CONTENTS 9 



Soy Beans. 



Varieties — Time, method, rate and depth of seeding — Inoculation, tillage and 



fertilizers — Time and method of harvesting — Composition, feeding value and 



utilization. 



Vetches — Canada field peas — Harvesting — Other annual legumes — Sorghums — 



Millet — Rape— Catch crops for pasture and hay. 



Chapter 20. ANNUAL LEGUMES, GROWN PRINCIPALLY FOR SEEDS.. 294 

 Field bean — Time, rate, manner and depth of seeding — Harvesting — Threshing 

 and cleaning — Yield — Field peas — Cowpeas — Soy beans — Castor bean — Vetch 

 — Crimson clover. 



Peanuts. 

 Soil and climatic conditions — Fertilizers and lime required — Time, rate, depth 

 and manner of planting — Seed selection and preparation — Varieties — Cultivation, 

 harvesting and curing — Preparing for market — Yields. 



Chapter 21. ROOTS AND TUBERS FOR FORAGE 305 



Relation to other crops — Utilization and feeding value — Sugar beets — Mangels — 

 Turnips and rutabagas — Carrots — Parsnip — Cabbage — Kale — Artichokes — Cas- 

 sava — Chufa — Taro — Youtia. 



Chapter 22. THE POTATO 311 



The soil — Crop rotation — Soil preparation — The seed — Fertilization — The plant- 

 ing — Cultivation — Diseases — Insect pests — Harvesting the crop. 



Chapter 23. SUGAR CROPS (CANE, BEET AND MAPLE SUGAR, AND 



SORGHUM) 318 



Sugar Beets. 

 Adaptation — Preparation of land — Fertilization — Seeding and cultivation — 

 Harvesting — Seed production — Manufacture of beet sugar — By-products of beet 

 farming. 



Cane Sugar. 

 Description and mode of reproduction — Soils — Varieties of cane — Rotation and 

 preparation of the land — Fertilizers — Cultivation — Harvesting — Cane sugar 

 manufacture. 

 Maple Sugar — Sugar making — Sorghum. 



Chapter 24. COTTON PRODUCTION 329 



Species — Characteristics of the plant — Seed — Varieties of upland cotton grouped 

 —Cluster group — Semi-cluster group — Peterkin group — King group — Big-boll 

 group — Long-staple upland group — Desired qualities of a variety — Selection — 

 Soils adapted to cotton — Special types of soils. 



Fertilizer and Cultivation. 

 Plant food removed b}- cotton — Need of humus — Need of nitrogen — Need of 

 phosphoric acid — Need of potash — Commercial fertilizers profitable — Three-year 

 rotation suggested — Preparation of land — Time of plowing — Seed-bed — Planting 

 —Tillage. 



Harvesting and Marketing. 

 Picking — Ginning — Cotton seed — Storing — Grades of cotton. 



Chapter 25. TOBACCO 341 



Types and their commercial uses — Principal tobacco districts — Soils — Prepara- 

 tion and care -of seed-beds — Preparation of the soil — Fertilizers — Transplanting 

 and cultivation — Methods of harvesting — Barn curing — Preparation for market- 

 Methods of selling. 



