SUBJECT INDEX 



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Water— Continued, 

 underground— 



in Big Smoky Valley, Nevada, (33) 778. 



eastern Kansas, (32) 486. 



Queensland, (27) 686. 



South Australia, (30) 211. 

 locating, (35) 286; (36) 886. 

 locating with divining rods, (33) 882. 

 location, (31) 813. 

 notes, (28) 27. 

 of Iowa, (,28) 316. 



Luna Co., New Mexico, (32) 384. 



Mesilla Valley, New Mexico, (28) 889. 



north-central Texas, (29) 209. 



Oasis of Kharga, (26) 317. 



southeastern Texas coastal plain, (32) 384. 



Valley of Mexico, (26) 418. 

 pollution through rock fissures, (30) 19. 

 utilization in Egypt, (33) 188. 

 use on irrigition projects. (40) 187. 

 use on Yuma project, (40) 484. 

 vapor, analysis, apparatus for, (40) 111. 

 vapor on clear days, notes, (26) 118. 

 vapor, retention by plants, (29) 524. 

 viability of bacteria in, (.38) 488. 

 warm, forcing strawberries with, (31) 238. 

 warm v. cold, for animals, (31) 367. 

 waste, methods of analysis, (31) 502. 

 waste, of mines, piggeries, etc., (33) 684. 

 weed, composition and use, (27) 727. 

 weed, culture for wild ducks, (33) 251. 

 well, analyses, (27) 719. 

 well, of western India, (35) 187. 

 well, relation to public health, (29) 512. 

 wheel for irrigation in Philippines, (36) 185. 

 wheels, testing, (35) 889. 

 witches, notes, (32) 487. 

 zinc pipes for, (33) 188. 

 Watercress — 



culture, (33) 438. 

 culture for wild ducks, (3.3) 251. 

 of polluted streams as a food, (32) 357. 

 polluted, typhoid epidemic from, (30) 64. 

 Waterfowl — 



at Swan Lake, Minnesota, (40) 55. 

 breeding grounds, (39) 460. 

 lead poisoning in, (39) 687. 

 mortality around Great Salt Lake, (33) 251; 

 (39) 460. 

 Watering- 

 devices for livestock, (27) 486; (30) 389. 

 devices for moorland pastures, (33) 188. 

 places for livestock, (31) 366. 

 Watermelon — 



anthracnose, studies, (35) 652; (40) 250. 

 blossom-end blight, notes, (30) 537. 

 diseases and their treatment, (40) 52. 

 diseases, notes, (37) 554. 

 diseases, studies, (38) 645. 

 leaf spot, notes, (35) 749. 

 pink spot, notes, (34) 843. 

 seeds, analyses and use, (36) 611. 

 stem-end rot, investigations, (35) 248. 

 wilt, relation to contaminated seed, (34) 53. 

 Watermelons — 



acidity, (32) 110; (37) 715. 



critical period of growing season, (39) 811. 



culture experiments, (35) 341; (37) 742. 



culture in Indiana, (38) 241. 



fertilizer experiments, (37) 742, 832. 



reducing and nonreducing sugars in, (29) 503. 



sugar content, (27) 765. 



Thielavia basicola on roots of, (33) 852. 



varieties, (34) 232; (37) 143. 



water requirements, (32) 127. 



of Colorado, alkalis in, (39) 323. 

 New Mexico, analyses, (40) 785. 

 Queensland, analyses, (40) 314. 

 Quincy Valley, analyses, (40) 485. 

 South Dakota, analyses, (40) 291. 

 Utah, analyses, (.39) 792. 

 Watersheds, protection in Hawaii, (33) 442. 

 Waterspouts — 



at Tatoosh Island, Washington, (38) 812. 

 notes, (32) 211. 

 ofl Cape San Lucas, (34) 614. 

 Waterway areas, determination, (31) 384. 



Waterways — 



artificial, frictional resistance in, (30) 885. 



papers on, (29) 291. 

 Waterworks — 



construction and management, (40) 715. 



design and construction, (29) 182. 



handbook, (36) 87. 

 Wattle— 



bagworm, notes, (29) 758. 



black, anatomy and distribution of tannin in , 

 (33) 52,3 



disease in fowls, (31) 782. 



diseases, studies, (29) 45. 



insect, investigations, (33) 856. 



tanbark industry in Natal, (37) 748. 

 Wattles of Australia, description, (36) 844. 

 Waw-waw meal, analyses, (40) 173. 

 Wax— 



candelilla, chemistry of, (26) 611. 



carnauba, methods of analysis, (28) 511. 



from sugar cane, (39) 712. 



Grecian, analyses, (30) 258. 



moth, life history, (26) 349. 



moth, life history and remedies, (32) 151. 



moth, notes, (28) 352. 



moth parasite, studies, (40) 359. 



moths, destruction by cold, (40) 760. 



statistics in United States, (28) 390. 



sugar-cane, notes, (26) 213. 



utilization, (35) 470. 



wastes, fertilizing value, (29) 129. 



worm, fumigation, (40) 755. 

 Waxes — 



analyses, (35) 203. 



chemical technology of, (29) 413. 



chemistry of, (31) 201. 



determination of unsaponiflable matter in, (37) 

 805. 



handbook, (40) 804. 



melting point, determination, (36) 15. 



methods of analysis, (27) 205; (31) 806; (35) 205. 



of Dutch East Indies, (30) 697. 



technical handbook, (39) 8. 



technology and analysis, treatise, (34) 507. 



treatise, (30) 310. 

 Weasels, susceptibility to plague, (26) 59. 

 Weather — see also Meteorological observations and 

 Meteorology. 



abnormaUties at Springfield, Missouri, (26) 614. 



and climate, treatise, (28) 211. 

 health, (33) 321. 

 radiotransmission, (31) 615. 

 radium emanation at Manila, (33) 717. 

 sunspots, correlation, (27) 718. 

 wheat yield in the Dakotas, (39) 210. 



as affected by the moon, (29) 314; (33) 320. 



as factor in dissemination of plant diseases, (38) 

 47. 



at Fresno, Calif., (29) 121. 



at Los Angles, Calif., (27) 414. 



at Point Reyes, (29) 812. 



Bureau- 

 agricultural meteorology of, (33) 615. 



and the physician, (34) 609. 



and the war, (38) 210. 



Chinese, (35) 618. 



Division of Agricultural Meteorology, (34) 

 601. 



exhibit at San Francisco, (34) 413. 



history and work of, (33) 717. 



Instructions for cooperative observers, (33) 

 118. 



instructions to observers, (34) 509. 



observers in Utah, (27) 316. 



relation to cranberry industry, (27) 539. 



report of chief, (27) 509; (29) 209; (31) 212; 

 (32) 810; (35) 506; (36) 615; (38) 617. 



service, extension of, (36) 19. 



service in California, (32) 509. 



terms used to designate storms, (34) 118. 



weekly forecasts by, (33) 100. 

 cause of, (32) 25. 



changes as indicated by halos, (34) 207. 

 charts, dailv, of northern and southern hemi- 

 spheres, (31) 213. U 

 continuous pictures of, (31) 615. 

 cycle, notes, (26) 416 . 

 daily, graphical method of showmg, (36) la. 



