420 



INDEX 



Bordeaux mixture, 233, 258,395, 396 



Bottling milk and cream, 351 



Boys' and girls' clubs, 6 



Brahma hen, 308 



Bran, 335 



Breed defined, 259 



Breeding, laws of, 259 



Breeds, beef, 279 



keeping pure, 259 



of bees, 322 



of horses, 263 



sheep, 293, 294, 296 



swine, 301. 302, 304 

 Brewers' grains, 336 

 Brooder houses, 320 

 Brown rot of peach, 247, 248 



Swiss cattle, 284, 285 

 Budding apple trees, 37 



peaches and plums, 38, 39, 40 



sticks, 37, 39 

 Bud selection, 23 

 Buds, fruit, 210, 212 

 Bulletins, Farmers', how to secure 



3, 390 



how to use, 3 

 referred to, see end of 



each chapter 

 Bushel measure, 401 

 Business of farming, 360 



success, elements of, 363 

 Buttermilk, 353, 354, 356, 359 

 Butts of corn, 137 

 Buying feeds, 342 

 By-products and mill feeds, 335, 

 337 



Cab horses, 266 



Cables, how made. 376 



Calf feeding, 337 



iCalifornia, school gardening in, 192 



Calves, dairy, 285 



feed for. 406 



Cambium layer of wood, 36 

 Capillary moisture, 60-64 



experiment, 64 

 Carbohydrates, 329 



and fat in feeds, 405 

 Carbon bi-sulfide, 231, 400 



dioxide, 13, 14 



in plants, 13, 14 

 Carniolan bees, 322 

 Casein of milk, 345 

 Catalo hybrid cattle, 282 

 Catch crops, 90, 91 

 Caterpillar-hunting beetle, 239 

 Caterpillars, 224, 225 

 Cattle, chapter on, 279 



feed for, 406 



judging. 289, 290 



points of, shown, 289 



products, chapter on, 344 



types of, 279 

 Caucasian bees. 322 

 Cedar apple, 251. 252 

 Cellulose, 329 

 Cereal crops, 97 

 Certified milk, 352 

 Changes in insects, 223 

 Cheese-making, 355 



Chester white swine, 201, 302 

 Cheviot sheep, 294, 295, 296 

 Chick creep, 388 

 Chicken houses, 310, 312 

 inside of, 311 

 location of, 311 

 plan for, 312 

 varieties, study of, 309 



to keep, 309 



Chickens, varieties of, 306-309 

 Chinch bug, 231 

 Chlorophyl, 11, 12 

 Cholera, hog, 304 

 Churning, steps in, 354 

 Cicada captured, 241 

 Clayey soil, 52, 53, 54, 58, 59, 63 

 Cleaning seed, 22 

 Cleveland Bay horses, 266 

 Clothes moth, 230 

 Clover, alsike, 106 



compared with standard, 340, 



341 



crimson, 91, 106 

 for soiling, 99 

 in rotation, 92, 93 

 methods of starting, 107 

 nodules, 103, 104 

 red, 106 



when to cut. 107 

 white, 106 

 Clubs, corn, 151, 152 

 Clydesdales, 265 

 Coach horses described, 266 

 Coarse wooled sheep, 293 

 Cob of corn, 13'J 

 Cocoon, 223, 225 

 Codling-moth, 232, 233 



spraying for, 256, 257, 



258 



Cold frame, 194, 195, 196 

 Colluvial soil, 51 

 Colony of bees, 323 

 Column system of accounts, 364, 



365 



Commercial fertilizers, 83 

 Community centre, 6 

 Composition of animals, 327 

 corn, 331 

 feeds, 406 



fertilizers, 402, 404 

 manures, 407 

 milk, 345, 346, 347 

 Composts of manure, 82, 83 

 Concentrated feeds, 332, 334, 335. 



336 



Concrete roads, 372 

 Condensed milk, 352 

 Contrasts in farming, 361 

 Cooling milk, 350 

 Copper sulfate. 400 

 Coppice growth of trees, 189 

 Corn after oats and peas, 96 

 as feed, 334 

 butts, 137 

 chapter on, 133 

 clubs, 150, 151, 152 

 cob, 135 



composition of, 331 

 crop, 133 



