428 



INDEX 



Starch, 329 



in plants, 13 



State experiment stations, 393 

 Stems of plants, 9 



relation of light, 10 

 sap in, 10 

 Steps in churning, 354 



cheese-making, 355 

 Stock feeding, 337 

 Stocks for j.pples, 35 



peaches, 38, 39 

 Stomates, 11, 12 

 Storage of sweet potatoes, 173 

 Stored grain, treatment of, 231 

 Storing corn, 147, 151, 152 



vegetables, 196 

 Stover corn, 147, 152 

 Stratifying peach seeds, 39 

 Straw as feed, 332 

 Strawberries, 214. 215, 216 



flowers of, 216 



methods of planting, 214 



varieties of, 216 

 Structure and physiology of plants, 



chapter on, 8 

 Subjects in school, 4, 5 

 Subsoil and plow, 58 

 Success, elements of, 363 



in gardening, 191 

 Succulent feed, 316 

 Sucking insects, 220, 221 



sprays for, 395 

 Suffolk Punch, 266 

 Sugar in milk, 346 



plants, 13 

 Sugars, 329, 330 

 Suggestions to teachers, 2, 409 

 Sunlight aids plants, 12 



need of, 12, 13 

 Super for hives, 325 

 Superphosphate, 85, 87 

 Swarming of bees, 325 

 Sweet corn, 100, 101, 102 



potatoes, 171. 172. 173 

 cultivation, 173 

 fertilizer for, 403 

 harvesting, 173 

 hot-bed, 173 

 plants, 171 

 soil for 171 

 storage. 173 

 Swine, chapter on, 300, 415 



feed for. 406 



four stages in life of, 303 



mineral of, 300 



types for, 300 

 Syrian bees. 322 

 System in farming, 362 

 Systems, cropping, 88, 411 



Tables, consult Appendix, 391 



Tachinid fly, 229 



Tamworth swine, 302 



Tankaere. 84 



Teachers, suggestions to. 2 



Temperature and souring. 350, 351 



in soil farming, 45, 46 

 Temperatures, 16 

 Tender vegetables. 193 

 Tester for ear method. 141 



Testing milk and cream, 355, 359 



results, 142 



seed corn, 140 



Thinning plants, lessons in, 201 

 Thorax of insects, 220 

 Thoroughbred, 260, 267, 269 

 Three-horse eveners, 385 

 Tillage, 72, 75 



of corn, 145 

 Timber crops. 98 

 Time to prune, 210 

 Tips of corn, 136 

 Toads destroy insects, 240 

 Tobacco, care of, 176, 413 



curing, 177 



harvesting, 176 



nicotine in, 175 



seeding, 176 



soil for, 175 



sorting, 177 



transplanting, 176 



types, 175 



varieties, 177 



where grown, 175 

 Tomatoes, fertilizer for, 403 

 Tongue graft, 36 

 Treatment of seed potatoes, 253 

 Tree planting, 179, 188 

 Arbor Day, 188 



seeds, 182, 183, 184 

 Trees influence water supply, 180, 



kinds of, 182, 190 



raising of, 35 



shape of, 180 



top- working, 40 

 Trotter, American, 268, 269 

 Tuber crops, 97 

 Type of corn, 135 

 Types of cattle, 279 



horses, 263 



wheat, 154, 155 

 Typhoid flies, 229 



Underdrainage, effects of, 64 



principles of, 69 

 Unsoundness in horses, 273 



Value of manures, 407 



property, 306 



the farm, 367 

 Variation among animals, 260 



In milk, causes of, 346 



laws of, 260 

 Varieties of chickens, 306, 309 



fruit, 316. 317 

 Vegetable gardening. 191, 197 



matter in soil, 55 

 Vegetables, hardy and tender. 193 



planting distances for. 408 

 Ventilation by drainage, 69 



of barns, 349, 350 

 xr -^rh, 99 



Vines on buildings, 204 

 Vitality of seed cor:;, 136 



Waeon jack, 387 

 v'asp witi> cicada, 241 

 Water, canillarv. 60-64 

 free in soils, 60, 61 



