INDEX 



825 



Export, Government facilities for, 544. 

 control, 524. 



— grading at the ports, 568. 



— importance of, 507. 



— world's, 623. 

 Exports, Argentine, 52. 



— from Durban, 563. 



— irom S. Africa, 520, 558. 



— U.S.A., 5, 623. 



— varieties and classes of, 568. 

 Extracted dominants, 168. 



— recessives, 168. 



Fj and F 3 plants, 233, 234. 



Fallowing, 354, 421. 



Fanko, 68g. 



Farm value, 2, 751. 



Fat, 650. 



Feeding, by-products for, 711. 



— grain, frequency of, 705. 



— maize on the cob, 704. 



— preparation of grain for, 705. 



— of silage, 752. 



Feeding-value of an acre of maize, 734. 



— of fodder, 460. 



— of maize and other cereals, 667. 



— of silage, mixtures to increase, 



756. 

 Fermentation products of the grain, 



698. 

 Fertilization, 105, 212. 

 Fertilizers, 361-4. 

 Field corns, gg. 



— selection of parent ears, 220. 

 Filament, 95. 



Flaked maize, 643. 



Flower, 6g. 



Flowering period, go, g4- 



— plants of maize, 68. 

 Fluctuations of plant-characters, 160. 

 Fodder, best stage of growth for, 456. 



— for cattle, 744. ' 



— composition of, 45g, 745- 



— crop, 27. 



— moisture content of, 746. 



— or "shocked corn," 743. 



— planting distance for, 3g3. 



— relative value of, 745. 



— yield per acre of dry, 736. 

 Foliage, yellow, 415. 



Food, maize as, 673, 678. 

 Food value of maize bread, 679. 



of the weeds, 737. 



Foodstuffs, nutritive ratios of, 755. 



Forage, green, 736, 746. 



Forms for describing maize, 109, 118, 



123- 



Freight, ocean, 600. 



— rates, 523. 

 Frost, 32. 

 Frosted maize, 458. 



Gametes, 162, 183, 185. 



Gametic segregation, 180. 



Gas, manufacture of, from maize, 7g2. 



Generative nucleus, gg. 



Geographical distribution, g, 46. 



Georgia, rainfall at, 38. 



Geotropism, 73. 



Germ, maize, 713. 



Germ meal or corn-oil meal, 714. 



Germination, 71. 



Giant millet, 13. 



Gin, 700. 



Glands in the embryo, 124. 



Glucose, 6g2. 



Glume colour, igi. 



Glumes, 95. 



Gluten feed, 711. 



— horny, 660. 



— meal, 712. 



Glycerine, manufacture of, 786. 

 Government Experiment Farms, see 

 Cedara. 



— see Potchefstroom. 



Grades, American, 624, 627. 



Grading, 568, 571. 



Grain or corn, use of word, 18. 



— ng, 224. 



— and pasturage, 702. 



— apex, 122. 



— as food, 673. 



— best stage of growth for, 455. 



— colour of, 25g. 



— composition of, 632, 646, 653, 656. 



— country damaged, 493. 



— depth and breadth, 121. 



— depth of, effect on yield, I4g. 



— desirable, 216. 



— drying of, 481. 



— fermentation products of the, 6g8. 



— form for describing, 123. 



— grinding, 629, 637. 



— indentation, 122. 



— inheritance of size and weight of, igg. 



— judging, 253, 254. 



— number per ear, 116. 



— percentage by weight of grain and 



cob, 148. 



— percentage of grain to ear, 148. 



— preparation of, for feeding, 705. 



— proportions of parts of the, 656. 

 — ■ proportion to ear, 116. 



— proteids, 648. 



— protein obtainable from, 647. 



— quantity in ears, 115. 



— rows, number of, 114. 



— shape, 120, 151, 153, 253. 



— standardizing, 217. 



— unsound, injurious effect of, 680. 

 — . uses of, 673. 



— weight of, per ear, 137. 



— yield of, per ear, 254. 



