INDEX 



567 



Cotton {continued) 



annual crop of Egypt, .384. 



annual crop of India, 3S4. 



antagonistic ciualities, 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-boll group, 288. 



Blue Ribbon variety, 291. 



boU-rot, 415. 



bolls, 257. 



boll-stems or peduncles, 255. 



boll-weevil, 392. 



boll-weevil, burning stalks 



against, 398. 

 boU-weevil, extent of injury, 392. 

 boll-weevil, food of, 393. 

 boll-weevil, grazing stalks against, 



398. 

 boU-weeWl, illustrations of, 171, 



172. 173. 

 boll-weevil, insect ('nemies of, 404. 

 boll-weevn, minor methods of 



combating, 400. 

 boll-weevil, map of region in- 

 vaded by, 403. 

 boll-weevil, nature of injury by, 



395. 

 - boll-weevil, picking squares for, 



404. 

 boll-weevil, poisoning, 400. 

 boll-weevil, principal preventive 



measures, 398. 

 boll-weevil, rapid multiplication, 



396. 

 boll-weevil, rate of spread, 402. 

 boII-weevil, stages of, 395. 



Cotton {continued) 



boll-weevil , 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 



ciualities, 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 lint, 374. 

 commercial grades, 372. 

 commercial grades, value of, 375. 

 competition by foreign countries, 



385. 

 comi:>ctition, means of meeting, 



387. 

 composition, 267. 

 composition, laljoratory exercises, 



273. 

 composition, literature, 273. 

 composts for, 3.35. 

 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. 



