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INDEX. 



Animal matter, use of . 



" " all aflFords geine, ammonia and salts, 



" source of alkali for peat. 



** products may be divided into two classes, 



" *' first class of, 



" '• second " 



Animalized coal, .... 

 Anthracite coal, ashes of, 

 Apocrenates formed by nitric and humic acid, 

 Ashes, action on soil, 



" value of, . . . . 



" constituents of, . 



" divisible in two parts, 



" of hard wood, analysis of, 



" ** soluble part of, 



« " insoluble " 



" pine, analysis of, . 



" of several American trees, analysis of, 



** wheat straw, .... 



" anthracite coal, . 



" leached, value of, . 



" " contents of cord of, 



*' " salts in, 



" of manure, value of, . 



" " " table of, . 



" " vine, analysis of, 

 Atomic weight, .... 



" " theory of, 



Atoms, combinations of, • 

 Author, not a practical farmer, . 



B. 



Barley, limits of, . 

 " " cause of, 



** temperature necessary to growth, . 

 " " of germination, 



Bases, alkaline, .... 



" " properties of, . , 



•• " equivalents of, 



BECTIOy. 



194 

 216 

 277 

 . 220 

 221 

 221 

 210 

 163 

 126 

 135 

 163 

 163 

 163 

 163 

 163 

 163 

 163 

 163 

 163 

 163 

 163 

 164 

 164 



154) 

 154) 



21 

 55 

 55' 

 55 

 271 



26,28 



26 

 41 

 62 

 62 



