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MAIZE 



Grain, yields of, Transvaal maize, 146. 1 



Great Basin, 49. 



Green corn, 49. 



Grinding grain, 629, 637. 



Grooming ears, 238. 



Growing season, relative length of, 330. 



Growth of plant, 73. 



Guncotton, manufacture of, 798. 



Hail, 34. 

 Hail-belts, 35. 



Hand-husking in America, 476. 

 Hand-picking, cost of, in U.S., 461. 

 Hares, 431. 

 Harrowing, 378, 421. 

 Harvesters, 464, 466. 

 Harvesting, 451, 452, 461, 463. 

 Heating caused by moisture, 594. 

 Heating, loss of weight due to, 595. 

 Height of plants, 194, 195. 

 Heritable characters, 160. 

 Hermaphrodite florets, 87. 

 Heterozygote, 164. 

 High-veld, breeds suitable for, 331. 

 History, origin, etc., 9. 



— of botanical name, 16. 



— of cultivation, n. 

 Hominy, 631, 688, 715. 

 Homozygote, 163. 

 Horny gluten, 660. 



— starch, 661. 

 Horses, maize for, 721. 

 Horsfal, W. H., 629. 



Hull, or outer covering, 122, 658. 



Husk, the, 99, no, 799. 



Husker and shredder combined, 477, 



47S. 

 Husking by hand, 46r, 472, 476. 

 Hybridization, 87, 210. 



Immingham Dock, new silo at, 606. 

 Importation, 505, 604, 617, 624. 

 Improvement of maize, 126, 127, 234. 

 Inbreeding, effect of, 211. 

 India, 53, 54, 510. 

 Indians, cultivation by, n. 

 Inflorescence, 85. 



Inheritance, difficulties in studying, 

 207. 



— of characters, 160, 188. 



— of colour, 187. 



— ofdwarfness, 197. 



— of fasciated and lobed ears, 206. 



— of height, 195. 



— of laterally branched ears, 206. 



— of length of ears, 197. 



— of ligule and auricles, 191. 



— of row numbers, 199, 204. 



— of rows in a maize cross, 205. 



— of size and weight of grain, 199. 



— of size characters, 195. 



Insect pests, 435, 496. 



Insects injurious to stored grain, 494. 



Intensive cultivation, 128. 



Interaction of unit-characters, 173. 



Internodes, 77. 



Introduction into Africa, 12, 14. 



Asia, 14. 



Europe, 12. 



Irrigation, 348. 



Is-ona or Rooibloem, 423, 426. 



Joints, 75. 



Judging, card for, 267, 272, 273. 



— computing sheet for, 271. 



— for exhibition, etc., 235. 

 — . for seed, 249. 



— methods of, 246, 247. 



— shelled maize, 263. 

 Juice, maize, 697. 



Kaffir corn, 13. 



Kibbling rolls, 637. 



Kimberley mines, consumption on, 499. 



Koren, derivation of, 18. 



Lambs, maize meal for, 710. 

 Lands, new V. old, 350. 

 Larva?, silks injured by, 91. 

 Layer, see Aleurone layer. 

 Leaf, arrangement of, 85. 



— functions of, 80. 



— importance of, 83. 



— sheath, 67, 81, 82. 



— surface, 81. 



— scorch or maize " Blight," 412. 

 Leaves, desirable, 215. 



— number of, 80. 



— striped, 207. 



Legurainose crops, use of, 358. 

 Life cycle of maize, 69. 

 Ligule, 80, 124, 191. 



Lime, use of, etc., 364-6. 



Linnaeus, 16. 



Listing, 385. 



Local markets, 498. 



Local trade, classes of maize for, 502. 



Locusts, 446. 



Lodicules, 97. 



Machinery, modern milling, 634. 

 Maidis Ustilago, 802. 

 Maize, origin of name, 16. 



— various spellings, 16-18. 

 Maize Cricket, 445. 



— products, importance of, 782. 

 Maizena, 688. 



Manganese compounds, 370, 371. 

 Manure, artificial, 364. 



— functions of, 360. 



— phosphatic, 366. 



— remedy for is-ona, 426. 



