 103 

 potash as a, 102 

 Fertilizers, application of, 106 

 formulas for, 105 

 for old orchards, 223 

 need of, 101 

 used by apples, 100 

 Fillers, 61 

 Five blight of pears, apples and 



quinces, 169 

 Fly-speck disease of apples, 169 

 Frost-proof storage, 253 

 Fruit-bearing and growth, 127 

 method of, in apple, 121 

 in cherry, 125 

 in peach, 123 

 in pear, 121 

 in plum, 125 

 in quince, 125 

 Fruit, keeping quality of, 254 



protection by cover crop, 112 

 storage of, 245 

 storage types of, 250 

 trees, diseases of, 163 

 wraps for advertising, 289 

 Fungicides, action of, 165 



principal kinds, 191 

 Fungus, types of, 163 



Gang plow for orchards, 92 



Gas sprayer, 181 



General market, the, 281 



Gooseberries in orchards, 73 



Grades of apples, 258 



Grades of trees, 42 



Grading fruit, 258 



Grafting old orchards, 220 



Grains in orchards, 75 



Grape-hoe for orchards, 99 



Gravenstein, soils for, 21 



Greening, Rhode Island, soils for, 18 



Grimes Golden, soils for, 20 



Growth and fruit-bearing, 127 



and pruning, 126 

 Growth checked by cover crops, 

 109 



