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INDEX 



Connecticut fruit-growing, 68, 69, 



167-173- 

 Constitution of Society, 2. 

 Co-operation, importance of. 26, 74, 



82, 85, 130, I3I' 

 Cow peas, 34, 35- 36- 

 Curculio, 42, 57, 141- 

 Cultivating is fertilizing, 122. 

 Cultivator, Syracuse, 53. 

 Currants, 41, 54. 60. 



Elections of officers, 4, 6, 12, 18, 



28, 79. 

 Elms, 54. 



Evaporating plants, 83. 

 Exhibition premiums, 27, 148. 160, 



161. 

 Exhibition rules, 150 

 Exhibitions of fruits, 14, 25, 27, 



61-66, 100, 148-160. 



Farms, abandoned, 160. 

 Farms in New England saved, 31. 

 Fertilizers, commercial, 70, 124, 125. 

 Fertilizers, broadcast, 121. 

 Fertilizers plowed under, 121, 122. 

 Fertilizers for fruits, 41, 116, 125, 



126. 

 Field meetings, 22, 24, 25, 73, 74- 



163-166. 

 Finances of Society, 72, 73. 

 Foliage, importance, 43, 46, 71. 

 Foreign markets, 29. 

 Frost, protection from spring, 17, 22. 

 Fruit buds made hardy, 46, 71, 170. 

 Fruit canneries, 17. 

 Fruit crop reviews, 7, 9, 11, 13. I5. 



22, 68, 70, 71. 

 Fruit crop values, i, 9, i3> 15. 16, 



68, 69, 70, 71. 

 Fruit exhibits, 14, 25, 27, 61, 66, 



100, 148-160. 

 Fruit gardens, 17. 

 Fruit growing in Connecticut, 94^ 



144, 167-173- 

 Fruit handling, 92. 

 Fruit marketing, 95. 

 Fruit markets, 146, 147. 



Fruit planting machine, 59. 



Fruit packages, 71. 



Fruit quality, 146. 



Fruit retailing, 53. 



Fruit setting, 107-112. 



Fruit thinning, 49, 89, 93. 100. 



Fruit trees kept at their best, 44. 



Fruits, canned, 149, 158. 



Fruits, new, 27. 



Funds needed, 25. 



Fungi and rainfall, 102. 



Fungous diseases, 71. 



Gooseberries, 27, 41, 60. 



Grape crop of 1898, 104. 



Grape culture, 41, 60. 



Grape-hoe, 53. 



Grape market, 60. 



Grape profits, 50. 



Grape scale, 75, 76. 



Grape varieties, 39, 41, 50. 60, 140. 



Grapes, keeping, 140. 



Green manuring, 123, 124. 



Harrow, cutaway, 41, 42, 133. 

 Highways, 141. 

 Hoe, Morgan, 133. 

 Home fruit supply, 139- 

 Honeydew, 75. 

 Horticultural shows, 39. 



Insecticides, 57. 

 Insects, 56, 75, 143- 

 Institutes, 12, 14, 19. 55> 73- 136. 

 Irrigation, 60, 164, 171. 



Jail sentences and highways, 141. 

 Japan plums, spraying, 54, 57, 58 

 76, 77, 135. 149- 



Kernels, hard, 138. 

 Kerosene emulsion, 57, 75, 143. 

 Kerosene for scale, 58, 76, 77. 

 Kerosene, pumps for, 77. 

 Kerosene, spraying with, 76, 77. 



Lecanium, 76. 



Lime for peaches, 51. 



Lime in the soil, 117, 122. 



