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Fruit Growing.

Almond Mulberries, Pruning and Grafting - 1
-- Grafting on Peach - 1 Nursery Stock in Young Orchard - 1
-- Pruning - 1 Orchard
-- Budding and Grafting - 1 -- Replanting - 1
-- Planting - 1 -- Plowing in Young - 1
-- Pollination - 1, 2 -- Pigs in - 1
-- Roots for - 1 -- Forage Under Sprayed Trees - 1
-- Longevity of - 1 Oranges
-- Seedlings - 1 -- Water and Frost - 1
-- Do Not Plant in Place - 1 -- Thinning - 1
-- Stick-Tights - 1 -- Wind-Blown Trees - 1
-- And Peach - 1 -- Handling Balled Trees - 1
Apples -- Navel Not Thornless - 1
-- Shy-Bearing - 1 -- Over-Size - 1
-- Not on Quince - 1 -- Budding or Grafting in Orchard - 1, 2, 3
-- Stock For - 1 -- Under-Pruning Trees - 1
-- And Alfalfa - 1 -- Keeping Trees too Low - 1
-- Top Grafting - 1, 2 -- Dying Back of Trees - 1
-- Mildew on Seedlings - 1 -- Young Trees Dropping Fruit - 1
-- Pruning - 1, 2, 3, 4 -- Training - 1
-- Will They Be Same Kind - 1 -- Crops Between Trees - 1
-- Places for - 1 -- Navels and Valencias - 1
-- Grafting in Place - 1 -- Seedlings - 1
-- Resistant Roots - 1 -- Acres to One Man - 1
-- For Hot Place - 1 -- Roots for Trees - 1
-- Die-Back of - 1 -- Soil and Situation - 1
-- Storage of - 1 -- Transplanting - 1
-- Root-Grafts - 1 -- Protecting Young Trees - 1
Apricots -- Not on Osage - 1
-- Pruning - 1 -- No Pollenizer for Navels - 1
-- Shy-Bearing - 1 -- Water and Frost - 1
-- Propagation - 1 -- Frosted, What to do - 1
-- Renewing Old - 1 -- Pruning Frosted Trees - 1
-- Summer Pruning - 1 -- Pruning - 1
Bananas - In California - 1 Olives
Berries -- Cultivating - 1
-- Pruning Himalayas - 1 -- Moving Old Trees - 1
-- Hardiness of Hybrids - 1 -- Darkening Pickled - 1
-- With Perfect Flowers - 1 -- Seedlings Must Be Grafted - 1
-- Pruning Loganberries - 1 -- Oranges and Peppers - 1
-- Strawberry Planting - 1 -- Budding Seedlings - 1, 2
-- Blackberries for Drying - 1 -- Budding Old - 1
-- Planting Bush Fruits - 1 -- from Small Cuttings - 1
-- Strawberry Plants - 1 -- from Large Cuttings - 1
-- Strawberries in Succession - 1 -- Trimming Up - 1
-- Gooseberries, Limitations of - 1 -- Canning - 1
Carobs In California - 1 -- Renewing Trees - 1
Cherries -- Growing from Seed - 1
-- For Hot Place - 1 -- Neglected Trees - 1
-- Wild - 1 Peaches
-- Pruning - 1, 2 -- Lye-peeling - 1
-- Training Grafts - 1 -- Aged Trees - 1
-- Restoring Tress - 1, 2 -- Renewing Orchard - 1
-- Pollination - 1 -- Will He Have - 1
Citron Curing - 1 -- Fillers in Apple Orchard - 1
Citrus Fruit -- Grafting on Almond - 1
-- Temperatures - 1 -- on Apricot - 1
-- Broken Roots - 1 -- Replanting after Root Knot - 1
Filbert Growing - 1 -- Buds in Bearing Trees - 1
Figs -- Pollen Must Be Same Kind - 1
-- Suckers - 1 -- Grafting on - 1
-- No Gopher-Proof Roots - 1 -- Young Trees Fail to Start - 1
Fruit Trays, Cleaning - 1 -- Planting in Alfalfa Sod - 1
Fruit Trees Pecan Growing - 1
-- Depth of Soil - 1 Pears
-- What Slopes - 1 -- Pollination of Bartletts - 1, 2
-- and Overflow - 1 -- Comice - 1
-- Roots for - 1 -- Not on Peach - 1
-- and Sunburn - 1 -- Dwarf Pears - 1
-- Budding - 1 -- Yield in Drying - 1
-- Starting from Seed - 1 -- Problems - 1
-- Square or Triangular Planting - 1 -- Blight and Bees - 1
-- Planting on Clearings - 1 -- on Quince - 1
-- Dipping Roots of - 1 Plowing, Young Orchard - 1
-- Preparing for Planting - 1 Plums - Pollenizing - 1
-- Depth of Planting - 1 Prunes
-- In Wet Place - 1 -- On Almond - 1
-- Cutting Back at Planting - 1 -- Re-grafting Silver - 1
-- Branching Young - 1 -- French or Italian - 1
-- Coal Tar and Asphaltum - 1 -- Myrobalan Seedlings - 1
-- Regular Bearing of - 1 -- Drying - 1
-- Avoiding Crotches - 1 -- Sugar - 1
-- Crotch-Splitting - 1 -- Glossing Dried - 1
-- Strengthening - 1 -- Price on Size Basis - 1
-- Covering Wounds - 1 Pruning
-- Covering Sunburned Bark - 1 -- Times - 1, 2
-- Gravel Streak - 1 -- Shaping a Young Tree - 1
-- Transplanting Old - 1 -- Late - 1
-- Dwarfing - 1 -- Too Much - 1
-- Seedling - 1 -- In Frosty Places - 1
-- Filling Holes in - 1 -- Low Growth - 1
-- Deferring Bloom - 1 -- Are Tap-Roots Essential - 1
-- Repairing Rabbit Injuries - 1 -- For a Bark Wound - 1
-- Crops Between - 1 -- Bridging Gopher Girdles - 1
-- Scions for Mailing - 1 Roots, Whole or Piece - 1
-- Scions from Young Trees - 1 Soil, Binding Plant for Winter - 1
-- Whitewashing - 1 Spineless Cactus Fruit - 1
-- Deciduous Planting - 1 Stumps, Medication to Kill - 1
-- On Coast Sands - 1 Sucker, What will it Be - 1
-- Over Underflow - 1 Walnuts
Grapefruit and Nuts - 1 -- Early Bearing - 1
Grapes -- Handling Seedlings - 1, 2
-- Dry Farming - 1 -- How to Start - 1
-- Cutting Frosted Canes - 1 -- Planting - 1
-- Dipping Seedless - 1 -- Pruning - 1, 2
-- Zante Currant - 1 -- Grafting - 1
-- Vines for Arbor - 1 -- on Oaks - 1
-- Pruning Old Vines - 1 -- Eastern or California Blacks - 1
-- Bleeding Vines - 1 -- Ripening - 1
-- Scant Moisture - 1 -- Cutting Below Dead Wood - 1
-- Sulphuring for Mildew - 1 -- in Alfalfa - 1
-- Sugar in Canned - 1 -- in the Hills - 1
-- Planting - 1 -- Increase Bearing - 1
Grafting - 1 -- Temperature and Moisture - 1
Grafting Wax - 1 -- from Seed - 1
June Drop - 1 -- High-grafted - 1
Killing Moss on Tree - 1
Interplanting, Wrong idea - 1
Lemons
-- Citrus Budding - 1
-- No Citrus Fruits on Roots - 1

Vegetable Growing.

Artichokes Onions - Continued
-- Jerusalem - 1 -- from Sets - 1
-- Globe - 1 -- Crops from Seed - 1
-- Growing - 1 Peas
Asparagus Growing - 1 -- Canada for Seed - 1
Beets -- Growing Niles - 1
-- Leases for Sugar - 1 Peanuts
-- Topping Mangel Wurzels - 1 -- Harvesting - 1
Brussels Sprouts - Blooming - 1 -- and Adobe - 1
Bean Potatoes
-- Growing - 1, 2 -- Cutting - 1, 2
-- Hoeing - 1 -- Planting - 1
-- as Nitrogen Gatherer - 1 -- Northern Seed - 1
-- Yard-Long - 1 -- Planted Early - 1
-- Why Waiting - 1 -- Balls - 1
-- Blackeye - 1 -- Seed-ends - 1
-- Are Cow-Peas - 1 -- and the Moon - 1
-- Horse-Bean Growing - 1 -- Planting Whole - 1
-- Growing Castor - 1 -- How to Cut Seed - 1
-- Inoculation - 1 -- Scab - 1
-- On Irrigated Mesas - 1 -- Double-cropping - 1
California Grown Seed - 1 -- Keeping - 1
Cloth for Hotbeds - 1 -- Yield - 1
Celery, Blanching - 1 -- New for Seed - 1
Chili Peppers - 1 -- Growing - 1
Corn -- After Alfalfa - 1
-- in Sacramento Valley - 1 -- Flat or Hill - 1
-- in Warm Ground - 1 -- Bad Conditions for - 1
-- Sweet, in California - 1 -- On Heavy Land - 1
Cucumbers -- Storage for Seed - 1
-- Forcing - 1 -- and Frosts - 1
-- Growing - 1 -- Sweet, Plant Growing - 1
Continuous Cropping - 1 -- Growing - 1
Ginger in California - 1 -- Between Trees - 1
In Cold, Dark, Draft - 1 Less Water, More Heat - 1
Licorice in California - 1 Radish, Giant Japanese - 1
Lentils, Growing - 1 Rhubarb, Rotting - 1
Lettuce, Transplanting - 1 Soil for Vegetables - 1
Melons Squashes Dislike Hardship - 1
-- Winter - 1 Sunflowers, Harvesting - 1
-- Ripe - 1 Tomatoes
Onions -- Irrigating - 1
-- Seeds and Sets - 1 -- Big Worms - 1
-- Ripening - 1 -- Loss of Bloom - 1

Grain and Forage Crops

Alfalfa Cover Crop for Hop Yard - 1
-- Improving Land - 1 Cow Peas in San Joaquin - 1
-- Cultivating - 1 Cowpeas
-- Suburban Patch - 1 -- Growing - 1
-- and Bermuda - 1 -- and Canadian Peas - 1, 2
-- and Salt Grass - 1 Crop Rotation - 1
-- and Alkali - 1 Dry Plowing for Grain - 1
-- on Adobe - 1 Fall Feed - 1
-- and Soil Depth - 1 Forage Plants
-- Irrigating - 1 -- in Foothills - 1
-- Curing - 1 -- Winter - 1
-- Preparation of Land - 1 -- Poultry - 1
-- Where Grown - 1 Flax, New Zealand - 1
-- Sowing - 1, 2 Grasses, for Bank-holding - 1
-- and Foxtail - 1 Grass Seeds, Scattering - 1
-- Which is Best - 1 Hay
-- and Dry Land - 1 -- Midsummer Sowing - 1
-- Inoculating - 1 -- Loose by Measure - 1
-- Unirrigated - 1 -- Oat, When to Cut - 1
-- Time to Cut - 1 -- Rye for - 1
-- and Overflow - 1 -- Frosted Grain - 1
-- No Nurse Crop - 1 -- Summer Crop - 1
-- Re-seeding - 1 Heating and Fermentation - 1
-- Taking Bloat from - 1 Insect Powder - 1
-- What Crop for Seed - 1 Johnson Grass - 1
-- Siloing First Crop - 1 Jersey Kale - 1
-- Soil For - 1 Kafir and Egyptian Corn - 1
-- Handling Young - 1 Lawns, Mossy - 1
-- With Gypsum - 1 Moonshine Farming- 1
Alfileria, Winter Pasture - 1 Oats and Rust - 1
Barley Pasturing
-- California Varieties - 1 -- Young Grain - 1
-- Chevalier - 1 -- Hurry-up - 1
-- on Moist Land - 1 -- California Winter - 1
-- and Alfalfa - 1 Rape and Milo - 1
Beet Sugar, Home-made - 1 Rye in California - 1
Beets Rye
-- and Potatoes - 1 -- Grass, Italian - 1
-- for Stock - 1 -- better than - 1
-- Stock, Summer Start - 1 Speltz - 1
Berseem - 1 Spurry, Giant - 1
Bermuda Grass - 1 Soil Light, Scant Moisture - 1
Bermuda Grass, Objectionable - 1 Sunflowers
Black Medic - 1 -- and Soy Beans - 1
Broom Corn - 1 -- Russian - 1
Buckwheat Growing - 1 Spineless Cactus - 1
Clover Sorghum
-- and Drought - 1 -- Smutty - 1
-- for Wet Lands- 1 -- Late Sown - 1
-- Crimson - 1 Sorghums
-- for Shallow Land - 1 -- for Seed - 1
-- for High Ground-Water - 1 -- for Planting - 1
-- Not an Alfalfa - 1 Sacaline - 1
-- Sweet, Cover Crop - 1 Special Crops - 1
Corn Teosinte - 1
-- for Silage - 1 Vetches
-- Irrigation for - 1 -- for San Joaquin - 1
-- Eastern Seed - 1 -- for Hay - 1
-- Suckering - 1 Wheat, Seven-headed - 1
-- and Cow Peas - 1

Soils, Fertilizing and Irrigation.

Alkali Soil Irrigating - Continued
-- and Trees - 1 -- Sewage - 1
-- Treatment of - 1 -- Creamery Wastes - 1
-- and Gypsum - 1, 2 -- House Waste - 1
-- Distribution - 1 Intensive Cultivation - 1
-- Plants Will Tell - 1 Irrigate or Cultivate - 1
-- and Litmus - 1 Irrigation
Alfalfa over Hardpan - 1 -- Underground - 1
Ashes -- of Potatoes - 1
-- and Tomatoes - 1 -- of Apples - 1
-- in Garden - 1, 2 -- of Walnuts - 1
-- and Poultry Manure - 1 -- Summer and Fall - 1
Blasting -- and Fertilizers - 1
-- or Tiling - 1 Liming Chicken Yard - 1
-- Effects of - 1 Legumes, Two in Year - 1
Barnyard Manure and Alkali - 1 Lime
Bones for Grape Vines - 1 -- Caustic not Absorbent - 1
Can a Man Farm - 1 -- on Sandy Soil - 1
Charcoal, Medicine, not Food - 1 -- Alfalfa - 1
Cover Crop, Best Legume - 1 -- Sugar Factory Fertilizer - 1
Cowpeas, best cover crop - 1 Manure
Cementing Soils, Improvement - 1 -- Water, Cultivation - 1
Cultivation, Depth of - 1 -- Ashes - 1
Draining Wet Spot - 1 -- Poultry - 1
Dry Plowing -- too Much - 1
-- Treatment - 1 -- Stable and Bean Straw - 1
-- and Sowing - 1 -- Pit Roofing - 1
Dynamite, More Needed - 1 -- Value of Animals - 1
Electro-Agriculture - 1 -- Fresh and Dry - 1
Fenugreek as Cover Crop - 1 -- and Shavings - 1
Fertilizer -- Sheep, and Goat - 1
-- in Tree Holes -1 -- Hog and Potatoes - 1
-- Best for Sand - 1 -- Vineyard - 1
-- Prunings as - 1 -- and Nitrate - 1
-- Suburban Wastes - 1 -- with Clover - 1
-- Composting Garden Wastes - 1 Nitrate, Late Applications of - 1
-- for Sweet Potatoes - 1 Oranges Over Ground Water - 1
-- Pear Orchard - 1 Organic Matter, Needs - 1
-- Olives - 1, 2 Oranges
-- Consult Trees - 1 -- How Much Water - 1
-- Nursery - 1 -- Damping Off - 1
-- Almond Hulls and Sawdust - 1 Planting in Mud - 1
-- Fruit Trees - 1 Potash or Water - 1
-- Oranges - 1 Reviving Blighted Trees - 1
-- Seed Farm Refuse - 1 Soils
-- Slow Stuff - 1 -- and Oranges - 1
-- Alfalfa - 1 -- Crop Changes - 1
-- Corn - 1 -- Moisture Defects - 1
-- Scrap Iron - 1 -- Refractory - 1
-- Kelp as - 1 -- Suitable for Fruits - 1
-- Nitrate of Soda - 1 -- Blowing - 1
-- Strawberries - 1 -- Improving Heavy - 1
Ground Water - 1 -- Reclaimed Swamp - 1
Gypsum -- Improving Uncovered - 1
-- on Grain Land - 1 -- Sand for Clay - 1
-- and Alfalfa - 1 -- Sour - 1
-- What it Does - 1 -- and Old Plaster - 1
-- How Much - 1 -- Handling Orchard - 1
Garden Peas for Green Manure - 1 -- Depth for Citrus - 1
Grape Pomace Summer Fallow - 1, 2
-- Handling - 1 Sub-soil, Plow for - 1
-- Abuse of - 1 Stable Drainage for Fruit - 1
Hardpan and Low Water - 1 Seeds, Soaking - 1
Humus Trees
-- Burning Out - 1 -- over High-water - 1
-- Straw for - 1 -- Plowing toward or from - 1
Irrigating -- Irrigated or not - 1
-- Palms - 1 -- Too Much Water - 1
-- Condensation for - 1 -- Too Little Water - 1
-- Winter - 1 Thomas Phosphate, Applying - 1
-- Young Trees - 1 Water
-- Alfalfa - 1 -- Artesian - 1
-- How Much for Crops - 1 -- from Wells or Streams - 1

Live Stock and Dairy.

Buttermilk Paint - 1 Granary, Rat-proof- 1
Butter Hogs, Best Breed- 1
-- Going White- 1 Jersey
-- Fat, What it is- 1 -- Short-horn Cross- 1
-- Why not Come- 1 -- Bad Tempered- 1
-- Fat in Cream- 1 Legal Milk House- 1
Breeding Milk
-- Young Mare- 1 -- Strong- 1
-- in Purple- 1 -- Separator as Purifier- 1
-- Line- 1 -- Certified- 1
Cream That Won't Whip- 1 Self-Milker, Cure for- 1
Cows in Hill Country- 1 Silos, Heating not Dangerous- 1
Concrete Stable Floor- 1 Shingles, Make Durable- 1
Drying Persistent Milker- 1 Trespassing Live Stock- 1
Foot-hill Dairy- 1 Whitewashes
Free Martin- 1 -- for Buildings- 1
Grade, What it is- 1 -- Government- 1

-- for Spray- 1

Feeding Farm Animals

Alfalfa and Concentrates - 1 Pumpkins
Barley, Rolled -- Feeding - 1
-- for Cows - 1 -- Keeping - 1
-- for Hay Feeding - 1 Pasture and Cover Crop - 1
Brewers' Grains for Cows - 1 -- Fall and Winter - 1
Balanced Rations - 1 -- Summer for Hogs - 1
Corn Stalks Pigs
-- and Concentrates - 1 -- and Pie-Melons - 1
-- Cut for Silage - 1 -- Grain or Pasture for - 1
Calves, Feeding - 1 -- Growing on Roots - 1
Feed Sheep, Winter Feeding - 1
-- for Cows - 1 Sorghum
-- Family Cow - 1 -- Feeding - 1
-- Young Pigs - 1 -- Silage - 1
Grape Pomace as Hog Feed - 1 -- Dry Fodder - 1
Grain for Horses - 1 Sugar Beets and Silage - 1
Horses, Vetch for - 1 Stover - 1
Horse Beans and Melons - 1, 2 Stock Beets
Hay -- Storing - 1
-- Salting - 1 -- Kind of - 1
-- Chopping for Horses - 1 Spelt, Value of - 1
-- Cut Alfalfa - 1 Steers on Alfalfa - 1
-- Storing Cut Alfalfa - 1 Silo, Size of - 1
-- Grinding - 1 Soiling Crops - 1
Kale for Cow Feed - 1 Wheat or Barley
Plow Horses, Feed for - 1 -- for Hogs - 1

-- for Feeding - 1

Diseases of Animals.

Abscess of Gland - 1, 2 Kidney Trouble - 1, 2
Abnormal Thirst - 1 Lumpy jaw - 1
Bloat, Easement - 1 Lumps in Teat - 1
Bowel Trouble - 1 Loss of Cud - 1
Bloody Milk - 1 Mange, Is it - 1
Barren Heifers - 1 Mangy Cow - 1
Blind Teat - 1 Musty Corn for Pigs - 1
Bovine Rheumatism - 1 Nail Puncture - 1
Bleeding for Blackleg - 1 Neck Swelling - 1
Chronic Indigestion - 1, 2 Pregnancy of Mare - 1
Castration of Colt - 1 Paralysis - 1
Chronic Cough - 1 Pneumonia in Pigs - 1
Cowpox - 1 Paralysis of Sow - 1
Calf Dysentery - 1 Rickets in Hogs - 1
Cleft Hoof - 1 Scabby Swelling - 1
Cocked Ankles - 1 Skin Disease, Fatal - 1
Cleanse Cows - 1 Scours - 1
Caked Bag - 1 Side-bone - 1
Cow Chewing Bones - 1 Shoulder injury - 1
Depraved Appetite - 1, 2 Stiff joints - 1
Dentist Needed - 1 Swelling in Dewlap - 1
Dehorning - 1 Sterile Cow - 1
Forage Poisoning - 1 Supernumerary Teat - 1
Fungus Poisoning - 1 Sore
Fly Repellants - 1 -- Eyes - 1
Flea Destroyers - 1 -- in Pigs - 1
Garget - 1 Sow, Over-fat - 1
Gland Enlarged - 1 Tuberculous Milk - 1
Heaves - 1 Uterus, Diseased - 1
Horse with Itch - 1 Urination Defective - 1
Horses Feet, Treatment - 1 Warts on Horse - 1
Hog Cholera - 1 Worms in Horses - 1
Hog Sickness - 1 Wound
Infectious Mastitis - 1 -- Sore - 1
Irritation of Udder - 1, 2 -- in Teat- 1
Injury to Udder - 1 -- Swellings - 1

Poultry Keeping.

Bowel Trouble in Chicks - 1 Roup
Cure for Feather-Eating - 1 -- Treatment - 1
Cannibal Chicks - 1 -- in Turkeys - 1
Caponizing - 1 Quick Roosters and Laying Hens - 1
Chicken Pox - 1 Preserving Eggs - 1
Clipping Hens - 1 Poultry
Dipping Fowls - 1 -- Tonic - 1
Disinfectants - 1 -- in Orchard - 1
Dry Mash - 1 Point on Mating - 1
Feeding for Eggs - 1 Poultry Diarrhea - 1
Grain for Chickens - 1 Rupture of Oviduct - 1
Liver Disease - 1 Rape for Chickens - 1
Limber Neck - 1 Sunflower Seeds for Chicks - 1
Melons for Fowls - 1 Teaching Chicks to Perch - 1
Open Front Houses - 1

Pests and Diseases of Plants.

Apple-Leaf Aphis - 1 Gumming Prune Trees - 1
Bordeaux Mixture - 1 Gopher Poison - 1
Bean Weevil - 1 Lime-Sulphate Formula - 1
Borers on Olive Twigs - 1 Melon Lice - 1
Blister Mite on Walnuts - 1 Mottle Leaf, Cause of - 1
Black Scale, Fumigation - 1 Potato Scab - 1
Cutworms in Young Trees - 1 Raspberry Cane Borer - 1
Control Sunburn and Borers - 1
-- of Pear Slug - 1 Scale on Apricots- 1
-- of Grasshoppers - 1 Spray for Red Spider - 1
-- of Red Spider - 1 Slugs in Garden - 1
-- of Squash Bugs - 1 Thrips, Finding - 1
Corn Worm - 1 Wooly Aphis - 1

Wire Worms - 1

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