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INDEX. 



Alfalfa- 

 liming, 476. 

 meal, 360. 



meal and bran in Pennsyl- 

 vania, 417. 

 meal for cows, 390. 

 meal, making, 417. 

 melilotus prepares for, 494. 

 midsummer seeding-, 485. 

 moisture a factor in growing, 



249. 



not a grass, 84. 

 nurse-crops for, 201. 

 oats with, 202. 

 orchard grass and, 275. 

 pasture, 323. 

 pasture for horses, 345. 

 pasturing with hogs, 404. 

 Peruvian, 83. 

 plant food from, 37. 

 plowing for, 191. 

 potash for, 511. 

 poultry and, 415. 

 prairie dogs in, 429. 

 profits from, 247. 

 protein in, 358. 

 rain and haymaking, 309. 

 red clover and, 268. 

 rich soils and, 153. 

 rock phosphate for, 183. 

 roots, 38, 85, 103, 120, 139. 

 roots in irrigated soils, 289. 

 roots, nodules on, 165. 

 root rot, 266. 

 second cutting of, 90. 

 seed, adulteration of, 441. 



coating with earth, 231. 



drilling in the, 220. 



examine samples of, 442. 



growing, 430. 



number of in bushel, 216. 



vitality of, 475. 



where grown, 99. 

 seeding, 199, 207. 



after wheat, 209. 



in fall, 204. 



rate of, 216. 



thick and thin, 218. 



with a drill, 197. 



work after, 199. 

 sheds for hay, 466. 

 sheep and, 392. 

 silage for cows, 391. 

 siloing, 354. 

 sod, plowing, 419. 

 soiling, 323. 

 soiling for hogs, 334. 

 soiling for horses, 331. 

 soiling for sheep, 332. 

 soiling weakens, 89. 

 soils. 104. 



sowing on irrigable land, 284. 

 sowing, summary of, 476. 

 sowing the seed, 219. 

 spring sowing, 196. 

 spring sowing, plowing for, 



Alfalfa 



spring-sown, handling, 488. 



spring or summer seeding, 

 483. 



Spain and, 52. 



stacking outdoors, 317. 



stand of, getting .a, 101. 



stock on fields of, 296. 



summer sowing, 205. 



sweet clover in, 261. 



temperature extremes and, 87. 



tiling land for, 103. 



time to cut, 293. 



timothy in, 268. 



transplanting, 519. 



treading, danger of, 92. 



Turkestan, 97. 



types of, 80. 



varieties of, 78. 



water used by, 250. 



weeds in, 40, 258. 



weeds kill, 260. 



wheat and, 210. 



when to cut, 88, 200. 



wild in Montana, 105. 



winter-killing of, 297. 



yields of, 249. 



yields of hay, 41. 



yields of under irrigation, 



251. 

 American Seeding Machine Co., 



186. 



Ants in alfalfa, 427. 

 Argentina, alfalfa in, 348. 

 Arkansas, alfalfa in, 75. 

 Arlington, farm at, 147. 

 Ashes, wood, for potash, 189. 



Bacteria, about, 226. 



Bacteria, conditions favoring, 



232. 



Bacteria for alfalfa, 224. 

 Bacteria, how to get, 229. 

 Bacteria, work of. 227. 

 Baling alfalfa, 356. 

 Baling, shed for, 468. 

 Barley hay, 42, 200. 

 Barley hay from alfalfa land, 



156. 

 Barley, spring, alfalfa after, 



212. 



Barns for hay, 466. 

 Barn, the open-center hay, 308. 

 Basic slag, 507. 

 Basic slag, analysis of, 135. 

 Basic slag for soils, 176. 

 Bees and alfalfa. 345. 

 Benitz, John, quoted, 349. 

 Bicknell, Frank W., quoted, 348. 

 Bierwagen, Daniel, quoted, 513. 

 Blair, G. P., mentioned. 500. 

 Blinn, P. K., quoted, 422, 463. 

 Bloat, curing, 341. 

 Bloat, danger from, 338. 

 Bloat from alfalfa, 10. 

 Bluegrass and alfalfa. 273. 

 Bluegrass, English, 276. 



