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INDEX 



Leaf structure, 9 



Legumes, 375 



assimilation of nitrogen, 379 

 bacterial inoculation, 381 

 characteristics, 307 

 composition of, 377 

 desmodium or Florida beggar 



weed, 376 



effect on soil fertility, 378 

 lespedeza or Japan clover, 376 

 life of forage plants, 314 

 lime requirement, 383 

 lupinus or lupines, 376 

 medicago or alfalfa group, 375 

 melilotus or sweet clover, 376 

 phaseolus or bean group, 376 

 pisum or pea group, 376 

 roots of, 377 

 soils for, 382 

 soja or soy bean, 376 

 stizo lobium or velvet bean, 376 

 time of harvesting, 379 

 trifolium or clover group, 375 

 vica or vetches, 376 



Lime, 38 



for potatoes, 268 



Listing corn, 69 

 wheat, 130 



Manure, amount made by animals, 38 



caring for, 39 



for grass, 340 



value of, 399 

 Market grades, 484 

 cotton, 233 

 hay and straw, 484 

 oats, 171 

 wheat, 133 

 Market types of potatoes, 263 



sweet potatoes, 289 

 Marketing tobacco, 475 

 Meadow fescue, 360 



mixtures, 317 



Meadows, fertilizers for, 341 

 Millets, 369 



broom-corn, 372 



culture of, 371 



distribution of, 369 



feeding value, 372 



foxtail, 369 



German, 370 



Hungarian, 370 



Japanese barnyard, 372 



kinds of, 369 

 Milo maize, 247 



Nitrogen, fixed by legumes, 32 



for cotton, 223 



source of, 31 

 Nurse crops, 326 



Oats, as a nurse crop, 164 



classification, 146 



cultivation of, 165 



culture of, 157 



description of plant, 149 



diseases and insects, 170 



distribution of groups, 148 



fertilizer for, 158 



grain, 151 



harvesting, 167 



hulless, 149 



market grades, 171, 495 



method of sowing, 165 



percentage of hull, 152 



production, 3, 141 



proportion of grain to straw, 

 154 



score card for, 172 



soils for, 158 



time of seeding, 161 



treatment for smut, 160 



weight per bushel, 153 

 Oat-grass, 360 

 Orchard-grass, 350 

 Organic matter, 32 

 Osmosis, 7 



Palatability of grasses, 312 

 Pasture mixtures, 318 

 permanent, 320 

 temporary, 319 

 Pasturing alfalfa, 394 

 Pea weevil, 432 

 Peanuts, 438 



classification, 440 



composition, 441 



fertilizers for, 442 



harvesting, 444 



insects and diseases, 447 



production, 439 

 Pearl millet, 372 

 Peas, field, 430 

 Perennial rye-grass, 362 

 Permanent grasses, 315 

 Plants, assimilation, 10 



botanical groups, 2 



classification by use, 2 



composition of, 7 



early culture, 1 



elements required for growth, 5 



