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INDEX 



PAGE 



Elevators : 

 Attitude of railroads toward. 238 



Farmers' 238 



Floating 236 



Line 226 



Export trade 236 



Exports from surplus countries 362 

 i Extent of crop 331 



Feeding— Chapter XII 188-223 



Feeding: 



Importance of corn in 188 



To dairy cows 200 



To growing steers 201 



To hogs 205 



To horses 206 



To poultry 208 



Feeding the plant — Chapter VII 



92-110 



Fertilizers: 



Barnyard manure 52 



Commercial 54 



Constituents, soluble and in- 

 soluble - . . * 96 



Cottonseed meal for the 



south 106 



Direct 95 



Essential constituents of . . . . 94 

 Experiments with and with 



out 39 



For field corn 103 



For forage and silage corn.. 107 



For sweet corn 1 09 



Indirect 95 



Kainit 248 



Labor required in applying.. 306 

 Manurial value of feedstuff's. 358 

 Moderate quantities sufficient 103 



Nitrate of soda 250 



Use. of manure spreader 53 



Flint corn: 



Doolittle 28-34 



Rhode Island White Cap 35 



Varieties of 26 



Warren 28 



Flowers, development of 5 



Fodder: 



feest time to cut for 150 



Composition of maize as. . . . 356 



Cutting corn for 146 



Storing 152 



Value of 



Foods: 



Balanced and unbalanced 201 



Chemical composition of. . . . 378 



Classification of 197 



Corn a carbonaceous 



Digestible elements in dr; 



corn 347 



Efficiency of mixed 204 



Hints in selecting 199 



Rich in protein 196 



Gathering and cribbing, cost of. 308 



309 



195 



Germination, conditions of 83 



Glucose, production of 234, 314 



Green crops, preserving without 



silo 138 



Harrowing, cost of 305 



Harvester, use of 180 



Harvester and shocker com- 

 bined 1 62 



Harvesting — Chapter X 140-162 



Harvesting : 



Hints as to methods and time 181 



Old method 140 



Stage of development 141, 146 



Top stalking 182 



Harvesting in the south: 



New method, by shredder.... 170 



Old method, by hand 168 



Hight, maximum 147 



Hilling or drilling 113 



History of corn plant — Chap- 

 ter I 1-4 



Horses, experiments in feeding 207 

 Husking: 



Machine for 158 



Time required for 157 



Standing corn 154 



Imports into various countries. 353 



Inbreeding, effect of 65 



Insects: 



Army worm 260 



Black-headed maggot 250 



Black weevil 274 



Boll worm 265 



Bud worm 25G 



Chinch bug 267 



Click beetle 247 



Corn root aphis 269 



Corn root louse 269 



Corn worm ..„.' 263 



Cutworms 259 



Grain moth 272 



Grain weevils 273 



Grasshoppers 244 



Grass louse 271 



Hints in recognizing 241 



Indian meal moth 275 



Tunning jacks 247 



June beetle 254 



Larger cornstalk borer 262 



Meal snout moth .276 



Mediterranean flour moth 277 



Northern corn root worm 258 



Rice weevil 273 



Seed corn maggots 249 



Smaller cornstalk borer 264 



Southern corn root worm... 255 



Sugar-cane borer 262 



White grub 251 



Wireworms 245 



Irrigation : 



Amount of 187 



Frequency of x86 



