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INDEX 



nure, 59; market grades, 95; mar- 

 keting, 94; mixing of varieties, 49; 

 nativity, 47; pasturing stalks, 86; 

 pedigreed varieties, 125; planters, 

 75; planting, 71; pop, 53; prepara- 

 tion of land, 62; prices, 95; pro- 

 duction, 53; root louse, 105; root- 

 worms, 107; rotations, 98, 100; 

 seed,66; seed plat, 128; selection 

 of seed, 111; shredding, 84; silage, 

 91; smut, 102; soils, 58; storing, 

 83; storing seed, 121; stover, 84; 

 sweet, 52; time to select seed, 111; 

 type to select, 115; uses, 109; val- 

 ue of fodder, 88; varieties, 49, 53, 

 125; weight of bushel, 94; Wil- 

 liams method of breeding, 125; 

 yield, 56. 



Cotton, 464; adaptation, 468; baling, 

 478; cultivation, 475; diseases, 481; 

 description, 465; Egyptian, 466; 

 exports, 480; fertilizers, 471; fiber, 

 466; ginning, 477; imports, 480; 

 importance, 468; India, 466; in- 

 sect pests, 480; market grades, 

 479; marketing, 479; origin, 464; 

 picking, 477; planting, 474; prep- 

 aration of land, 473; prices, 480; 

 production, 469; Sea Island, 466: 

 soils, 471; uses, 482; varieties, 467. 



Cowpeas, 391; adaptation, 391; as 

 green manure. 396; culture, 393; 

 description, 391; diseases, 396; 

 fertilizers, 392; harvesting seed, 

 394; hay making, 394; insect 

 pests, 396; origin, 391; rotations 

 for, 397; soils, 392; uses, 394; va- 

 rieties, 392. 



Creeping bent grass, 323. 



Cribs, corn, 83. 



Crimson clover, 372. 



Crop rotation, 503. 



Crops, choice of, 20; classes of, 11; 

 fiber, 17, 463; field, 12; food, 19; 

 forage, 16. 271; grain, 14, 47; root, 

 18, 412; sugar. 18. 451; stimulant, 

 19; tuber, 18, 422; uses of, 19. 



Crosses, 43. 



Crows, 108. 



Cultivated plants, number of. 12. 



Cultivation, 76, 99. 



Cultivators, 77. 



Cutworms, 104. 



Dent corn, 50. 

 Depth to plant seeds, 25. 

 Diversification of crops, 22. 

 Durum wheat, 141. 

 Durra, 260. 



Elements of plant food, 33. 

 Emmer, 139. 

 English rye grass, 334. 

 Ergot, 237. 



Fanning Mill, use of, 149. 



Fertilization, 42. 



Fertilizers, commercial, 37. 



Fescues, 334. 



Fiber crops, 17, 463. 



Field bean, 405. 



Field crops, 12. 



Field pea, 403. 



Flax, 241, 484; cleaning seed, 246; 



description, 241; diseases, 250; 



fiber, 243; handling fiber, 248; 



harvesting, 247; importance, 243; 



improvement, 252; insects, 250; 



market grades, 249; origin, 241; 



preparation of land, 245; prices, 



249; production, 243; rotation, 



250; soils, 245; sowing, 247; uses, 



251; value, 249. 

 Flint corn, 51. 

 Fodder corn, 88. 

 Food crops, 19. 

 Food, plant, 33. 

 Forage crops, 16, 271; composition 



of, 277. 

 Formaldehyde treatment for smut, 



166. 

 Foxtail millet, 341. 



German millet, 344. 



Germination, 24; box, 68; of small 

 seed, 283. 



Gophers, 108. 



Graders, corn, 66. 



Grain crops, 14, 47. 



Grain sorghums, 258. 



Grain weevil, 108. 



Grass, defined, 271, 307. 



Grass, Bermuda, 326; blue, 316; bil- 

 lion dollar, 345; brome, 331; or- 

 chard, 324; rye, 334; wheat, 333; 

 wood meadow, 321. 



Grasses, 307; annual, 336; descrip- 

 tion, 307, importance, 309; per- 

 ennial, 311. 



Grasshoppers, 107, 167. 



Growth of plants, necessities for, 42. 



Hairy vetch, 409. 



Hay, 291; acre value, 292; acre 

 yield, 292; baling, 298; curiner, 

 296; cutting, 293; machinery, 297; 

 market grades, 299; measuring, 

 299; production, 291: storing, 297. 

 (See also under the various hay 

 crops.) 



Hemp, 484. 



Hessian fly, 167. 



Hogging off corn, 86. 



Horticulture, definition of, 12. 



Humus, 37. 



Hungarian millet, 344. 



Hybrids, 43. 



Improvement of plants, 43. 

 Inoculation, 352, 363, 381. 

 Iron, use by plants, 36. 



