ng, on the farm, 309-313

Feeding animals, 290
reasons for, 290, 292

Fertilization, 45

Fertilizers, 22-24

Field insects, 144-177

Figs, 51, 59

Fire-blight, 130

Flax, 226-229

Flea-beetle, 169, 172, 209

Floriculture, 89, 108

Flower, the, 42, 43

Flower box, 112

Flower gardening, 108-121

Fly, 146, 150

Formalin, 135, 136, 138

Fowls, 282-286

Fruit mold, 126, 142

Fruit rot, 122

Fruit tree, how to raise a, 76-87

Fultz, Abraham, 65

Fungi, 125, 126, 127

Garden, 235-237

Garden insects, 165-177

Gardening, market-, 89-90

Geese, 284

Geranium, 52, 54, 109, 110

Germs, 24, 127, 129, 131, 135;
_see also_ Bacteria

Girdler, 162

Girdling, 41

Glacier, 3, 4, 5

Gladiolus, 92, 111

Gooseberries, 59

Grafting, 55, 78-81
cleft, 80
root, 79
time for, 79
tongue, 79, 80

Grafting wax, 79

Grape, 51, 53, 58, 59

Grape cutting, 54

Grape phylloxera, 157, 158

Grape pollination, 52, 53

Grasses, 238-244

Grasshopper, 148, 151

Greenhouse, 91-94

Heading back, 83

Hemp, 226-229

Hens, 282-286

Heredity, 67

Hessian fly, 170

Homes, country, 330-337

Honey dew, 167

Horse, 262-270
diagrams by which to judge, 265-269
Percheron, 264
proportions of, 270
roadster, 267

Horticulture, 89-121

Host, 126

Hotbed, 91-97

How to raise a fruit tree, 76-87

Humus, 5, 20, 21, 22, 193, 207

Husker and shredder, 201

Hybrids, 49, 50, 51, 183

Insects, cage for breeding, 152
classes of, 146
eggs of, 150
eyes of, 145
field, 144, 165
garden, 144-177
general, 144
how they feed, 146, 147
orchard, 144
parts of, 145

Irish, or white, potato, 206-209
propagation of, 56, 57

Irrigation, 326-330
method of, 330

Kafir corn, 325, 326

Kainite, 214

Kerosene emulsion, 168

Land, improvement of, 17, 21, 31, 34, 244

Landscape-gardening, 89

Larva, 147, 148

Layering, 55, 57

Legumes, 31, 207, 244-260

Lettuce, 91, 93, 95

Life in the country, 330-337

Lime, 140

Lime-sulphur wash, 141, 142, 153, 154, 156

Liming land, 315-318

Louse, plant, 150, 151, 152, 167

Machines, farm, 313-315

Maize, 197

Manures, 20, 21-24

Maple sugar, 217

Market-gardening, 89, 90

Meadows, 24