INDEX 



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Cotton {continued) 



annual crop of Egypt, 384. 



annual crop of India, 384. 



antagonistic qualities, 307. 



anthracnose, 415. 



Asiatic, 281. 



bacterial blight, 419. 



bagging, 369. 



bale, round, 369. 



bales, tare on, 369. 



baling, 367. 



bark and stems, 254. 



barring off, 352. 



-belt, extent of, 383. 



"benders," 277. 



Bengal, 276. 



big-boU group, 288. 



Blue Ribbon variety, 291. 



boll-rot, 415. 



boUs, 257. 



boll-stems or peduncles, 255. 



boll-weevil, 392. 



boll-weevil, burning stalks 



against, 398. 

 boll-weevil, extent of injury, 392. 

 boll-weevil, food of, 393. 

 boll- weevil, grazing stalks against, 



398. 

 boll-weevil, illustrations of, 171, 



172, 173. 

 boll-weevil, insect enemies of, 404. 

 boll-weevil, minor methods of 



combating, 400. 

 boll-weevil, map of region in- 

 vaded by, 403. 

 boU-weevil, nature of injury by, 



395. 

 boll-weevil, picking squares for, 



404. 

 boU-weevil, poisoning, 400. 

 boll-weevil, principal preventive 



measures, 398. 

 boll-weevil, rapid multiplication, 



396. 

 boll-weevil, rate of spread, 402. 

 boll-weevil, stages of, 395. 



Cotton {continued) 



boll-wee vU, widening rows against, 



401. 

 boll-weevil, winter quarters of, 



397. 

 boll-worm, 210, 388. 

 boll-worm, preventive measures, 



390. 

 breeding, 300. 

 breeding, for a small number of 



qualities, 308. 

 breeding, laboratory exercises, 



313. 

 breeding, literature, 314. 

 burning of stalks, 397. 

 burs, plant food in, 272. 

 care of baled, 370. 

 caterpillar, 404. 

 causes of scant profits, 320. 

 chopping, 354. 



classification of varieties, 283. 

 classing, 372. 

 cleaning middles, 355. 

 Cleveland variety, 298. 

 cluster group of, 283. 

 color of hnt, 374. 

 commercial grades, 372. 

 commercial grades, value of, 375. 

 competition by foreign countries, 



385. 

 competition, means of meeting, 



387. 

 composition, 267. 

 composition, laboratory exercises, 



273. 

 composition, literature, 273. 

 composts for, 335. 

 compresses, 371. 

 Cooke Improved variety, 298. 

 crop, statistics of, 379. 

 crossing of American and Asiatic 



species, 276. 

 crossing versus selection, 301. 

 cultivation, 341, 351. 

 cultivation, laboratory exercises, 



360. 



