INDEX 



[References are to pages.} 



Fiske, John, quoted .... 34 



Flail 139 



Flax, spinning (picture of) . . 1<> 



Flower garden 330 



Flowers 161 



kinds of 1(53, 164 



parts of . 162 



Fly 45, 341 



Fodder 279 



Foliage 338 



Forage crops 276-289 



kinds of 276 



Forces of nature 2 



heredity and variation . . . 200 



in improvements 198 



regular action of 7 



Forcing boxes 225 



Foremen 22 



Forestry 322 



Formalin 394 



Fox 10 



Fox grape 199 



France 67 



Franklin, Benjamin, quoted . 46 



Frazer, Professor 182 



Free water 103 



Froebel, quoted 38 



Fryers 439 



Fungi 11, 212 



diseases due to 218 



Fungicide 337 



Furnace (in cellar) 88 



Furrow 143 



Galloway cattle 370 



Game animals 317 



Gapes 431 



Garden 221-228 



Garden tools 222 



Garfleld, James A., quoted . 61 



Gasolene engine 78 



General-purpose breeds of 



poultry 428 



Geometrical style of plant- 

 ing 330 



Geranium cutting . . . 180 



Germany 68, 78, 458 



Germ plasm .... 167-168, 176 



Gillette, Professor .... 33 



Ginseng 68 



Glumes . . 104 



Gold, Professor, quoted . . 34 



Goshawk 352 



Government and the 



farmer 54 



" Grades " of animals . . . 358 



Grafting 184 



cleft 184 



tongue 185 



Grain elevator 47, 91 



Grange 49 



Grape 198, 199, 302 



Grasses 278, 279 



Green's Vegetable Garden- 

 ing 225 



Grover, Edwin Osgood . . 42 



Ham 422 



Harrow, 



disk 142, 145 



spike-toothed 144 



spring-toothed 144 



Hartsalz 118 



Hay 276-282 



Hay loader 281 



Hay tedder 277 



Health, in country .... 16,45 



of country children .... 37 



Heat 105 



Heavy horses 398 



Henry's feed table .... 362 



Herbs 327 



Heredity ........ 7 



in animal breeding .... 356 



in plant breeding 200 



Hereford cattle 368 



Hessian fly, work of .... 336 



High cost of living .... 65 



" High grade " animals . . 358 



Hills, Professor G. L. ... 55 

 Hogs (see Swine) 



Hollyhocks 330 



Holstein-Friesian cattle . . 375 

 Home, country 

 (exercises for, at the end of 

 each chapter) 



as a nursery 36 



the main object of farming . 61 



work at the 39,446 



Homestead Law ..... 58 



Honey 348 



Horse barn . 396 



