INDEX 



699 



Weevil, bean-, 211; in coffee, 245; pea. 613; in sweet- 

 potatoes, 622; white pine, 343. 

 Weigela for farm garden, 274. 

 Weights, legal, of agricultural products, 148-162. 

 Wcinmannia glabra, 628. 



Weinmannia macrostachya, 628. 



Weinmannia racemosa, 628. 



Welch, Dr. Thomas B., quoted, 178. 



Weld, 270. 



West Virginia, crop rotation systems in, 106. 



Westgate, J. M., article by, 192. 



Whale-oil soap, 38; for insects, 43, 44, 130, 281. 



Wheat, 375, 660-670; belt, rotation for, 94, 101; breed- 

 ing notes, 62; with clover, 238; composition, 560; cost 

 of raising, 322; as cover-crop, 259, 260, 350, 351 ; crop 

 rotation for control of insects, 42; direction of drills, 

 90; diseases, 670; durum, introduction, 73; effect of 

 electricity on, 30, 31 ; effect of iodid of potassium on, 

 28; effect of tannic acid, 29; effect of pyrogallol, 29; 

 fertilization in, 60, 68 ; for hay on Pacific coast, 453 ; 

 hybrids, 63, 68; India-, 217; insect enemies, 670; 

 lowered quality by improper handling, 98; new varie- 

 ties from sports, 58, 61; nitrogen requirements, 320; 

 notes, 2, 4, 443, 444; in the Palouse country, 455; 

 place in rotation, 82, 87, 89, 93, 94, 96, 99-109, 207, 

 220, 249, 297, 668; planting dates, 138-140; races, 57; 

 rust, 47, 48, SO, 52, 670; seed-growing, 144; seed notes, 

 49, 132, 133, 136; smut, 47, 49, 50, 670; for soiling, 

 571, 572; storing in pits, 666; straw, for paper, 519; 

 straw for weaving, 293 ; trap-crop for hessian fly, 43 ; 

 treatment with copper sulfate, 118; varieties and the 

 control of rust, 48 ; varieties resistant to hessian fly, 

 43; and vetch, 573; weight, legal, 161, 152; yields, 

 153-155, 486. 



Wheat-grass, 376; bunch, 455; false, 455; in Rocky 

 mountain region, 454; slender, 376, 452; in South- 

 west, 453; western, 463-455; wild, 455. 



Wheeler, C. F., article by, 306. 



Wheeler, H. J., quoted, 105. 



Whin, 307; in rotation, 108. 



Whisky from corn, 412. 



White birch for tannin, 629. 



White clover. (See Clover, white.) 



White Egyptian corn, 384r-386, 579. 



White-fly, hydrocyanic acid gas for, 45. 



White gum, 627. 



White lupine, 397, 398. 



White melilot, 467. 



White milo, 386. 



White milo maize, 578. 



White mustard, 259, 311. 



White spruce for tannin, 625. 



White thorn, 270. 



White-top, 453, 465. 



White oak for tannin, 625. 



White-weed, 447. 



Whitney quoted, 248. 



Whortleberry, 267. 



Wiancko, A. T., quoted, 101. 



Wickson, E. J., quoted, 100. 



Wilcox, E. Mead, article by, 229. 



Wild oat, 373, 455, 485; on Pacific coast, 453. 



Wild pie-plant, 628. 



Wild rice, 535. 



Wild rye, 454, 466; in Southwest, 453. 



Wiley, H. W., article by, 186. 



Willits citrange (Fig. 86), 67. 



Willfarth quoted, 393. 



Williams, W. M., quoted, 164. 



Willow, bark for tannin, 629; for basketry, 341 ; intoler- 

 ant character, 323; planting, 328; regeneration, 325, 

 326; in Southwest, 453. 



Willughbeia, 554. 



Wilson, A. D., quoted, 102. 



Wilt, 50; of cotton, 251, 252; of cowpea, 264, 266; of 

 ginseng, 360; of house plants, 130. 



Wind, einvironment of plants, 21; as an aid in insect 

 control, 40. 



Windbreak, forest as, 316. 



Window, boxes, 129, 130; gardening, 128-130; plants, 

 128-130. 



Windsor bean, 212-214. 



Wine, 181-183; statistics, 168, 177, 178. 



Wing, Joseph E., article by, 237; quoted, 104. 



Winterfat in Southwest, 454. 



Wintergreen, 494, 495, 498. 



Wire-grass {Cynodon Dactylon), 371. 



Wire-grass (Poo compressa), 373. 



Wireworms, 42, 43, 86; in com, 414; in popcorn, 

 421. 



Wisconsin, crop rotation systems in, 106. 



Wisconsin Experiment Station quoted, 532. 



Wise quoted, 520. 



Witch balls, 446. 



Witches' brooms, 21. 



Withycombe, James, quoted, 104. 



Witseu, Nicholas, quoted, 240. 



Woad, 270; place in rotation, 107. 



Woll, F. W., article by, 569; quoted, 569. 



Wollny quoted, 31. 



Wongschy, 268. 



Wood, ashes for plants, 128; for paper, 503-505; paren- 

 chyma, 15; treating to prevent decay, 347. 



Wood alcohol, 186. 



Wood and Berry quoted, 548. 



Wood-oil tree, introduction, 72. 



Woodlot, farm, 312-347. 



Woodman's Handbook quoted, 340. 



Woodruff, dyer's, 268. 



Wool, printing, 272. 



Wooly-butt, 627. 



Wormseed, American, 458, 466; oil of, 496, 498. 



Wormwood, 467; mountain, for dye, 269; oil, 495, 496, 

 498, 499. 



Woronin quoted, 392. 



Wougsky, 268. 



Wyoming, crop rotation systems in, 106. 



Xanthosoma atrovirens, 80. 

 Xanthosoma sagittaefolium, 80. 

 Xylem, 9. 



Yams for industrial alcohol, 187. 



YangmoE, 267. 



Yaray palm for fiber, 292. 



Yarn, fibers for, 281 ; printing, 272. 



Yarrow (Fig. 165), 116. 



Yautia, 72, 74, 80. 



Yaxci fiber, 288. 



Yeasts, 181; destroyed by formaldehyde, 49; notes, 2; 



in relation to preserves, 161. 

 Yellow berries, 270. 

 Yellow clover. (See Clover, yellow.) 

 Yellow lupine, 398. 



Yellow milo, 384^386, 579. (See Mi/o.) 

 Yellow trefoil, 306; seed notes, 142. 

 Yellow weed, 270. 

 Yew, for tannin, 625; notes, 2. 

 Yields of farm crops, 131-155. 

 Young, T. B., notes by, 464, 466. 

 Yucca, 227; for farm garden, 274; fiber, 281. 

 Yucca Treculeana, 290. 



Zagrammosoma multilineata, 245. 



Zapupe azul, 291. 



Zapupe fiber, 291 . 



Zavitz quoted, 489. 



Zea, botanical characters, 366; amylacea, 402; amylea, 



saccharata, 402; canina, 398, 399, 402; everta, 402- 



418; indentata, 402; indurata, 402 ; Mays, 367, 398; 



effect of electricity on, 32, (See Maize); saccharata, 



402 ; tunicata, 402. 

 Zigzag clover, 233. 

 Zinc salts, effect on growth of mold fuogt and algse, 



28. 

 Zinnia for farm garden, 274. 

 Zingiber officinale. (See Ginger.) 

 Zizania aquatica, 536. 

 Zon, Raphael, article by, 319. 

 Zooglcea, defined, 392. 

 Zootechny, defined, 191. 

 Zuntz quoted, 539. 



