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Feeding floor, 403. 



Fertility: conserving- in dry-farming, 51; and crop rotation, 327. 



Fertilization of plants, cross, 5. 



Fertilizers: alfalfa as a, 180; barnyard manure as, 316; com- 

 mercial, 323; for cotton, 111; green crops as, 322; legumes 

 as, 159; in southern farming, 37. 



Foot-and mouth disease: in cattle, 372; prevention of, 373. 



Forage crops: alfalfa as a, 179; club projects, 161; demonstra- 

 tions, 161; importance of, 158; regions, 158. 



Fruit: chapter on, 224; citrus orchards, 225; citrus regions, 

 226; citrus, 232; classification for canning, 272; cultivation 

 of the citrus, 230; demonstrations, 239; garden, the, 224; 



trapefruit, 229; lemons, 229; limes, 230; marketing citrus, 

 32; olive, the, 235; oranges, 226; peaches and pears, 236; 

 pineapple, the, 235; picking and packing citrus, 232. 

 Fungicides, 249. 



Grapefruit, the, 229. 

 Grasses, meadow, 1S9. 

 Grasshoppers, 86. 



Harvesting: alfalfa, 185; clover,- 171; oats, 98; tobacco, 140; 

 wheat, 81. 



Hessian fly, the, 86. 



Hogs: breeds of, 397; care of, 400; chapter on, 396; demon- 

 strations, 416; diseases of, 410; feeding, 405; regions, 396. 



Home: beautifying the grounds, 468; the farm, 462; grounds 

 and wood lot, 468; labor-saving devices in, 464. 



Horses: breeds of, 381; care of, 387; chapter on. 376; classes 

 of, 377; club projects, 394; demonstrations with, 393; de- 

 fects in, 385; feeding, 389; important regions of, 376; 

 judging, 385; play contests with, 394. 



Horticulture, section on, 207. 



Hotbed: structure of, 215; use of, 216, 



Humus: and capillary water, 333; in soil, 304. 



Inoculation, for alfalfa, 183. 



Insecticides, 249. 



Irrigation: chapter on, 56; club projects, 72; crop management 

 under, 66; dangers of over, 68; demonstration, 71; over- 

 head, 64; play contests, 72; sub-surface, 62; surface. 60; 

 systems of, 60; in West, 42. 



Kerosene emulsion, 255. 



Legumes: chapter on, 190; forage, 157; and soil nitrogen, 159. 



Lemon, 229. 



Lime: forms of, 326; use of on soils, 325. 



^Lime-sulphur- spray, 250. 



