INDEX 



427 



Roughage, 332 



Rows of kernels on corn, 139 



Rules for alfalfa growing, 131, 132 



corn judging, 134, 139 



farmers, 401, 

 Rust of apple, 205, 251 

 Rye, 158, 159 



Saddle horse, 268, 270 

 Salesman, the farmer a, 365 

 Sampling milk to test, 357 

 Sandy soil, 52, 54, 59, 63 

 San Jose scale, 237, 238 

 Scab of apples, 249, 250 



potato, 252, 253 

 Scale, San Jose, 237, 238 

 Schedule for placing agriculture, 4 

 School gardening, 198, 202 

 equipment, 199 

 experiments, 200, 201 

 in California, 192 

 place for, 199 

 plots, 198, 202 

 products of, 202 

 suggestions for, 199, 200 

 grounds described, 204 

 mapping of, 363 

 needs of, 204 

 plans for, 198 

 Scions for apples, 35, 37 



peaches and plums, 39 

 Score card for cattle, 291, 292 

 corn, 140 

 horse, 275, 277 

 Scrub, see Native Stock 

 Seed analysis, 25 

 cheap, 27 



collection, 27 

 corn, harvesting, 145 

 storing, 145, 147 

 depth of planting, 193 

 for crops, quantity, 367 

 good, chapter on, 22" 

 immature, 27 



impurities, examining for, 28 

 potatoes, cutting, 166 



treating, 253 

 samples of, 30 

 selection, 22, 23 

 testing, 25 

 what to buy, 27 

 wheat, 156 



Seeding alfalfa, 112, 116 

 oats, 157 

 pastures, 109 



Seeds, forest tree, 182, 183, 184 

 mounted, 29 

 purpose of, 20 

 structure of, 20 

 study of, 20 



Selecting corn, rules for, 134, 139 

 Separators, hand, 854 

 Shallow tillage, 75 

 Sheep, care of, 298 



chapter on. 293, 415 

 judging, 299 

 to kill weeds, 110 

 types of, 293 



Shelter belts, 180. 181, 182, 185 

 Shire, English, 265 



Shorthorns, 279, 280 

 Shorts, 335 

 Shropshire, 294, 295 

 Shrubs, masses of, 203 

 Sifting, grain, 22 

 Silage, see Ensilage 

 Silk worm, 239 

 Silo, capacity of, 149 



filling, 148, 334 



masonry, 149 



metal, 149 



stave, 149 



underground, 149 

 Silt, 52 



Site for orchard, 206 

 Skim milk, 356. 359 

 Slips, see Cuttings 

 Small fruits, to grow, 207 



grains, chapter on, 154, 412 

 Soil, agencies in forming, 45 



and fertilizers of, 154 



builders, 45 



clayey, 52, 53, 54, 59, 63 



defined, 44 



farm, 58 



for barley, 158 



improvement, chapter on, 71, 

 410 



kinds of, chapter on, 52, 410 



loamy, see Loam 



moisture, chapter on, 60, 410 



names of, 59 



oats, 157 



packing of, 62 



perfect, 58 



plant-food form, 15 



potatoes, 163 



preparation for corn, 143 



rocky, 53 



sampling, 59, 60 



sandy, 52, 54, 59, 63 



texture of, 57 



transported, 50, 51 



warmed by drainage, 69 



wind-blown, 45, 51 

 Soiling crops, 98, 99, 333 



entire, 98 



for the dairy, 98 



partial, 98, 101 



system, 98 

 Soils, characteristics, chapter on, 52 



how formed, chapter on, 44 



inoculation of, 112 



water-holding power, 62, 63 



in, 60, 63 

 Soluble oil, 238 



Sorting and grading fruit, 218 219 

 Souring of milk, 351, 353 

 Southdown sheep, 294 295 

 Soy beans, 92. 99, 104 

 Specimens, preserving, 238, 239 

 Sphinx caterpillar, 241 

 Sports defined. 260 

 Spray mixtures, 395 



time to, 259. 255. 256, 257 

 Spraying, 246, .250, 255, 258 



orchards, 255, 257 



principles, 257 

 Standarized milk, 352 

 Standards of feeding, 339, 362 



