xviii INDEX 



Manure: as a fertilizer, 316; green manuring, 321; preventing 



loss from, 319. 

 Meadows: care of, 200; chapter on, 198; grasses for, 189; weeds 



in, 202. 

 Milk: producing clean, 364; test of dairy cows, 356. 



Nitrogen: commercial, as fertilizer, 423; from legumes, 159. 

 Nuts: almond, the, 237; demonstrations, 239; farming in South 



and West, 237; and fruits, chapter on, 224; pecan, the, 



238; walnut, the English, 238. 



Oats: chapter on, 90; demonstrations, 104; enemies and dis- 

 eases, 100; harvesting, 98; importance of crop, 90; methods 

 of seeding, 96; play contests, 104; raising the crop, 95; 

 region, 91; treating the seed, 97; types of, 93; yield, 91. 



Olive, 235. 



Orange: region of, 227; the, 226; varieties, 228. 



Paris green spray, 253. 



Pastures: care -of, 204; chapter on, 198; grasses for, 203. 



Peaches and pears, 236. 



Peanut: section on, 195; uses of, 195. 



Phosphorus fertilizers, 324. 



Pineapple, 235. 



Play contests: with cattle, 373; corn, 21; cotton, 118; dry- 

 farming, 55; fruit and nut, 240; with hogs, 416; with 

 horses, 394; irrigation, 72; oat and wheat, 1Q4; potato, 

 133; poultry, 453; roads, 508; with sheep, 426; soil, 342; 

 sugar, 155; tomato, 248; vegetable, 223. 



Potassium fertilizers, 324. 



Potatoes: chapter on, 120; club projects, 133; demonstrations, 

 131; enemies of, 129; the plant, 120; play contests, 133; 

 producing the crop, 121; region of, 122; selection of seed, 

 125; storing, 124. 



Poultry: breeds of, 431; chapter on, 428; club projects, 454; 

 demonstrations, 452; diseases of, 447; feeding, 439; hatch- 

 ing systems, 436; housing, 444; play contests, 453; produc- 

 ing, 435; profits from, 430; region, 429; in the South, 37. 



Rag-doll seed tester, picture of testing, 13. 



Rainfall: average amount of, 44; and farm management, 44; 

 seasonable distribution of, 57. 



Ration: for chickens, 440; for milk cows, 361; for hogs, 408; 

 for work horses, 390; for sheep, 423. 



Reclamation of arid land, history of, 59. 



Resin-lime spray, 255. 



Roads: chapter on, 498; club projects, 508; , construction of, 

 earth, 503; demonstrations, 506; location of, 500; main- 

 tenance of, 504; play contests, 508; types of, 500. 



Rope tying: club projects, 496; play contests, 495: section on, 

 491. 



