=Virgin soil=: a soil which has never been cultivated. =Vitality= (of seed): vitality is the ability to grow. Seed are of good vitality if a large per cent of them will sprout. =Weathering=: the action of moisture, air, frost, etc. upon rocks. =Weed=: a plant out of place. A wheat plant in a rose bed or a rose in the wheat field would be regarded as a weed, as would any plant growing in a place in which it is not wanted. =Wilt= (of cotton): a disease of cotton in which the whole plant droops or wilts. =Withers=: the ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. =Yeast=: a preparation containing the yeast plant used to make bread rise, etc. INDEX Acid phosphate, 23, 214, 225 Alfalfa, 28, 179, 187, 242, 244, 245, 246-248 Alfalfa root, 28 Animals, domestic, 261-292 why we feed, 290 Annual, 69, 112, 118, 260 Ant, 144, 150 Anther, 43 Apple, 42, 59, 76, 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