INTRODUCTION XV 
portation Costs, Hybridization, Equipment of Farm Home, Evaporation of 
Fruits, Fruit Juices, Cost Tables, Care of Nursery Stock, Cranberry Culture 
in the Northwest, Forcing Orchards into Bearing, Cooperation, Strawberry 
Culiure, Cantaloup Culture, Floriculture, Fruit Growing in the Bitter Root 
Valley, Vinegar Making on the Farm, Pollination Question, Complete List 
of Important Economic Pests and Plant Diseases, Pruning, Orchard Man- 
agement, Marketing, Liquid Fertilizer, Making an Orchard Pay Before 
Coming Into Bearing, Value of Different Varieties of Apples, Cultivation, 
Propagation of Plants, Plant Physiology, in fact the whole range of subjects 
related to practical fruit and vegetable growing. 
COOKING AND PRESERVING RECIPES 
A very complete department of recipes for cooking, preserving and 
serving the various fruits and vegetables is given. The materials of this 
department were arranged by Miss Alice M. Hodge, Stout Institute, Me- 
nomonie, Wis.; Supervisor Domestic Science, Danville, Ill.; Supervisor Do- 
mestic Science, Stevens Point, Wis.; five years Supervisor Domestic Science, 
North Yakima, Wash. 
SPRAY FORMULAE 
All the known spray mixtures are given under the head of Spraying 
and Spray Materials. These are in many cases repeated in connection with 
the particular pest or disease treated. 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
In all there are about seven hundred and fifty illustrations, of which one 
hundred and twenty-four are line etchings, six hundred and twenty are half 
tones from copper plates and six are three- and four-color process plates. 
Sixty-six are full page plates, one hundred and ten are half page, others 
number five hundred and seventy-four. Altogether the illustrations cover two 
hundred and sixty pages. 
CHARTS AND TABLES 
Scattered throughout the work, there are numerous charts and tables 
covering aliogether one hundred and sixty-five pages. These charts and 
tables deal with the statistics and costs of production of the various crops 
treated, the number of plants per acre on the various plans of setting out, 
quality of fertilizer to be applied and manurial value of cover crops, amount 
of fertility removed by various crops, food values and chemical constituents 
of fruits and vegetables, frost and precipitation in the various states, etc. 
North Yakima, Washington, Wm. WorTHINGTON, 
August 24, 1914. Associate Editor. 
