INDEX 



423 



Full-blood, see Pure-bred 

 Fungicides, 258, 395 



Gallon measure, 402 

 Galloway cattle, 281 

 Gang plow, 74 

 Garden crops, 97 



marker, 387 



planning, 191, 192 



plants, setting, 193, 194 

 Gardening, chapter on, 191, 413 



landscape, 202 



ornamental, 202 



school, 198-202 



success in, 191 



vegetable, 191 

 Gate latch, 387 

 German coach horses, 267 



black bees, 322 

 General-purpose chickens, 306, 308 



horses, 26'3 



Ginseng, shelter for, 183 

 Glaciers as soil formers, 49, 50 

 Gluten meal, 335 

 Good roads, 371 

 Gooseberries, 216, 217 

 Grades defined, 260 



high, 261 

 Grafting, cleft, 40, 41 



wax, making, 37 

 Grain, drill, 156 



heads of, 161 



moth, 230, 231 



remedy for, 231 



samples of, 159 



sifting and fanning, 22 



small, 154 



smut, 253, 254, 255 

 Grapes, 216, 217 

 Grass seed, good and poor, 25 

 Grasses for soiling, 99 

 Gravel, 59, 63 

 Green crops as manures, 75 



forage crops, 332 



manure, 56 



benefits of, 76 

 for potatoes, 164 

 planning for, 76 

 plowing under, 72 

 use of, 76 

 Grit boxes, 313 

 Ground beetle, 239 

 Grub of beetle, 224 

 Guard cells, 12 

 Guernseys, 286, 287 



Hackney horses, 267 

 Halter, rope, 382 

 Hampshire sheep, 294, 295 



swine, 302 



Hardy vegetables, 193 

 Harrowing, effect of, 64, 65 



pastures, 109 

 Harrow, spike-toothed, 66 

 Harvesting corn, 145, 146, 147 



grain, 156, 157, 158 



potatoes, 170, 171 



sweet potatoes, 173 

 Hawks, 241, 242 

 Hay as feed, 332 



Hay caps for alfalfa, 114 

 fertilizers for, 405 

 in rotation, 93 



measure of, 401 

 Hayrack lifter, 385 

 Hay-stacking machine, 115 

 Heading, see Pruning 

 Hedge-row system, 214, 215 

 Henry, W. A., credit given, 406 

 Heredity, law of, 259 

 Herefords, 280, 281, 289 

 Highways in United States, 371 

 Hill-row method, 214, 215 

 Hives, 323, 325 

 Hog cholera, 304 

 Holstein-Friesians, 286, 288 

 Holstein, pedigree of, 400 

 Home plot for school garden, 202 

 Honey-bees, 239 



poisoning, 256 



-making, 323 



Hoppers for chickens, 313, 314 

 Horses, age of, 273 



care of, 271 



chapter on, 262, 414 



examining in barn, 271, 272 



feed for, 406 



inspecting, 271, 272 



judging, 274 



measurements of, 273 



origin of, in America, 262 



points of, shown 274 



pure breeds of, 263 



types of, 263 



unsoundness of, 273 

 Horticultural crops, 97 

 Horticulture defined, 191 

 Hot-bed, 194, 195, 196, 199 



for sweet potatoes, 172 



plants from, 173 

 Houdon chicks, 310 

 House fly, 332, 333 



for chickens, 310 



for pigs, 304 

 Humus, 55, 58, 59, 63 

 Husking and shredding machines, 



147 

 Hygroscopic moisture, 60, 61 



Improvement, kinds of, 72 



of animals, 259, 414 



of soils, 71, 410 

 Impurities of seeds, 28 

 Incubator, running an, 317, 318 

 Inoculation of soils, 112 

 Insecticides, 220, 221, 258, 395 

 Insects, beneficial, 239 



breathing of. 222 



cages for, 225, 226 



changes of, 223 



chapter on, 220, 414 



enemies, 225 



feeding of, 220 



growth of, 222, 223 



moulting of, 222 



mounting of, 226 



skeleton of, 223 



specimens of, 238 



structure of, 220 

 Inventory, an, 366, 367 



