INDEX 



331 



?AG1 

 Sand hills, Nebraska, al- 

 falfa succeeds ...... 15, 17 



Scott Bros., yield 22, 23 



Screened alfalfa seed rec- 

 ommended S6 



Scrub-oak land for 285 



Seed, adulterated ......... S3 



Analysis 33 



Bed, securing a line .... 48 



Bees insure fertile 175 



Best costly 41 



Best from Provence .... 32 



Buckhorn in 41 



Bur clover in 39 



Bushel weight 31 



Characteristics 37 



Cheap 27, 41 



Conditions influencing 



germination 57 



Cutting time 89 



Damp 27 



Dodder described 41 



Dodder in 32 



Exports and imports .... 31 



Failures, imported 30 



Farmer to blame for 



poor bought 41 



First cutting not for ... 89 



For Illinois 29 



For Iowa 29 



For Ohio 29 



For Pennsylvania 29 



Formation, bees help in. 176 



Good costly 29 



Good, essential 27 



Harvesting 89 



Importance of pure 35 



Impurities 32 



Imported, Department of 



Agriculture 7 



Increased by bees ...... 175 



Influences afCectmg 28 



Injuries by storing ..... 30 

 Inoculation not needed,. 64 



Insects in 31 



Introduced from Europe 



3 



Kansas 29 



Kept several years 30 



Kind to buy ........... 29 



Large and small 38 



Losses in stored 30 



Moldy > 27 



Nebraska 29 



Necessity of drying ...» 90 



FAQl 

 Seed. Continued 



New preferred .• SO 



Northern growa 28 



Noxious , , 34 



Oklahoma 29 



Old 27 



Plantain in 41 



Pods, poorly tilled 89 



Poor, cause failures ....221 

 Precautions in buying .. 29 



Pure 28 



Purest in third cutting . . 91 



Quality of 27 



Quantity sowed 24, 56 



Raising, dry climate 28 



Raising humid climates 



28. 92 



Raising, Kansas 90 



Removing infertile 91 



Removing weed 91 



Returns 22, 23 



Rib grass in 41 



Roberts on pure ....... 35 



Selection 27, 28 



Sifting to remove dodder, 



42 



Size of Bur clover 39 



Size of 38 



Storing 31 



Substitution of trefoil . . 30 



Test before buying 29 



Third crop self sown .... 72 



Third cutting for 91 



Types of 37 



Utah vs. imported 30 



Value in Arizona 235 



Vitality injured in stack. 90 



Weed in alfalfa 34 



Yield 91 



Yield, Arizona .........237 



Seeding 44 



After disking unneces- 

 sary 71 



Alabama .••,......•••..231 



Arizona •..*...*•••.«•. .233 



California 238 



Colorado 244 



Drill or broadcast 55 



Fall 49 



Importance of 79 



July 66 



Kansas ............... .258 



Manure before ..«..•... 64 



Pennsylvania 291 



Preliminary .......f**., 51 



