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INDEX 



Duroc-Jersey swine, 301, 302 

 Dust boxes for hens, 313 

 mulch, 65, 66 



Ear-row method, 23 

 Earth roads, 373 

 Egg breeds, 306, 307 



packing, 318, 319 



problems, 220 



records, 307 



testing, 319 

 Eggs, preserving, 320 



weight of, 318 



yolk of, 317 



English shire horses, 265 

 Ensilage, 147, 148, 333 

 Essentials in feeds, 328 

 Evergreens, how to use, 204, 205 

 Exercise, frequent in all chapters, 

 see special topics, 409 



referred to, 5 

 Experiment stations, list of, 393, 



394 

 Experiment for school gardens, 200, 



201, 202 

 Eyes of insects, 220 



Fallow, bare, 90 

 Fanning grain, 22 

 Farm accounts, 364, 365 



choice in buying, 369 



crops, chapter on, 97, 411 



equipment, repair of, 383 



forest planting, 181, 182 



getting started on, 368 



going in debt, 369 



management, section on, 360 



mapping the, 362 



need for better management, 

 367 



renting plan, 368 



school, plan of, 194 



stepping stone, a, 368 



the value of, 367 

 Farmer, a salesman, 365 

 Farmers' bulletins, see Bulletins 

 Farming, best men needed in, 361 



causes for changes in, 360 



changes in, 360 



contrasts, 361 



results of changes in, 361 



special and general, 88 



system in, 362 

 Fat in feeds, 330 

 Fats in milk, 345 

 Feed, for pigs, 303, 304 



related to purpose, 338 



succulent, 316, 317 



troughs for poultry, 313, 314 

 Feeding beef cattle, 337 



for winter eggs, 315 



of insects, 220 



plants, 83 



principles of, 337 



standards, 339, 406 

 Feeding, systems for poultry, 314, 

 315 



young animals, 339 

 Feeds, analysis of, 330 



and feeding, 327, 416 



Feeds, buying, 342 



change to tissue, 331 



digestibility, table of, 405 



essentials in, 328 



fertility in, 405 



list of, 405 

 Fermented milk, 353 

 Fertility in feeds, table of, 405 

 Fertilizer equivalents, 404 



formulas, 402, 404 



in feeds, 342 

 Fertilizers, collection of, 80 



commercial, 83-87 



for corn, 143 



for pastures, 109 



for special crops, 402, 404 



high grade, 85, 86 



low grade, 85, 86 



problems on, 87 



value of, 85 

 Fibre crops, 97 

 Field records, 365 

 Fillers in orchards, 212 

 Film moisture in soils, 60, 61 

 Fine wooled sheep, 293, 296, 297 

 Flax, fibre, 159, 160, 161 



growing, 160 



harvesting, 160 



where grown, 160 

 Flies carry disease, 229 



life of, 228, 229 



remedies for, 229, 230 



trap for, 387 

 Flight of insects, 220 

 Flint corn, 100, 101, 133 

 Floats, 84 

 Flowers, imperfect, 18 



of strawberry, 18 



parts of, 19 



perfect, 17 



pollination of, 18, 19 



purpose of, 17 

 Food value of milk. 345 

 Forage crops, 97, 98 



for midsummer, 101 

 Forest care and management, 189 



influences, 179, 180, 181 



planting, 178-182 



trees, distances. 184. 186 

 mixed plantings, 185 

 nurseries, 183 

 propagation of, 182 

 shade, 183 



Forestry, chapter on, 178, 413 

 Formalin for grain, 254 



potatoes, 253 



Fountains, drinking, 313, 315 

 Free water in soils. 60, 61, 62 

 French coach horses, 266, 267 



Merinos, 297 

 Frost and rainfall, 197 



vegetables injured by, 193 

 Fruit buds, 210, 212 



crop, care of, 218 



crops, 98 



planting, distances for, 407 



production, chapter on, 206, 

 413 



trees, raising of, 35 

 Fruits small, 216 



