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INDEX 
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Horse-radish, soil 346 
storing 347 
uses 346 
yields 348 
Horse weeders 39 
Hotbed, arrangement 104 
construction 103 
extent used 104 
filling pit 110 
frame 106 
location 104 
manure and preparation 109 
pit 105 
sash 107 
uses 113 
various types 110 
Huntingdon series 22 
Ideals 3 
Insect enemies 85 
Insecticides 87 
Irrigation 13 
Irrigation, benefits 74 
extent of 72 
furrow method 77 
hose application 78 
opportunities 72 
overhead system 79 
Kale, culture 348 
fertilizing 348 
history 348 
importance 348 
marketing 349 
planting 348 
seed required 495 
soil 348 
varieties 348 
Kerosene emulsion 88 
Kohl-rabi, culture 349 
importance 349 
marketing 350 
seed required 495 
varieties 349 
Laboratory work, definite lines. . 500 
importance 498 
methods 498 
Laborers, Italian 8 
Labor problems 7 
Labor supply 15 
Land 2 
Land, price 15 
contour 13 
Laredo series 20 
Leek • • 350 
Lettuce, classes 352, 353 
climatic requirements 354 
companion crop. . .477, 478, 48U, 
482, 488 
cultivation 358 
erremies 358 
fertilizing 356 
history 351 
importance 351 
irrigation 358 
marketing 358 
planting • • 35/ 
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Lettuce, returns 358 
seed 355 
seed required 495 
soil 355 
starting early plants 355 
varieties 351 
yields 358 
Level tillage 37 
Lime, use 65 
Limestone uplands 23 
Limestone valleys 23 
Location 11 
Location, climate 12 
selection 11 
soil selected 12 
Long Island home hamper 173 
Lufkin series 21 
Malnutrition 64 
Mammoth clover 54 
Manure, composting 47 
cost 16, 45 
cow 43 
extent used 41 
fresh versus rotten 47 
hen 44 
hog 43 
horse 43 
method of application 49 
rate of application 50 
sheep 43 
source of humus 42 
source of plant food 42 
supply 16 
time of application 49 
transportation 46 
Manurial crops, fertilizers 57 
Markers 141 
Market, kind 4 
local 5 
Market gardening 1 
Marketing 162 
principles involved 162 
Markets 11 
Market wagons 177, 178, 179 
Marking 141 
Marshall series 23 
Martynia 359, 200 
Mats 154 
Mats, use 157 
Meeker smoothing harrow 31 
Men, required t > the acre 7 
Methods of selling 15 
Miami series 24 
Mint 359 
Miscellaneous insecticides 89 
Montreal melons 376 
Motor market boat 183 
Muck and peat 22, 24 
Mushroom 199 
Muskmelon, botany 360 
classes 361 
climatic requirements 363 
companion crop 485 
crates 375 
cultivation 373 
