CONTENTS Xi 



CHAPTER VII 



PAGES 



Maturities, Yields, and Multiplication 124-132 



Matunty- Tables 124 



Time required for maturity of different garden crops, reckoned 

 from the sowing of the seeds, 124 — Time required, from setting, 

 for fruit-plants to bear (for northern and central latitudes) 124 

 — Average profitable longevity of fruit-plants under high culture, 

 125. 



Yield-Tables 125 



Average full yields per acre of various horticultural crops, 125 — 

 Yields of farm crops, 127. 



Propagation- Tables . . 130 



Tabular statement of the ways in which plants are propagated, 

 130 — Particular methods by which various fruits are multiplied, 

 130 — Stocks commonly used for various fruits, 131 — How vege- 

 table crops are propagated, 131 — How farm crops are propa- 

 gated, 132. 



CHAPTER VIII 



Crops for Special Farm Practices. Hojie Storage and Keep- 

 ing OF Crops 133-149 



Forage Crops 133 



Roughage, 133 — Fodder, 133 — Soiling, 133 — Silage, 134. 



Soiling Crops 134 



Soiling crops adapted to northern New England, 135 — Time of 

 planting and feeding soiling crops, 135 — Soiling crops for Penn- 

 sylvania, 136 — Crops for partial soiling for Illinois during mid- 

 summer, 130 — Succession of soiling crops for dairy cows for 

 Wisconsin, 136 — Mississippi, 137 — Kansas, 137 — Dates for 

 planting and using soiling crops in western Oregon and western 

 Washington, 137 — Dairyman's rotation in middle latitudes, 137. 



Cover-Crops 138 



Catch-Crops 139 



Nurse-Crops 140 



Field Boot-Crops 140 



Methods of Keeping and Storing Fruits and Vegetables . . . 141 

 Apples, 141 — Cabbage, 142 — Celery, 142 — Crystallized or 

 glac6 fruit, 143 — Figs, 144 — Gooseberries, 144 — Grapes, 144 — 

 Onions, 146— Orange, 147 — Pears, 147 — Quince, 147 — Roots, 

 147— Squash, 147 —Sweet-potato, 148 — Tomato, 149. 

 Cold Storage 14fl 



