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Baum6 hydrometer, 235 

 Beans, 130 



field, 130 



haricot, 131 



soy, 131 



velvet, 131 

 Beck's hydrometer, 236 

 Beestings, 187 

 Beets, 143 

 Bile, 160 

 Bilirubin, 160 

 Biliverdin, 161 

 Bleaching powder, 213 

 Blood, 155 



dried, as manure, 102 

 Blue vitriol, 216 

 Boer manna, 102 

 Boiler crusts, 64 

 Bone ash, 157 

 Bones, 157 



as manure, 105 

 Boracic acid, 215 

 Borax, 216 



Bordeaux mixture, 217 

 Boric acid, 215 

 Boyle's law, 26 

 Brak soils, 57, 69 

 Brewing, 121 

 Brix hydrometer, 236 

 Broom corn, 129 

 Buckwheat, 132 

 Burnett's fluid, 215 

 Butter, 203 

 Butterine, 205 

 Butter-milk, 206 



Cabbages, 150 



Calcium, functions of, in plants, 

 occurrence of, 19 

 carbonate, forms of, 35 



in soils, 44 

 cyanamide, 109 

 nitrate, 108 



Caliche, 107 

 Calorific power, 13 



power of foods, 173 

 Capillarity, 51 

 Carbohydrates, in food, 165 



in plants, 84 

 Carbolic acid, 214, 226, 234 

 Carbon, occurrence of, 15 

 dioxide, in air, 28 



assimilation of, 80 

 in decay, 100 

 respiratory, 156 

 in soil gases, 56 

 asasolvent,39, 41,63, 79 

 Carbon disulphide, 214, 230 

 Carnine, 158 

 Carrots, 146 



Cartier's hydrometer, 236 

 Cartilage, 158 

 Casein, 184 

 Castor oil seeds, 135 

 Celery, 146 

 Cellulose, 85 

 Cereals, 120 

 Cheese, 207 



Chemical changes in soil, 46 

 Chemical manures, 106 

 Chili saltpetre, 107 

 Chlorine, bleaching action of, 

 22 

 as a disinfectant, 213 

 functions of, in plants, 92 

 occurrence of, 22 

 Chlorophyll, 95 

 Churning, 204 

 Citrus fruits, 140 



Clay, occurrence and composition 

 of, 35 

 physical and chemical pro- 

 perties of, 42 

 Clovers,* 149 

 Cole, 135 

 Collagen, 158 



