INDEX 
Falcon, 298 
False dandelion, 94 
False flax, 173 
False red-top, 133 
False Solomon’s seal, 88 
False sunflower, 91 
Farm accounts, 429 
Farm buildings, 427 
Farm machinery, 428 
Farm management, 425-431 
Farm work and the age of machinery, 418- 
424 
Farmers’ bulletins, — see Appendix A 
Farming, future of, 424; kinds of, 425 
Farming in former days, 418 
Feather bunch grass, 132 
Feeding of chickens, 236 
Fertility of soil, 149 
Fertilizers, 151 
Field crops, 141-146 
Fire blight, 187 
Flax, perennial, 9; wild and yellow, 97; 
false, 173 : 
Flax wilt, 187 
Fleabane, 176 ' 
Fleas, 378 
Flicker, 303 
Flies, 206, 221, 231 
Flower, its purpose, 61; parts of, 62; im- 
perfect, 66 
Flower clusters, 67-69 
Flowering currant, 116 
Flowers; flower garden, 5-12, 14, 19 
Flycatchers, 306-307 
Flytrap, 231 
Fowl meadow grass, 133 
Foxes, 384 
Foxglove, 9 
Foxtail, 169, 170 
French weed, 172 
Frogs, 414 
Fruits, fruit growing, 34-47 
Galloway cattle, 354 
Galls, gallnuts, gall insects, 226 
Gardening, 5-15 
Gaura, scarlet, 93 
Geese, tame, 243; wild, 286 
Gerardia, 99 ’ 
Germination, 22, 23-29 
Gladiolus, 15 
Godwit, 292 
455 
Golden aster, 98 
Golden glow, 9 
Goldenrod, 102 
Goldfinch, 315 
Gooseberries, 43 
Goose tansy, 94 
Gophers, — see ‘‘ground squirrels’’ and 
“pocket gophers”’ 
Gophers destroyed by birds, 273 
Gourd family of plants, 80 
Grackle, 313 
Grafting and budding, 35 
Grain rust, 186, 187, 190 
Grama grass, 134 
Grape, wild, 122 
Grasses, 128-136 
Grass family of plants, 72-74 
Grasshoppers, 201, 218 
Grebes, 282 
Grosbeaks, 320, 321 
Ground plum, 89 
Ground squirrels, 392-395 
Grouse, 293-2904 
Grubs, 208 
Guernsey cattle, 349 
Guinea fowls, 245 
Gulls and terns, 283-284 
Gum plant, 101 
Hackberry, 113 
Hare and rabbit family, 404-407 
Harebell, ox 
Hatching of birds, 266 
Hawks, 296-298; their food, 272 
Hay and pasture plants, 128-140 
Head, a flower cluster, 68 
Hedges, 106, 107 
Hell-diver, 282 
Hereford cattle, 352 
Herons, 287-288 
Hessian fly, 219 
Hibernation of insects, 199; of skunks, 388; 
of ground squirrels, 394; of frogs, 415 
High-bush cranberry, 117 
High-hole, 303 
Hollyhock, 9 
Holstein-Friesian cattle, 349 
Honeysuckle, Tartarian, 119 
Horned lark, 308 
Horseradish, 15 
Horses, 339 
Horseweed, 176 
