INDEX 



425 



Native stock, 261 



Nitrate of soda, 84, 86, 402, 404 



Nitrogen, 402. 404 



fertil zers, 83 



in feeds, 405 



manures, 407 

 Nodules on legumes, 103, 104 



studying, 113 

 Nozzles for spraying, 357 

 Nutrients, 332 

 Nutritive ratios, 340 

 Nymph stage of insects, 225 



Oat smut, treatment, 254, 255 

 Oats, 156, 157, 158 



and grain ^or soiling, 101 

 hay* 100 



for peas, 99, 100 

 in rotation, 95 



as feed, 335 



fertilizers for, 402 



in rotation, 92, 93 

 Oil meal, 336 



presence of, 330 

 Olericulture defined, 191 

 Ornamental chickens. 306, 309 



gardening, 202, 203 



planting, 188 

 Orchard cover crops, 92, 211 



culture, 211, 213 



site and soils, 206, 207 



trees, pruning, 207, 208 

 setting, 207 

 when to plant, 207 

 Osmosis defined, 14 



use of, 14 



with egg, 15 



with potato, 15 

 Owls, 342 



Oxford sheep, 294, 295 

 Oxygen in plants, 13, 14 



and air, 16, 17 



Pageants, 7 



Palatnbllity of feed, 341, 342 

 Parasites of insects, 240 

 Paris green, 258, 395 

 Pasture, in rotation, 93 



plants, 108 



system, 101 

 Pastures, bad conditions in, 109 



how to keep, 109, 110 



permanent, 108 

 Peach culture, 211 



leaf curl, 248, 250 



scab, 247 



tree borer, 235 



varieties, 212, 213 



yellows, 247, 248, 251 

 Peaches injured by curculio, 235 

 Pea root nodules, 104 

 Peaty soil, 52, 55, 59, 63 

 Pedigree, sample, 400 

 Pedigrees, 261 

 Percherons, 264 

 Perennial weeds, 30 

 Perennials defined, 20 



place for, in garden, 192 

 Perfect strawberries, 216 

 Permanent pastures, 108 



Phosphate rock, 84 

 Phosphoric acid, 402, 404 

 fertilizers, 84, 85 

 in feeds, 405 

 in manures, 407 

 Phosphorus, study of, 85 

 Picking and packing fruit, 218 



bag for fruit, 387 

 Pig management, 302, 303 

 Pipe wrench, 387 

 Pistillate strawberries, 216 

 Plan for farm school, 194 



school grounds, 198 

 Planning crops, 362 

 Plans for planting shrubs, 204, 205 

 Plant diseases, 246, 247 



prevention of, 247 

 studying, 247 



food in soil*. 15, 58, 59 



improvement, chapter on, 22, 



409 

 Planting corn, 144 



experiment, 144 



distances for fruits, 408 

 vegetables, 408 



methods of, 181, 188 



mixed, for trees, 185 



need of, 179, 181 



on the farm, 181 



ornamentals, directions for, 

 205 



potatoes, 167 



principles of, 203 



time of, 192 



trees, 179, 180, 181 



vegetables, 193 

 Plants and moistures, 10, 11 



as soil formers, 45, 48 



breathing of, 12 



division of, 42 



feeding of, 83 



flowers of, 8, 17 



for pasture, 108 



get 'food from air, 12 



leaves of, 8, 10 



mineral matter in, 10, 11, 14 



needs of, 16 



parts of, 8 



per acre for vegetables, 408 



roots of, 8 



stems of, 8, 9 



water used by, 62 

 Plowing, depth of, 64, 75 



fall, 74 



for potatoes, 164 



objects of, 72, 73 

 Plows, form of, 73, 74 



gang, 74 



Plum curculio. 233, _34 

 Plymouth Rock hen, 308, 309 

 Poison for insects, 395 

 Poland China swine, 301, 302 

 Polled Angus, 281 



cattle, origin of, 260 



Durhams, 280 

 Pollen, how carried, 18 

 Pollination, cro&s, 19 



of corn, 19 



self, 19 

 Pony breeds, 263 



