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INDEX 



Methods of applying spray materials, 

 92 

 of irrigating, 40 

 of sowing seeds, 81 

 of transplanting, 55 

 Mice, poisoning field, 223 

 Moisture, conservation of, 42 



conserving by thorough tillage, 



41 

 extremes of, 228 



how supplied to newly trans- 

 planted plants, 50 

 influence on quality of vege- 

 tables, 13 

 means of insuring, following 



transplanting, 51 

 necessary for germination, 74 

 requirements of onions, 162 

 supply, chapter on, 35 

 treatment of unplanted land to 

 conserve, 71 

 Multiplier onions, 180 

 Muskmelon growers waiting to load 

 their melons for shipment, 

 299 

 vine killed by rust, 230 



protected by spraying, 230 

 Muskmelons, 220 

 cultivation, 227 

 field of, 5 

 good hill of, 221 

 planting the seed, 223 

 preparations for planting, 222 

 soil for, 220 

 spraying, 94 

 thinning the plants, 224 

 time of planting, 221 

 transplanting, 225, 226 

 Mustard, 103 



Narrow-tooth cultivator, 40, 269 

 "New celery culture," 141 

 "New onion culture," 172 

 New potatoes, 186 

 New Zealand spinach, 155 

 Nicotine sulfate, 92 



for melon lice, 219 

 Nitrate of soda, 30 

 Nitrogen, sources of, 30 



Object of ventilation, 67 

 Okra, 215 



Old seed should be tested, 23 

 Onion culture, the new, 172 



three methods compared, 174 



tools used in, 165 



Onion culture, curmg shed and storage 

 house, 171 

 group, chapter on, 162 

 harvesting attachment for wheel 



hoe, 169 

 -like plants, 181 



plants, growing for transplant- 

 ing, 173 

 seed, sowing, 164 

 sets, 175 



curing in field, 179 

 growing, 177 



harvesting and curing, 178 

 planting, 176 

 size of, 175 

 starting into growth soon after 

 the harvest, 170 

 Onions, 162 



Bermuda, 172 



curing, 169 



from sets and from seed, 176 



care and disposition of 

 the crop, 177 

 good and poor, 167 

 green bunch, 179 

 green, for late use, 181 

 growing from seed, 163 

 growing from sets, 174 

 harvesting, 168 

 land for, 163 

 modern method of harvesting, 



170 

 multiplier, 180 

 perennial, 180 

 potato, 180 

 properly and improperly ripened, 



168 

 storage of, 311 



temperature and moisture re- 

 quirements of, 162 

 thinned and unthinned, 167 

 thinning, 166 

 tillage of, 165 

 topping, 169 

 transplanting, 172 

 tree, 180 

 types of, 172 

 weeding, 166 

 well-cured sample, 163 

 Outdoor cellar for storage of potatoes, 

 307 

 pit of beets opened in March, 309 

 Oyster plant, 148 



Packages, 284 



Packing shed for cantaloupes, 301 



