INDEX 



245 



Colloids, 77 

 Coloslrum, 187 

 Comfrey, prickly, 149 

 Combustion, heat of, 13 



spontaneous, 13 

 Compounds, chemical, 3 

 Concave surfaces of water, 50 

 Condensed milk, 206 

 Condy's fluid, 215 

 Conglomerates, 36 

 Connective tissue, 158 

 Constituents of plants, 84 

 Copper sulphate, 115, 216 

 Cotton, 133 

 Coumarin, 152 

 Cream, 199 

 Creasote, 214 

 Creatine, 157 

 Cresol, 214 



Crops, classification of, 119 

 Crops, rotation of, 153a 

 Crude fibre in plants, 1G5 

 Crystalloids, 77 

 Cubic nitre, 107 



Dairy, the, 182 



Denitrification, 56 



Density, maximum, of water^ 73 



Dent maize, 126 



Dextrin, 77 



Dextrose, 87 



Diastase, 77, 122 



Diffusion of liquids, 77 



in soils, 48 

 Digestibility of foods, 166 

 Digestible constituents of foods, 



169 

 Digestion, 159 

 Dips, arsenical, 221 



lime and sulphur,'227 

 Disinfectants, 211 

 Dissolved bones, 112 

 Distillation, destructive, 8 



Drainage, amount of, 58 



losses by, 58 

 Durra, 129 

 Dyer's method in soil analysis, 



60 



Eau celeste, 219 



Elastin, 158 



Elements, 2 



Emerald green, 224 



Endothermic compounds, 8 



Ensilage, 152 



Enzymes, 76, 121, 159, 197, 208 



Equations, chemical, 6 



Ether extract in foods, 166 



Excreta, animal, 97 



human, 103 

 Exothermic compounds, 8 



Fahrenheit thermometer, 237 

 Farmyard manure, 97 



decomposition of, 100 



preservation of, 99 

 Fat in foods, 166 



in milk, 182 

 Fat globules iu milk, 192 

 Fats, nalure of, 87 

 Fatty acids, saturated, 88 , 



unsaturated, 89 

 Fatty tissue, 158 

 Feeding of animals, 164 

 Felspar, 34 



Ferrous sulphate as manure, 115 

 Fish manure, 102 

 Flax, 133 

 Flint maize, 126 

 Flowers, 82 

 Fodder crops, 147 

 Food of animals, 164 

 Foods, manurial value of, 179 



money value of, 178 



thermal value of, 173 

 Formaldehyde, 80, 198, 215, 219 



