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

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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, 240, 242

Melons, 101, 106

Mildew, 124
how to prevent, 126

Milk, 297
sours, how, 302

Milk-tester, Babcock, 304

Mineral matter, 291, 292

Moisture, 9

Mold, 123, 124, 125

Moonflower, 115

Morning-glory, 115

Moth, 148
codling, 154, 156, 164
mosquito, 150

Mulch, 12


Narcissus, 114

Nectar, 46, 47

Nitrate of soda, 24, 99, 211, 214

Nitrogen, 15, 23, 24, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 188, 246

Nitrogen-gathering crops, 15, 18, 244-260

Nodules, 36


Oats, 209-215

Oat smut, 134

Onion, 103, 104

Orchard insects, 143

Osmosis, 30

Ovary, 44

Ovipositor, 157


Paris green, 165, 209

Parsnips, 94

Pasture grasses, 238-244

Peach, 42, 59, 81, 84, 85, 87, 141, 142

Peach curl, 141, 143

Peach mold, 142

Peach mummies, 142

Peach tree, how made, 86-87

Peach-tree borer, 163, 164

Peanuts, 202-203

Pear, 44, 49, 59, 81, 130

Pear fire-blight, 130

Peas, 95, 104, 251-254

Perennials, 71, 112, 116, 118, 260

Petal, 43

Phosphoric acid, 23, 24, 186, 188, 196, 216, 244, 254

Phylloxera, 157, 158

Pipette, 305

Pistil, 43, 44

Plant, the, 25, 39

Plant disease, cause of, 122
nature of, 122
prevention of, 122, 129

Plant food, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24
from air, 39
from soil, 29
kinds of, 33

Plant louse, 150, 152, 167, 168

Plant seeding, 59, 109

Planting a tree, 76-87

Plant-propagation, 51-59
by buds, 51

Plants grown from seed, 109
from bulbs, 109

Plow, right way to, 11

Plum curculio, 156, 157

Plums, 43, 59, 81, 164

Pollen, 43, 47, 48

Pollination, 45-48
by hand, 49
cross-, 49, 50
grape, 52, 53

Potash, 23, 24, 186, 188, 196, 207, 216, 244, 246, 254

Potato, sweet, 204, 205
white, or Irish, 56, 57, 206-209

Potato beetle, 170, 209

Potato blight, 138, 209

Potato scab, 136, 205, 209

Potato seed, 56, 57

Poultry, 282-286

Prevention of plant diseases, 129, 130

Propagation of plants by buds, 58
by cuttings, 52

Protein, 212, 291, 294, 295, 297

Pruning, 83, 84-87
root, 85, 86

Pupa, 147, 150, 151

Purity of seed, 72-75

Pyrethrum powder, 165


Quince, 59


Radish, 95

Raspberry, 59

Ration, balanced, 294, 295

Ratoon, 225

Red raspberry, 59

Rice, 231-232

Roads, 332, 337

Root-hairs, 24, 25, 27, 29, 32

Root-pruning, 86

Roots, 25, 26, 27, 28

Root-tubercles, 30, 37

Rose, 109, 121, 124

Rot of fruit, 122

Rotation of crops, 8, 20, 21, 33-37, 189, 211, 217, 219, 258

Rye, 213-215


San Jose scale, 152, 153

Sap current, the, 40

Scab, 136, 209

Schoolhouses, 334

Scion, 79, 81, 82

Seed, 42

Seed purity, 72-75

Seed vitality, 72-75

Seed-germination, 74

Seed-germinator, 74

Seeding, 60, 114

Seed-selection, 56, 62, 64, 66
in the field, 56, 62, 68
of corn, 66
of cotton, 60, 61
of potatoes, 56, 57
of wheat, 64, 65

Seed-selection plat, 63, 64

Selection of seed. See Seed-selection

Sepal, 43

Sheep, 276-279

Silo, 295

Smuts, 134, 135

Soil, 1
bacteria in, 24
deepening of, 8
definition of, 1
drainage of, 14

Soil, how formed, 2, 3
how water rises in, 13
improving, 17
manuring of, 21
moisture of, 9
origin of, 1
particles of, magnified, 10
and plant, 25
retention of water by, 12
tillage of, 6
virgin, 17, 18

Sowing seed, 94

Soy beans, 256-260

Spiders, red, 121

Spiracles, 145

Spores, 123, 124, 125, 130, 135
prevention of, 130

Spraying, 137, 138, 139, 155, 156, 157, 209

Spraying outfit, 138, 155, 168, 171

Squanto, 21

Squash, 45, 95

Squash bug, 168

Stamen, 43-48

Starch, 40

Starchy food, 291

Stigma, 44-45

Stock, 79, 82

Strawberry, 45, 55,