Agriculture for Beginners - Daniel Harvey Hill (love letters to the dead .TXT) 📗

tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">78, 83-85, 123
fire-blight of, 130

Apple-tree tent caterpillar, 161, 162

Arsenate of lead, 156, 157

Ashes, 207

Asparagus, 98


Babcock milk-tester, 304

Bacteria, 24, 127, 128, 129, 131, 133

Balanced ration, 294-295

Barley, 215-217

Beans, 95, 98

Bee, 286-290

Beehive, anti-robbing entrance of, 289

Beet, 95, 96
sugar-, 218-221

Beet sugar, 218

Beetle, 146, 148
cucumber, 102
potato, 170

Biennials, 70

Bird homes, 322

Birds, 318-323

Black knot, 140

Blackberry, 59

Blight, 106
eggplant, 103
pear and apple, 130
potato, 138, 209
tomato, 106

Bordeaux mixture, 127, 141, 142, 156, 209

Borer, peach, 163, 164

Breeding-cage, insect, 152

Buckwheat, 229-230

Bud variation, 58

Budding, 55, 81-82

Buds, 51, 59

Bug, 147

Bulbs, 109, 110, 111

Burbank, Luther, 80

Butter, 297, 300

Butterfly, 146, 148, 149


Cabbage, 93, 95, 96, 99

Cabbage worm, 165, 166

Caladium, 111

Cambium, 79, 131

Cankerworm, 159, 160

Canna, 116

Cantaloupes, 101

Cape jasmine, 110

Capillarity, 10

Carbohydrates, 291, 292, 295

Carbon, 39, 40, 291

Carbon disulphide, 169

Carbonic acid gas, 6, 317

Caterpillar, 147, 149, 161

Cattle, 270-275
beef type of, 272
dairy type of, 273
improving of, 274

Cauliflower, 91, 140

Celery, 100, 101

Cherries, 59, 81, 164

Chinch bug, 165, 167

Churn, the, 297, 299, 300

Churning, 299

Cleft grafting, 80

Clover, 187, 249-251

Club root, 140

Cocoon, 147, 148, 150, 151

Codling moth, 154, 156, 164

Cold-frame, 93-97, 101

Colostrum, 297

Consumption, germ of, 129

Corms, 111

Corn, 197-202
blossom of, 45
freezing of seed, 75
roots of, 27, 28
selection of seed, 66, 67, 68

Cotton, 180-188
resistant variety of, 132
Sea Island, 132, 182
short-stapled, 182

Cotton wilt, 142

Cotton-boll weevil, 173

Cotton-seed meal, 24, 225, 295

Cow
Aberdeen Angus, 272
Galloway, 274
Holstein, 275
Jersey, 273
care of, 296
the dairy, 293-296

Cowpeas, 251-254

Cream, 297, 298

Crop-rotation, 33-37

Crops, 178-237
rotation of, 20, 33, 189, 211, 217, 219, 228
value of, per acre, 179

Cross section, 26

Crosses, 49

Cross-pollination, 48

Cucumber, 73, 101

Cucumber beetle, 102

Curculio, plum, 156

Currant, 59

Cuttings, 52, 53, 54, 55, 109

Cyclamen, 115


Dahlia, 111, 112, 116

Dairy rules, 301

Dairying, 297-301

Dendrolene, 160

Diphtheria, germ of, 129

Diseases of plants, 122-143

Domestic animals, 261-292

Drainage, benefits of, 15

Dry farming, 323-326

Ducks, 282


Eggplants, 102, 103

Ensilage, 295


Farm crops, 178-237

Farm garden, 235-237

Farm tools, 313-315

Farming on dry lands, 323-330

Fats, 291, 292, 295

Feed stuffs, 238-260
digestible nutrients in, 290-292
growing, 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,