INDEX 



FAGG 



American Agriculturist contest 353 



Antiquity of plant 2 



Argentina: 



Crop of 340 



Corn acreage in ;.... 343 



Exports from 343 



Austria-Hungary, crop of 337 



Binder, use of 356 



Bisulphid of carbon 277,^79 



Botany and varieties — Chapter 



II 5-36 



Bran, iiow obtained Z95 



Breeding: 



Advantages of 59 



Barren stalks in plat 66 



Field 64 



Methods of 59 



Plats, arrangement of 65 



Selection of variety in 61 



Breeding and selection of seed 



corn — Chapter IV 57-74 



Butt, grades of 82 



By-products, composition of. . . 195 



Carbon bisulphid 277.279 



Characteristics : 



Fixed by selection 10 



Physical .■ 1 1 



Chloride of lime 252 



Circumference of ear, meas- 

 uring 83 



Clover: 



As a soil fertilizer 43 



Plowing sod for corn 47 



Securing a stand 43 



Seeding for fertilizing 43 



Seeding with nurse crops... 43 

 Seeding during last cultiva- 

 tion 47 



Seeding alone 47 



Cob, proportion of corn to ... . 86 



Color, grades of 80 



Commercial products of corn.. 316 

 Compounds, at various stages. . 148 

 Co-operative storing and selling 243 

 Corn judging— Chapter V.. ..75-86 

 Corn pests and .diseases — Chap- 

 ter XIV 245-29 



Cornstalks in tfnechanic arts... 320 

 Cost of growing corn — Chapter 

 XV 293-315 



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Cost of production: 

 American Agriculturist esti- 

 mate 301, 314 



Difficult to estimate 293 



Explanation of terra 302 



Illinois investigation 295 



Nebraska farm estimate 300 



Sibley estate estimate 299 



Uiireliable official estimate.. 294 

 Wisconsin investigation .... 297 



Crops : 



Classiiication of 105 



Corn a restorative 348 



Requirements of 347 



Of the world 363 



Of the United States 367 



Comparison eastern, southern, 

 western 359 



Cribs: 



Double 163 



Most suitable 163 



Cultivation : 



Alternating method 171 



Cost of 312 



Dunton system 169 



Early methods of, in America 4 



Object of 182 



Reasons for 123 



Shallow 124 



Southern methods 167 



Culture outside the corn belt- 

 Chapter XI 167-191 



Cutting and shocking 155 



Dent corn: 



Benton 3' 



Boone County White 24 



Characteristics 13 



Development of 8 



Early Mastodon 30 



Golden Eagle 17 



Iowa Silver Mine 18 



Leaming 22 



Pride of the North 31 



Reid's Yellow 15 



Riley's Favorite 19 



Varieties 12 



White Superior 20 



Digestion, summary of exper- 

 iments '48 



Ditching, to destroy insects... 265 



