INDEX 



Acidity in fruit, increase of, 6 



Albemarle Pippin, soils for, 19 



Animals, damage by, 261 



Aphids (lice), 174 



Aphis, woolly, 180; green-apple leaf, 



[81 

 Apple-bud moth, 195 

 Apple-leaf spot, 220 ; trumpet-miner, 



1S5 

 Apple scab, 217 



Apples, varieties of, 467. See Varieties 

 Ashes, wood, experiments with, 439 

 Astringency, increase of, in apples, 6 

 Auction, selling at, 321 



Baldwin, soils for, 12 

 Barking of trees, 26r 

 Basic-slag meal, effect of, on color, 443 

 Basin method of irrigation, 147 

 Ben Davis, soils for, 14 

 Bitter rot, 211, 223 

 Black rot and canker, 212, 221 

 Black Twig, Mammoth, soils for, iS 

 Bleaching, 362 

 Blight, pear, 210, 215 

 Blister canker, 213 

 Blotch, 222 



Blue Ridge region, 44S 

 Borers, flat-headed, 172; round-headed, 

 173; shot-hole, 174; remedies for, 



'74 

 Breeding, 41S; aim in, 424 

 Brown-tail moth, 1S5 

 Bud moth, 195 



Budding, 407 ; selection in, 425 

 By-products, 353 



< lalcium as fertilizer, 104 



Canker, 212, 213 



Cankerworm, 1S4 



Cannery, 370 



Canning, 370 



Caterpillar, tent, 185 



Cedar rust, 215 



Check method of irrigation, 147 



Choice of apples in different markets 



of the United States, 487 

 Cider, 353; preservation of, 354; 



champagne, 355 ; varieties for, 479 



( left-grafting, 410 



Climate for orchards, 1 



Codling moth, 196 



Cold storage, houses for, 340 ; in tran- 

 sit, 349 



Color in fruit, 439, 480 ; lack of, 5, 

 6 ; influence of fertilizers on, 439 ; 

 conclusions concerning, 447 



Cooperation, 372 ; organizations for, 



373 

 I (ists. yields, and profits, 375 

 Cover crops, 91, 453; benefits of, 91 ; 

 bad effects of, 92 ; classification of, 

 93 ; snow-holding versus mulch-form- 

 ing, 93 ; frost-killed versus frost- 

 resisting, 94 ; best, 95 ; management 

 of, 96 

 Crops, cover. See Cover crops 

 Crosses in breeding apples, 423 

 Cultivation, 113; objects of, 1 13 ; tools 

 for, 117; method and time of, 121; 

 of young orchard, 121 ; of older 

 trees, 122 ; effect of, on color, 443 

 Curculio, plum, 201 



Damage to trees, 260 



Decay, 214 



Deer, injury from, 264 



I )escribing fruit, 437 ; blank for, 438 



Dessert trade, varieties for, 478 



Diseases, 209 ; in Northwest, 454 



Drainage, 9, 131 ; promoted by cultiva- 

 tion, 114; in irrigated orchards, 155; 

 in unirrigated orchards, 156 



Dropping, premature, 7 



Drying, crates and trays for, 364 ; racks 

 for, 364; by kiln, 365, 366; heat- 

 ing apparatus for, 365 ; time required 

 for, 367 ; curing room, 36S ; varieties 

 for, 480 



Dry rot, spongy, 227 



Duty of water in irrigating, 149; 

 average, 1 50 



Dwarf apple trees, 39; advantages of, 

 39 



Dynamite, use of, in digging holes, 75, 

 80 ; how exploded, 76 ; preparation 

 of, 76; misfire of, 79; tamping of, 

 79 ; cost of, for planting, Si 



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