14 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Pasturing Sweet Clover in Kansas 119 



Map of the United States and Canada, Showing Acreage op Alfalfa. . . 121 



Alpalfa Out-yields Other Hay Crops 124 



A Standing Field op Alpalpa 126 



Curing Alpalpa Hay in Shocks 128 



Comparison op Hogs Fed on Corn and on Alfalfa 129 



A Well-Set Cluster of Alfalfa Pods 131 



Sheep Pasturing on Hilly Land {Color Plate) 132 



Live Stock on Pasture 133 



Hay Making Scene (Millet) 138 



Good Pasture Land 141 



Field of Iron Cowpeas Planted in One-fifth Rows and Cultivated Three 



Times 145 



Hairy Vetch and Rye Growing Together 150 



Millet Makes an Excellent Catch Crop 152 



Making Hogs of Themselves 154 



Harvesting Field Beans with a Harvester 157 



Soy Beans 159 



Crimson Clover 160 



A Peanut Plant 162 



Harvesting and Curing Peanuts 165 



Root Crops (Map) 167 



A Load of Mangels 168 



Cross Section of an Easily Constructed Pit for Roots 170 



The Potato Crop 173 



The Condition of Seed Potatoes Depends on Character of Storage 176 



A Potato Planter 177 



Agricultural Progress in the United States and Germany (Chart) 181 



Sugar Beet 182 



A Good Stand and Vigorous Growth of Sugar Beets 184 



A Field of Sugar Cane 188 



A Good Cotton Plant, Showing Good Base Limbs 192 



Cotton Grown by Single Stalk Method 195 



Turning Under Crimson Clover for Cotton 198 



A Field op Cotton 200 



Field of Virginia Heavy Tobacco 204 



Field of Cigar Leaf Tobacco 205 



Tobacco Plant-bed 206 



A Plant Ready to Set in Field 210 



Fire-curing Barn 212 



Flue-curing Barn 213 



The Manner in which Canada Thistles Spread by Underground Root- 

 stocks 218 



The Canada Thistle 220 



Green Foxtail 221 



Quack Grass > 221 



Field Dodder 222 



Flax Dodder, , , , 222 



