570 



INDEX 



Ascochyta pisi, 275. 



Ash, 26. 



Ashes, analysis, 59 ; weight, 540. 



Asparagus, diseases, 265 ; fertilizer 



for, 65; insects, 310; packages, 170, 



171 ; plumosus, 198 ; under glass, 



190. 

 Aspidiotus aurantii, 323 ; perniciosus, 



304. 

 Ass, gestation, 342, 343; milk of, 



443. 



Aster, insect, 311. 

 Atmosphere, composition, 25. 

 Attar of roses, 551. 

 Auger, soil, 543. 

 Austrian money, 522, 523. 

 Autographa brassicse, 311, 322. 

 Avoirdupois weight, 516. 

 Ayrshire records, 350. 

 Azalea, 198. 

 Azolla, 191. 



Babcock, greenhouse heating, 194. 



Babcock test, 446, 456. 



Bacillus amylovorus, 277 ; campestre, 



266 ; tracheiphilus, 270. 

 Bacon, grades of, 406. 

 Bacon-hog, scoring, 404. 

 Bacterium phaseoli, 265 ; solanacea- 



rum, 282, 283; tumefaciens, 266, 



272, 276, 281. 

 Baedeker, money, 524. 

 Bag-worm, 301. 

 Bait for insects, 293. 

 Balanced rations, 409, 410, 413. 

 Balaninus sp., 313. 

 Ball- weevil, 316. 

 Bandages, waxed, 513. 

 Banding for insects, 286. 

 Barb-wire, 479. 

 Barium, 24. 

 Bark-lice, 301. 

 Barleycorn, 528. 

 Barley, diseases, 261 ; fertilizer for, 



65; grading, 161; weight, 534, 541. 

 Barn figures, 477. 

 Barnyard manure, 88. 

 Barometer indications, 1, 9. 

 Barrels, apple, 165 ; various, 528. 

 Baryta for mice, 235. 

 Basket- worm, 301. 

 Beal, W. J., on seeds, 104. 



Bean, diseases, 265 ; fertilizer for, 



62, 65; insects, 311. 

 Beans, packages, 170, 171 ; to preserve 



for exhibition, 555 ; under glass, 190 ; 



weight, 534,541. 

 Bear, gestation, 342, 343. 

 Beaunis, quoted, 27. 

 Beaver, gestation, 342, 343. 

 Beef-cattle, scoring, 395. 

 Beef, market classes, 404. 

 Bees, in pound, 530. 

 Beeswax, 512. 



Beet, diseases, 266 ; fertilizer for, 62, 66. 

 Beets, packages, 170 ; under glass, 190 ; 



weight, 534, 541. 

 Beggarweed, 139 ; weight, 533. 

 Begonias, 189. 

 Belgium money, 523. 

 Belting, 498. 



Bembecia marginata, 331. 

 Berckmans, on storing sweet-potatoes, 



148. 



Beryllium, 24. 

 Bichloride of mercury for fungicide, 



255 ; for herbarium, 546. 

 Bins, contents of, 530. 

 Birch, insects, 311. 

 Birds, pestiferous, 243. 

 Bismuth, 24. 

 Bisulfid of carbon, 293 ; also 241, 243, 



544, 546. 



Bit or shilling, 523. 

 Bitter milk, 459. 

 Blackberries, weight, 529. 

 Blackberry, diseases, 266 ; fertilizer for, 



66; insects, 311; seed, 533. 

 Black-knot, 279. 

 Black-rot of grape, 272. 

 Blepharida rhois, 334. 

 Blight, pear, 277. 

 Blissus leucopterus, 315. 

 Blister-beetle, 302. 



Blood, analysis, 58 ; quantity in ani- 

 mals, 345. 



Blue-grass seed, weight, 534, 541. 

 Blue-stone for bordeaux, 253. 

 Blue vitriol as fungicide, 258 ; for 



bordeaux, 254 ; for weeds, 223. 

 Board measure, 210. 

 Boars, grades of, 408. 

 Boiled milk, 448. 

 Boiler cements, 507. 



