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INDEX 



Experimenls, with fertilisers, 359 ; 

 pot, 375 



FAECES, nature of, 179, 243 



Farmyard manure, changes during 

 making, 189 ; composition of, 202, 

 205 ; cost of mailing, 224 ; defini- 

 tion, 178 ; fire-fanged, 191 ; last- 

 ing action of, 212; loss of nitrogen 

 in making, 192 ; management of, 

 207; physical effects of, 216; 

 slow availability of, 215 ; utilisa- 

 tion of, 222, 315, 318, 321 ; value 

 of, 209, 216 



Feathers, 11, 71 



Felspar, 163 



Fermentation, of cellulose, 187 ; of 

 urea, 184 



Fertilisers, compensation for residues 

 of, 354 ; experiments with, 359 ; 

 machines for sowing, 372 ; mixed, 

 352 ; required in ordinary farm- 

 ing, , 305 ; sampling of, 350 ; 

 significance of term, 2, 23 ; valua- 

 tion of, 340 



Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 



235> 349 

 Fertility, of soil, 305 ; unexhausted, 



354 



Finger-and-toe, 151, 216, 259, 315 



Fire-fanged manure, 191 



Fish guano, 236, 248, 345 



Fish waste, 12, 75, 236 



Five fingers, 75 



Fixation of nitrogen, by bacteria, 

 32 ; by calcium carbide, 38 ; by 

 electricity, 42 . 



Flocculation of soils by lime, 255 



Flock dust, 71 



Florida phosphates, 1 16 



Folding of sheep, 274 



Foods, fate of nitrogen in, 180; 

 manure value of, 225, 356 



Foxglove, 254 



Frank and Caro, cyanamide, 38 



Franklin, Benjamin, 267 



Fray Bentos guano, 238 



Fruit, manures for, 334 



Function of, iron salts, 270 ; nitro- 

 genous manures, 77 ; phosj^hatic 

 manures, 136; potassic manures, 

 165 ; silica in plant nutrition, 271 



Fungi in dung, 191 



Fungoid diseases, and lime, 259 ; 

 and nitrogenous manures, 86 ; 

 and potash manures, 174; carried 

 by farmyard manure, 216 



Garden manures, 338 



Gases contained in dunghill, 187 



Gas lime, 254, 262, 265 



(Gilbert, Rothamsted experiments, 9 



Grasses, appearance of potash - 



starved, 173 ; developed by nitro- 

 genous manures, 65 

 Grass land, effect of lime on, 259 ; 



effect of potash on, 173 ; manures 



for, 326 ; value of dung on, 221 

 Greaves, 74, 239, 248 

 Green manuring, 272 

 Grinding of bones, 107; of fertilisers, 



value of fine, 150, 154 

 Ground lime, 253 

 Guano, 12, 145, 346 ; bat, 236 ; 



Damaraland, 235 ; fish, 236 ; 



Ichaboe, 235 ; meat, 236, 238 ; 



native, 246; phosphatic, 115, 



145, 152, 229 

 Gunpowder salt, 269 

 Gypsum, 106, 113, 124, 160, 262, 



266 ; as an ammonia fixer, 201 ; 



phosphatic, 134 



Hair, ii, 71 



Hay, manures for, 329 



Hellriegel, experiments upon barley, 



166 ; growth and nitrogen supply, 



28; nitrogen-fixing bacteria, 11 

 Henslow, discovery of coprolites, 13, 



121 

 High farming, 301 

 Highland and Agricultural Society's 



experiments, 153, 313 

 History of manuring, 2, 11, 103, 158, 



249 

 Holdings Act, Agricultural, 354 

 Hoofs, II, 71 



Hop bine, composition of, 181 

 Hops, manures for, 333 ; spent, 74 

 Horn, II 



Horse, composition of excreta of, 181 

 Hughes, F., analysis of Egyptian 



nitrate of soda, 47 

 Hughes, J., basic superphosphate, 



133 

 Humboldt, A. von, 231 



