CONTENTS vii 



North American Field Crops, continued pase 



Farm Garden 273 



The Farm Fruit- and Vegetable-Gardens. S. T. Maynard 274 



Fiber Plants. Lyster H. Dewey 281 



Flax. C. P. Bull 293 



Forage Crops 303 



The Significance of Forage-Cropping. Charles S. Phelps 304 



Incidental Forage-like Plants. The Editor, C. P. Wheeler, and others 306 



Forests 312 



Farm Woodlot : Its Place in the Farm Economy. B. B. Fernow 313 



Factors in Timber Production. Raphael Zon 319 



Raising the Timber Crop. Samuel B. Green 323 



Practical Protection and Improvement of the F'arm Woodlot. Alfred Akerman 330 



Harvesting and Marketing the Timber Crop. E. E. Bogus 333 



Insect Enemies of Woodlot Trees. A. D. Hopkins 343 



Forest and Timber Diseases. Hermann von Schrenk 345 



Fruit-Growing 348 



Handling and shipping fruit. G. Harold Powell 355 



Ginseng, American. B. L. Hart 357 



Grain : Shipping, Grading and Storing. C. S. Scofield 362 



Grasses. A. S. Hitchcock 365 



Hemp. J. N. Harper 377 



Hops. Jared Van Wagenen, Jr 380 



Kafir and Durra 384 



Cultivation of kafir and durra. E. G. Montgomery and C. W. Warburton 385 



Kale for Stock-Feeding. H. W. Smith 388 



Jersey kale 389 



Kohlrabi for Stock-Feeding. J. W. Gilmore 389 



Legumes 391 



Legume Root-tubercles. George F. Atkinson 392 



Lespedeza. Samuel M. Bain 395 



Lupine. H. N. Vinall 397 



Maize, or Indian Corn. John W. Harshberger 398 



Maize-Growing. C. P. Hartley 402 



Maize-Growing for the Silo. Jared Van Wagenen, Jr 414 



Popcorn. J. G. Curtis 418 



The Breeding of Maize. Cyril G. Hopkins 421 



Maple-Sugar and Maple-Syrup. J. L. Hills 427 



Maple-syrup-making from Ohio Experience. W. I. Chamberlain 430 



Meadows and Pastures. S. Fraser 434 



Grasses and Clovers Used in Meadows and Pastures. W. J. Spillman 442 



Native Meadows and Pastures of the Plains and Ranges. P. Beveridge Kennedy 453 



Medic 456 



Medicinal, Condimental and Aromatic Plants. R. H. True, and others 457 



Melilotus. J. F. Duggar 467 



Millets. M. A. Carleton 469 



Mushrooms and TuflBles. B. M. Duggar 474 



Nurseries 481 



Organization of a Commercial Nursery Business. M. McDonald 483 



