612 



INDEX 



Spraying, program, costs, 353 



with the wind, 344 

 Spreading materials for sprays, 285 

 Spring planting of orchards, 173 

 Spring plowing, 419 

 Spurs, fruit, location of, 208 

 Square system of orchard plant- 

 ing, 181 

 Staking field for planting, 190 

 Stationary spray plant, 337 



advantages, 338 

 Sticking materials for sprays, 285 

 Stocks for fruit trees, 205 

 Stomach poisons, 274 

 Storage, cellar, 60 

 charges for apple, 56 

 cold, 54 

 common, 54 

 above ground, 60 

 construction of, 60 

 determining type to build, 58 

 operating, 63 

 plans of, 59, 61 

 ventilating, 63 

 cost of constructing, 56 

 determining whether to buy or 



build, 55 

 factors for operating common, 57 

 forms of, for apple, 54 

 gas, 67 

 grapes, 525 

 holdings of apples, 52 

 modified atmosphere, 67, 146 

 pear, 122 



picking apples for, 64 

 scald, apple, 66 

 temperature, for apple, 65 



for peaches, 118 

 Storing, apple, 51 



determining advisability of, 51 

 peach, 118 

 plum, 125 



Strawberries, commercial produc- 

 tion, 469 

 containers, 485 

 fertilizers, 480 

 frozen fruit, 148 

 growing, 468 



harvesting and marketing, 485 



insects and diseases, 483 



irrigation, 482 



location and soils, 468 



nutrient solutions in planting, 

 479 



picking, 486 



planting, 475 



planting systems, 473 



planting tools, 477 



pollination, 471 



preparing field, 470 



selecting varieties, 470 



shipping, 488 



soil management, 479 



time of planting, 472 



treatment after harvest, 489 



varieties, commercial, 492 

 everbearing, 491 



winter protection, 484 



yields, 488 

 Strip culture, 417 

 Sulfate, nicotine, 277 

 Sulfur, 283 



colloidal, 284 



wettable, 283 

 Summer pruning, 225 

 Supplemental farm enterprises, 168 

 Systems of training grapes, 511 



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Tank, sprayer, 320 

 Tar-distillate emulsions, dilution 

 table, 290 



