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Part X.
Index
A
Acacia-growing from seed 27 Apricot - on peach root 21 Alfalfa - for cow or sheep 137 - silage 48, 134, 138
Alcohol-denatured 26 - Pests of 231 - for hogs 118, 119 Alfalfa - sowing 47
Almond - with lemons 14 - for sheep 202 Alfilerilla or "filaree" 52
- irrigation of 64 Alfalfa - fruit trees in 5 Alkali
- needs drainage 14 - and barley straw 129 - ground 138 - and sorghum 41
- old trees, renewing 13 - and beets 125 - gypsum 46, 47 - beet tops for 59
- on heavy soil 13 - and corn 49 - harrow or disk 45 - too much for peaches 61
- on peach root 21 - and "filaree" 52 - hay, storing 47 - treatment of spots 59
- pests of 233 - and grains 43 - leaf spot 45 Ankle swelling 151
- pruning 11 - and Russian thistle 46 - meal and other feeds 139 Anthrax 167, 168
Apples - and weeds 48 - on heavy land 47 Arsenical insecticides 214
- not grafted on pears 8 - as fertilizer 83 - on sandy land 45 Ashes and mottle-leaf 77
- pests of 229 - chopped hay 137 - pests of 235 Asparagus, pests of 238
Apricot - cost of silage 139 - pumping for 70
- elevations for 14 - dodder killing 48 - restoring 47
B
Balanced ration 109 Beans - after grain 29 Bermuda grass- on reservoir bottom 67 Buckwheat - cover crop 55
Bands on trees 224 - blackeye and Tepary 29 Birth - abnormal 169 - feed and fertilizer 129
Barley 39 - feed value 130 Blackberry - growing 55
- alone for hogs 120 - hay and straw 131 - bearing 23 Bulls
- for pigs 115 - pests of 235 - pests of 233 - dehorned 90
- for silo 135 - soy 49 Bloat - impotent 169
- on salt marsh 40 Bees and fruit blossoms 26 - soda not good for 159 - self-abuse 170
- mite in crushed 132 - injuring fruits 16 - turpentine for 168 - tongue swollen 169
- rolled for fowls 190 Beets Boar (see hogs). - tuberculosis 169
- rolled, storing 132 - and alfalfa hay 125 Bordeaux mixture 226 Bur clover 53, 54
- straw and alfalfa 129 - feeding 124 - paste 227 - bacteria on 82
- smutty, feeding 123 - pulp feeding dried 112 - with arsenates 239 Butter
- straw for cows 112 - stock 30 - with Paris green 240 - bitter 96
Barn for cows 104 - summer planted 30 Bran mash for grasshopper 216 - fat in cream 98
Beans - tops for alkali 59 Branding - squeezer for 88
- and grain 44 - transplanted 31 Breeding crate for hogs 100
- and onions 29 Bermuda grass 53 Buckwheat
C
Cabbage - pests of 236 Chicks Corn - stalks as manure 43, 81 - pumpkin seeds for 111
Calf - air and exercise 187 - winter pasture 57 - rations for 109, 110
- blackleg 156 - bran 191 Cover crop - ring worm 172
- blind 154 - broilers, feeding 192 - dry vegetation for 84 - self-sucker 89
- colds 155, 156 - cottonseed meal 191 - legumes for 84 - small barn for 104
- convulsions 156 - crippled 194 - nettles as 82 - sores on belly 165
- hide, curing 106 - crop catarrh 207 - to find best 84 - squashes for 111
- lice 157 - feed, home mixed 191 Cow - sweet potatoes for 113
- lung worms 155 - feeding 193 - abortion 164 - swelling on milk veins 165
- navel rupture 155 - fleas 205 - after calving 169 - swelling on shoulder 165, 166
- over-fed 154 - leg colors 188 - anthrax 167 - swelling on throat 168
- pneumonia 155 - marking 186 - barley straw for 112 - ticks 171
- urine bloody 156 - runts, handling 187 - beet pulp for 112 - tonic 157
- white scours 154 - scabby heads 209 - before calving 93 - vaginitis 166
Calves - scant feathering 204 - bloody milk 160 - warbles 171
- on separator milk 107 - shelter for 188 - calving troubles 160 - watermelons for 126
- without milk 107 Cholera immune hogs 99 - cottonseed meal for 113 - winter milking 90
Calving - preparatory treatment 163 Citron fruit not melon 18 - dehorning 89 - yield of 92
Canker of feet 149 Citrus fruits, pests of 230 - dehorning trouble 167 Coyotes, baits and poisons 245
Carbon bisulfid 225 Clover - Japan 58 - drying off 93 Cream
- for borers 225 Cocoanut meal - falling off in milk 108 - butter fat in 98
- for root-pests 225 - feeding 114 - fattening old 109 - testing 97
- for store-house pests 225 - for hogs 120 - for dairy 92 - what kind to sell 98
Carrots - pests of 238 Colt - herpes 172 Credit for cows 94
Cattle - crooked leg 143 - indigestion 157 Cropping, double 44
- stray, law on 105 - ringbone on 143 - losing milk yield 159 Crown gall, planting after 7
- spaying 90 - sore jaw 142 - milk fever 163, 164 Crude oil emulsion 221
- weighing condition 89 - staggering 143 - money to buy 94 Cucumber, pests of 237
- winter maintenance 136 Copper fungicides 226, 227 - mouth trouble 165 Cultivation to save moisture 60
Cauliflower - pests of 236 Corn - not breeding 158, 159 Currants, pests of 224
Cottonseed meal 113 - best state for forage 129 - oleander poison 172 Cut, swelling of 142
Celery - pests of 238 - ear worm 31 - on twenty acres 88 Cuttings, ways with 15
Cheat in California 41 - feeding 124 - pasturing or rack-feeding 108 Cutworms, poisons for 216
Cheesemaking, small 97 - fodder, stacking 55 - paunch impaction 166 Cow peas for bogs 130
Cherry - frosted in silo 140 - pica 157 Cowpox, treatment for 170
- dying back 13 - moldy 120 - pox 170
- not bearing 12 - pests of 238 - prunes for 133
- pests of 232 - second growth 49 - pumpkins not drying 111
D
Dairy 85 Distillate emulsion 220 Dog - St. Vitus dance 182 Duck - fall hatching 198
- law 94 Ditches - rights of way 71 - swelling on jaw 183 - feeding 197
- tenant arrangements 93 Dog Dodder, destroying 48 - milk for 198
Date palms - planting 8 - constipation 183 Drainage, for fruit trees 14 - quack-less 198
Deer, repelling 240 - ear-mite 182 Draining low places 74 Dust sprays 222
Dehorning cows 89 - mange 182 Ducks - and Bordeaux 222
Diet, what is light? 142 - rabies 183 - dying in shell 197
Diseases of animals 142 - ring worm 183 - eggs, chances in 196
E
Egg plant, pests of 236 Emmer - for dry soils 40 Emulsions and miscible oils 219 - carbolate 239
Egyptian corn (see sorghum). - for hogs 121 - and tobacco 221 Estray - law on 105
F
Farcy incurable 144 Fertilizers - when to apply 80 Formaldehyde, antidote for 144 Fruits - planted too deep 9
Farrowing pen 101 - with fertilizers 79 Frog - cracks in 143 - planting in mud 18
Feeding animals 107 - young trees 76 - farming 106 - planting in squares 8
Feeds Feterita 42 Foxtail - pruning 10, 11
- for fattening 109 Fig - in pigs' eyes 175 - replanting orchard 23
- balanced rations 110 - from cuttings 17 - swellings 168 - slitting bark bound 12
Fertilization or irrigation 72 - insect 17 Fruits - splitting 12
Fertilizers 59 Fistula - bark injured by oil 12 - subsoiling for 60
- alfalfa as 83 - on hog 178 - blossom honey 26 - thinning 9
- corn stalks as 81 - salivary 148 - cover crops 17 - vine pruning 16
- for citrus trees 80 - shoulder 152 - crown gall 7 Fruit trees
- for grape vines 80 Fly - die-back 13 - after submergence 6
- for vegetables 80 - repellents 170 - disinfecting holes 6 - in alfalfa 5
- pie melons as 76 - warble 171 - fall pruning 10 - in old vineyard 15
- potato vines as 76 Foot cracks - for hogs 122 - transplanting 6, 10
- poultry manure 76 - on hog 180 - for stock 133 - young trees with old 14
- sweet pea straw as 82 - in pigs 175 - grafting 8 Fumigation for insects 225, 226
- tomato vines as 81 Forage plants 38 - how much water 66 Fungus diseases and fungicides 226
G
Garbanzos Goats - Angora 103 Grapes - for horses 133 Grass - no sod on dry land 49
- after barley 29 - which pays best 103 - grafting 9 - rye grass in California 51, 57
- feed value 130 - feed for 123 Grapes - pests of 233 - Sudan 51
Garget 161 - milch 103 - replaced by trees 15 - Timothy 54
Garlic Gooseberry - pests of 234 - resistance of Tokay 17 Grasshoppers - poisons for 216
- growing 32 Gophers, killing 242 - stakes for 16 Grass-nut pasture 56
- pests of 235 Grains 38 - vines from cuttings 15 Guinea - how to tell cock 196
Geese - and cheat 41 - vines uprooting 16 Gypsum
- colors of Toulouse 199 - for spring forage 44 Grass - as absorbent 81
- fall hatched 198 - harrowing young 38 - Bermuda 53 - in gardening 78
- feathers, selling 198 - shocking 39 - for coast uplands 50
- feeding 198 Grapes - for mountain pasture 50
- to tell gander 199 - bees and 16 - "million-dollar" 50
H
Hare (see rabbit). Hens - wry-tail 195 Hogs - protruding rectum 173 Horse - distemper 146
Hay, danger in bad 124 - worms in pullets 202 - purchased feed for 123 - eye trouble 146
Heifer twins all right 91 Herpes in cattle 172 - rheumatism 177 - farcy 144
Hellebore for insects 223 Hogs - scabby hide 174, 176 - founder 147
Hens - barley for pigs 115 - scouring 178 - grapes for 133
- blindness 206 - breeding crate 100 - scrubs or pure breds 101, 118 - hock-joint cut 151
- canker in mouth 207 - cactus for 122 - shorts for pigs 115 - inflammation of joint 147
- catarrh 206 - charcoal for 173 - skin disease 176 - leg swelling 152
- chicken pox 207 - coal screenings for 173 - sows not breeding 176 - loading on cars 87
- comb crusts 190 - cocoanut meal for 120 - sows paralyzed 179 - lockjaw 144
- comb white 209 - colds 173 - stale food 176 - mange 150
- coughing 209 - cottonseed meal for 113 - sugar beets for 114 - milo maize for 126
- crop catarrh 207 - cow peas for 130 - sweet clovers for 123 - moon blindness 147
- egg-bound 193 - emmer for 121 - throat swelling 181 - neck scab 144
- egg-eating 194 - erysipelas 180 - "thumps" 174 - roaring 146
- eggs, bad flavor 194 - fall or spring pigs 101 - tomatoes for 121 - salivary fistula 148
- eggs, mottled shells 195 - farrowiug pen 101 - tonic for 176 - scours 149
- eggs watery 195 - fattening 118, 119 - tumor 180 - skin trouble 150
- feathering scant 204 - feeding equally 115 - types of 98 - sore navel 148
- feeding 190 - feeding little pigs 116, 117 - ulcers in vagina 179 - sore throat 145
- going light 208 - feeding scrubs 118 - vaccinated, edible 177 - strangles 146
- green feed 193 - feeding sows 117 - water-puffs on 177 - stray law on 105
- houses 189 - foot cracks 180 - weak legs 180 - sweeney 148
- lice cause fits 204 - fistula 178 - whey for 114 - teeth trouble 148
- lice, moth balls for 203 - foxtail in eye 175 - worms in 176 - tendon cut 148
- ointment for 203 - fruit for 122 - wound on leg 179 - tonic for 143
- limber-neck 208 - gain at ages 119 Holsteins and color 91 - urination 145
- marking 186 - gestation period 102 Horn fly 170 - warts 144, 150
- milk for 192 - infection 174 Horse - wire cut, old 152
- molting 191, 192 - immune 99 - acne 150 - worms 149
- perches 189 - intestinal catarrh 173 - ankle swelled 151 - wound not healing 151
- poisoning nightshade 205 - kidney inflammation 174 - bad hay dangerous 124 Horse chestnuts - feed value 140
- rolled barley 190 - lame feet 175 - bony growth on lip 144 Horsepower
- roup 207 - lice 179 - canker of feet 150 - what is 68
- sitting, quitters 196 - lung plague 178 - catarrbal enteritis 145 - for pasteurizing 96
- sunflowers for 192 - mange 175 - controlling sex 85 Humus, dry vegetation for 84
- swell-head not roup 206 - molasses for pigs 116 - cough 145 Hydrocyanic gas for insects 226
- ticks 204, 205 - on twenty acres 88 - cracks in frog 143
- trap nests 188 - pneumonia 178 - cracks on feet 151
I
Inbreeding inadvisable 87 Irrigation - cost and work of well 68 Irrigation - lining for ditches 65 Irrigation - reservoir bottom 67
Inoculation of clovers 53 - ditches and pipes 66 - lining for reservoir 67 - when needed 62
Insecticides and fungicides 239 - hose, oiling 66 - or fertilization 72 - winter rights 72
Irrigation 59 - how much 66 - pipe rights of way 67
J
Japan clover 58 Jerseys, registering 87

K
Kaffir corn 55 Kale, pests of 236 Kerosene emulsion 219 Kidney inflammation 174
L
Lawn, chicken manure for 61 Lice Lime - for daffodils 77 Live Stock and Dairy 85
Lead arsenate 215 - on calf 157 - for sour land 78 - dehorning 89
Leaf mold and fungus 81 - on hog 179 - in gardening 78 - weighing condition 89
Leghorns, weights of 187 - on hens 204 - litmus test 77 Lockjaw in horse 144
Legume as cover crop 84 - moth balls for 203 - orchard use 78 Loganberry, pests of 233
Lemon - ointment for 203 - sulphur sprays 217 Lupins and bacteria 82
- picking 19 Lima bean straw 131 - self-boiled 228
- with apricots 14 Lime - carbide, as fertilizer 77 - when to apply 78
M
Mammitis 160, 161 Medicinal plants, growing 58 Milk - holding up 162 Molasses
Manure Melilotus 52? - pasteurizing 94, 96 - and sorghum fodder 128
- chicken 62 Melons, pests of 237 - room, oil stove in 95 - for pigs 116
- cow 78, 79 Middlings, value of 129 - testing, acid and best 95, 97 Moonshine and planting 28
- horse 78, 79 Millet - yield, increasing 90 Mottle leaf and ashes 77
- in planting 7 - German 39 Milking Mule
- with fertilizers 79 - "hog" 41 - change to winter 90 - lame 153
- too much for seeds 62 Milk - cure for hard 162 - rheumatism 153
Maple from cuttings and seed 27 - causes of bloody 160 Milo maize for cows 126 - ruptured 153
Mares - cooler 95 Mite - in crushed barley 132 - tonic for 153
- breeding young 85 - falling off 108 - look for in morning 201 - tumor on rectum 153
- season for foaling 86 - foul kills hogs 176 - moth balls for 203 Murrain is anthrax 168
N
Nectarine, pests of 231 Nettles as cover crop 82 Nitrate spraying 75
O
Oats 39, 41 Olive - planting 18 Orange Orange - picking 19
- for silo 135 Onions - causes of coarse 18 - soil for 20
Oil injures tree bark 12 - and weeds 29 - for blossoms 19 Orchard, alfalfa strip in 83
Oleander poisoning 172 - from seed 31 - grafting on lemon 19 Overflow reclamation 73
Olive - growing 32 - growing seedlings 20
- cover crop in 17 - pests of 235 - in tubs 19
- pests of 231 - transplanted 31 - pests of 230
P
Paris green 215 Peas - pests of 235 Polo ponies 87 Potatoes - feeding sweet 113
Parsnips, pests of 238 Pecans, polishing 26 Poplar for high windbreak 63 - going to tops 35
Pasturing or rack-feeding 108 Pepper growing 33, 34 Pork, vaccinated, edible 177 - growing seed 35
Peanut growing 33 Persimmons, seedling 20 Prune - pests of 236
Peach Pests and Diseases of Plants 214 - die back 13 - scabby and hollow 36
- pests of 231 Phylloxera, resistance of Tokay 17 - for cows 133 - sweet 36
- planting 6 Pica, depraved appetite 157 - grafting 22 - vines as fertilizers 76
- pruning and thinning 9 Pie Melons as fertilizer 76 - irrigation for 62 - worms 36
- replanting orchard 20 Pigs - See Hogs. - pests of 232 Poultry
- sour sap 5 Planting Pruning - feeding 190
- summer pruning 21 - cutting back after 10 - fall 10 - keeping 186
- too much alkali 61 - square or hexagonal 8 - peach in summer 21 - manure, price of 76
- transplanting 21 Plum - skipping a year 11 - shelters 188
Pear - budding and grafting 23 - to thin fruit 9 Pumping plant, cost and work 68
- dwarf 22 - pests of 232 Potatoes Pumpkins
- on quince 22 Poison baits 215 - aerial 34 - feeding 111
- pests of 229 Poland China - after corn 35 - pests of 237
- winter 20 - types 98 - and gophers 36
Peas - growing field 33 - registering 99 - blackening 35
Q
Quince - growing 22 - pear on 22 - pests of 229
R
Rabbits Rabbits - liver spotted 210 Raspberry, pests of 233 Ringworm 172
- alfalfa for 212 - lump on shoulder 184 Rats, remedies for 241 Riparian rights 72
- Belgian 184, 212 - neglect young 211 Reclaiming overflow land 73 Rolled barley, storing 132
- bucks for does 212 - slobbers incurable 211 Rectum protruding 173 Roots after transplanting 6
- coccidiosis 185 - sore from wound 184 Registering Jerseys 87 Roots for stock 124
- does refusing buck 184 - sores on feet 185 Repellents for insects 224 Rosin wash 221
- ear-scabs 184 - weaning 210 Reservoir Rotation of crops 38
- eyes inflamed 185 - wet feed bad 210 - bottom 67 Russian thistle and alfalfa 46
- feeding 210, 211 Rabies in dog 183 - oil-lining for 67 Rye 41
- fleas 185 Radish, pests of 236 Ringbone, treatment 143 - as cover crop 84
S
Saltpetre as fertilizer 75 Silo - pit seldom desirable 140 Sorghum - feed for cows 126 Squirrels, killing 243
Scabby hide in pigs 174 Soap - feed for horses 126 Stakes for vineyard 16
Scouring 149 - powders 222 - harvesting 42 Stallion license fees 86
Seeds, danger in fertilizer 62 - sprays and washes 221 - in coast valleys 42 Sterility in cows, causes 158, 159
Self-sucking, preventing 89 Soda, Nitrate - irrigation for 63 Stover sorghum 128
Sex controlling 85 - of 75, 79 - mixing 43 "Strangles," treatment for 146
Sheep - for citrus trees 80 - or barley 128 Strawberry
- alfalfa for 102 - for flowers 79 - pasturing 126 - bed, amateur's 23, 24
- bean straw for 131 - spraying 75 - pests of 238 - pests of 233
- catarrh, nasal 181 Soils 59 - soiling 127 Sugar beets for hogs 114
- for range 102 - California 59 - stover 128 Sulphur
- gestation period 102 - crust dries out 60 - summer forage 55 - flowers of 222, 228
- lameness 181 - for fruits 13 - to reduce soil moisture 43 - lime, dust 224
- "soft chess" for 57 - lime for heavy 78 - varieties 42 - lime sprays 217, 228
- sweet clovers for 123 - sandy, cultivation of 60 Sour sap in root 5 - milled 223
- worms in 181 - water in tight 74 Sow (see hog). Summer fallow, plowing for 38
Silo - wrong treatment of 61 Sows Sweeney, treatment for 148
- alfalfa for 134, 138 Sorghum - breeding 99 Sweet clover 52
- capacity of 135 - and alfalfa 126 - breeding young 91 - for hogs 123
- cost of silage 138 - and alkali 41 Squashes - for sheep 123
- feeding from 136 - and corn 42 - feeding 111 Sweet pea straw, fertilizer 82
- frosted corn for 140 - as cover crop 43 - pests of 237 Swellings 142, 151, 152
- grain for 136 - feeding fodder 108 Squeezer for branding 88
T
Tanglefoot for insects 224 Ticks - in poultry houses 204 Trees Turkey - exposure 199
Tankage, what is 132 - trapping 205 - fertilizers for 78 - feeding young 201
Tape worm in fowls 203 Timothy grass 54 Trees - fertilizing young 76 - liver trouble 208
Teats Tobacco - not growing up 5 - maturity 199
- cracked 163 - fumes 226 - planting with manure 7 - mites 201
- leaking 162, 163 - pests of 236 Trap nests, uses of 188 - pendulous crop 202
- warts on 163 - sprays 222 Tuberculosis, signs of 169 - sour food bad 200
Teeth too long 148 Tomatoes Turkey - tom to hens 199
Tenants, terms with 93 - dropping blossoms 37 - bulky food bad 201 - yellow droppings 201
Thumps in pigs 174 - pests of 236 - cholera 200 Twin heifers will breed 91
Ticks - cattle 171 Tongue, "wooden" 169 - diseases 200
U
Udder - injuries and diseases 160, 161, 162 - treatment of 160, 161, 163
V
Vegetables, fall and winter 28 Vetch Vetch - and wheat 58 Vetch - when to plow in 81
Vegetable growing 28 - and oats 54 - for cover crop 57 Vines, pruning 16
- plant when moon is right 28 - and rye 57 - pests of 235
W
Walnut Watermelons for cows 126 Well - pumping from connected 64 Whitewash - for trees 224
- bleaching 25 Water - tunneling 64 - or stain 189
- for San Joaquin 24 - standing kill trees 6 - yield of two-inch 68 Willow posts, growing 26
- grafting 24, 25 - supply, domestic 73 Wheat Windbreak for ditch 63
- pests of 233 - table, depth of 74 - and middlings 129 Worms
- protecting pith 25 - underground 71 - in San Joaquin 40 - in fowls 203
Warbles 171 - waste, controlling 74 Whey for hogs 114 - in horses 149
Warts on teats 163 Well Whitewash Wound not healing 151
Watercress in California 37 - blasting bottom of 64 - durable 224

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