INDEX 



425 



Planting Continued 



potatoes, 177 



red clover, 121 



soy beans, 136 



timothy, 162 



wheat, 71 

 Planting tables, flowers, 413 



vegetables, 414 

 Plowing, for alfalfa, 143 



for corn, 24 



vegetable garden, 354 

 Plum curculio, 270 

 Plums, culture, 314 



soil, 314 



varieties, 313 

 Pollination of corn, 23 

 Pomes, 301 



enemies of, 306 

 Potash, n, 15 

 Potatoes, 174 



arsenate of lead, 181 



blight, treatment for, 180 



breeding, 183 



classification, 174 



Colorado beetle, 180 



diseases, 178 



diseases, prevention of, 178 



exercises, 187 



feed for animals, 176 



growth, habits of, 175 



growth, period of, 175 



harvesting, 181 



history, 174 



home projects, 187 



improvement, 182 



insect control, 180 



methods of planting, 177 



new varieties, creating, 175 



Paris green, 181 



planting, 177 



scab, treatment for, 180 



score card, 185 



seed, 175 



seed bed, 177 



spray solutions, 179 



storage, 176, 182 



uses, 176 



Preparation of orchard soils, 246 

 Propagation, 305 



air layering, 2 1 5 



by cuttings, 218 



by division, 212 



Propagation Continued 



by layerage, 213 



by seeds, 201 



by separation, 210 



mound layering, 215 



of apples, 302 



of blackberries, 333 



of dewberries, 333 



of pears, 305 



of raspberries, 233 



serpentine layering, 215 



simple layering, 214 



tip layering, 214 

 Protein food, 135 

 Pruning bearing trees, 263 



functions, 261 



method, 264 



orchards, 260 



peaches, 311 



season, 263 



Quinces, 306 



Raspberries, 333^ 



culture, 333 



propagation, 333 



pruning, 334 



soil, 333 



varieties, 335 

 Rate of seeding, alfalfa, 146 



buckwheat, 109 



Kentucky blue grass, 168 



oats, 94 



peas, 130 



red clover, 121 



redtop, 172 



rye, 102 



wheat, 73 

 Red clover, 1 20 



adaptation, 120 



curing the hay, 122 



cutting stage, 122 



hay, 122 



mixture with timothy, 121 



rate of seeding, 121 



second cutting, 122 



seed, 123 



sowing seed, 121 



time of seeding, 121 



yield of seed, 123 

 Redtop, 171 



harvesting, 172 



