CONTENTS-INDEX 



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Chapter XXVII. — Fertilizers 237-249 



Best are cheapest 241, 242, 243 



Care of manure, the 240 



Natural and chemical 237, 238 



What each contains 238, 239 



What fertilizer is 237 



Wire basket, soil needs test 244, 249 



Chapter XXVIII. — More Abottt Fertilizers 250-257 



Experiments show, what 250, 251 



Growing crops and fertilizers 255 



Manure contains, what 257 



Potassium, kainit, wood-ashes and lime 252, 253 



Value of "check plats," the 253, 254 



Valuable elements 250 



Chapter XXIX.— Root Houses and Vegetable Pits 258-259 



How to build one 258, 259 



Uses, their 258 



Varieties of pits 259 



Chapter XXX.— Small Fruits 260-266 



Cultivation 262 



Currants and gooseberries 264 



How to grow them 264 



Enemies and their remedy 264, 265 



Grapes 265 



How to grow them 265, 266 



Growing new plants 263 



Labor and yield 260 



Marketing 262 



Planting 261 



Preparing the soil 261 



Raspberries and blackberries. 263 



How to grow them 264 



Strawberry patch, the: . 260 



Chapter XXXI.— The Poultry Run 267-279 



Branches of the business 272 



Care and feed 269 



Central hatching 273 



Cleanliness 269 



Colony plan versus yarded 274, 275 



Effort and profit 278 



How to succeed 279 



Importance of incubation 273 



Incubator hatching 271 



Indian Runner ducks 277 



Intensive hen, the 267 



