A MANUAL OF 



Agricultural Chemistry 



By HERBERT INQLE, 



B.Sc. (Leeds), F.I.C., F.C.S., 



Chief Chemist to the Transvaal Department of Agriculture, Pretoria ; Late 

 Lecturer on Agricultural Chemistry at the Leeds University. 



SECOND REVISED EDITION, with additional matter 

 relating to Tropical Agriculture, etc. 



DEMY 8vo. 



11 ILLUSTRATIONS. 



450 pp. 



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ABRIDGED CONTENTS. 



Properties and Characteristics of the 

 Elements. 



The Atmosphere. 



The Soil. 



Formation of Soils. 



Reactions in Soils. 



Analysis of Soils. 



Natural Manures. 



Other Organic Manures. 



Nitrogenous Manures. 



Phosphatic Manures. 



Potash Manures. 



Various Manures. 



Analysis of Manures. 



Constituents of Plants. 



hssential Oils and Resins. 



Nitrogenous Substances. 



The Plant. 



Crops. 



The Animal. Blood Bones Fatty Tissue 

 Muscle Digestion Bile Urine. 



Foods and Feeding. Composition of Oil- 

 cake Bye-Products as Foods Digestibility of 

 Foods Calorific Value of Foods Feeding 

 Standards Manurial Value of Foods. 



Milk and Milk Products. Fat Albu- 



minoids Milk Sugar Chemical Composition 

 of Cow's Milk Influence of Food, Season, 

 and Milking Time Milk Products Cream 

 Skimmed Milk Butter Butter-milk Cheese 

 Condensed Milk Koumiss Milk Preserva- 

 tion. 



Analysis of Milk and Milk Products. 

 Milk Amount of Fat Determination of Total 

 Solids, Specific Gravity, Proteids, Milk Sugar 

 Adulteration of Milk Detection of Preser- 

 vativesButterButter Colouring Cheese- 

 Milk Standards. 



Various Products used in Agriculture. 



Appendix. 



Tropical Agriculture, etc. Composition 

 of Rain Water Irrigation Water Earth 

 Worms Motion of Water in Soil Analysis 

 of Soils Green Manuring Kraal Manure 

 Bats' Guano Artificial Manures The Plant 

 Rice Maize Millet Cotton Flax Castor 

 Seeds Sunflower Composition of Various 

 South African Grown Crops Ash Constituents 

 of Foods Variations in the Composition of 

 Milk Butter Fat Bordeaux Mixture In- 

 secticides. 



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