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INDEX 



Iodine test for starch, 13 

 Irrigation of the garden, 192 

 Italian bees, 322 



Jersey cattle, 285, 287 

 Journal ruling for records, 365 

 Judging corn, rules for, 134, 139 



cattle, 291, 292 



horses, 275, 277 



sheep, 299 



Kaffir for soiling, 100, 102 

 Keeping farm accounts, 364, 365 

 Kernels of corn, 134, 137 

 Kerosene emulsions, 222, 395, 396 

 Kinds of forest trees, 182, 183, 189, 



190 

 King system of ventilation, 349, 



350 



Ladders used in picking fruit, 218 

 Lady-beetle, 239, 240 

 Lambs, winter or hot-house, 192 

 Land drainage, chapter on, 67, 410 



measuring, 401 

 Landscape gardening, 202 

 Lard type of swine, 301 

 Larva of insects, 221, 223, 224 

 Lattice shade for nurseries, 183 

 Laws of breeding, 259 



protecting birds, 244 

 Layering, tip, mound, vine, 41 

 Leaf curl of peach, 248, 250 

 skin of, 11 

 structure, 10 



Lean type of swine, 301, 302 

 Leaves, chlorophyl in, 11 

 moisture from, 10, 11 

 of plants, 10 

 openings in, 11 

 stomates in, 11, 12 

 Legal milk, 352 



weights of grain, 399 

 Leghorn hen, 306 

 Legumes denned, 102, 193 

 gather nitrogen, 103 

 learning, 103 

 Leicester sheep, 293 

 Lens, use of, in examining seeds, 24 

 Life, duration of, 20 



of insects, 223 

 Light horses, 263, 267, 268 



see Sunlif/ht 

 Lime and sour soil, 78 

 and scab, 252 

 benefits of, 77 

 for pastures, 109 

 Lime in soil, 55, 58, 59 

 slacking, 77 

 sulfur, 247, 250. 256, 258 



forms of, 397, 398 

 water, 77 



Liming for alfalfa, 112, 116 

 Lincoln sheep, 294 

 Linseed meal. 336 

 Little-peach diseases, 249, 252 

 Loam, 52, 54, 56, 58, 59, 63 

 Loose smut of oats. 254 

 Loss from feeds, 331 



Macadam roads, 372 

 Maggot of fly, 234 

 Malaria mosquitoes, 226, 227 

 Manure and scab, 235 

 care of, 80 

 composition of, 408 

 composts, 82 

 for pastures, 109 

 green, .55, 72, 75, 76 

 heating of, 79 

 leaching of, 79 

 loss in, 79 

 spreading, 80, 81, 82 

 using, 81 

 VcJue of, 78, 79 

 Mapping the farm, 362 



school grounds, 363 

 Market, fruit ready for, 218 

 garden crops, 97 

 milk, form of, 351, 352 

 Marl, 52 

 Masses of trees and shrubs, 203, 



204, 205 



Matted row system, 214, 215 

 Measure, cubic, and land, 401 



of a pound of fsed, 405 

 Meat breeds of chickens, 306, 308 

 Men needed in farming, 361 

 Merino sheep, 296, 297 

 Metamorphosis, see Changes 

 Middlings of wheat, 335 

 Milk as food, 344 

 bacteria in, 347 

 bad flavor in, 347 

 composition of, 345 

 fats in, 345 

 minerals in, 346 

 pails, 349, 350 

 pure, 348 . 



showing difference in, 346 

 sugar in, 346 

 varies naturally, 346 

 Millets for soiling, 99 

 Mill feeds, 335 

 Mineral matter, 330 

 in milk, 346 

 plants, 16 



Mixed planting, reasons for, 185 

 Modern agricultural teachings, 368 

 Modified milk, 353 

 Moisture increasing in soil, 64 

 saving in soil, 64, 65 

 used by plants, 62 

 Morgan horse, 270 

 Mosquitoes, 224, 225 

 malaria. 226, 227 

 yellow fever. 227, 228 

 Moth, clothes, 230 



grain, 230, 231 

 MouMboards, forms of, 74 

 Moulting of insects. 222 

 Mouth parts of insects, 220 

 Movement of moisture, 62 

 Mowing pastures, 109, 110 

 Muck, 55 

 Mulch, effect of, 65 



dust, 65 



Mules, classes of, 268 

 Mutations defined, 260 



