INDEX 



261 



Bottles for poisons, 239 



Bottom salts, 167 



Bouilhac, 82 



Boulton, 255 



Bracken, how to destroy, 135 



Breadlike consistency of super- 

 phosphates, 151, 174 



Brenchley, 135, 159, 248 



Brick, acid resisting, 1 39 

 mixer, 138 



Brick? for constructing dens, 141 



Brickwork of dens, destruction of, 

 147 



British superphosphate trade, 134 



Brittany fish manure, 114 



Bromine, 166 



Brown, 8 



Brown bones, 174 



Bryant, 76 



Bucher, 82 



Burchard, 65 



Burgen, 106 



Burgundy mixture, 241 



Burmese nitrates, 22 



Burnett's fluid, 245 



Bush, 65, 232 



Buttercup killed by sulphuric acid, 

 135 



Butterfield, 60 



Butyric acid in butter, 245 



Buxton lime, 45 



CABBAGE, 201 



acreage of, 130 



phosphates for, 131 

 Cabbages, water in, 3 

 Cake bill, 202 



feeding on grass, 15 

 Caking superphosphates, 179 

 Calcareous soils, 200, 212 

 Calcium needed by plants, 6 



arsenate, 248 



carbide, 79, 105, 225 



carbonate in phosphates, 27, 141 



carbonate in superphosphate 

 manufacture, 146 



carbonate, use of, 156 



chloride and cyanamide, 105 



cyanamide, 79, 83, 105 



cyanamide and sandy soils, 209 



cyanamide as a source of am- 

 monia, 92, 225 



cyanamide, use of, 216 



fluoride, 28, 147, 161 



fluoride and cyanamide, 105 



nitrate, 25, 100 



phosphide, 56 



polysulphide, 247 



Calcium silicide, 56 



sulphate, 46, 182 



sulphate in superphosphate, 143 



sulphide, 247 

 Caliche, 24, 94 

 Calvert, 103 

 Cameron, 257 

 Canadian phosphates, 32 



wheat, 212 



Cane sugar, inversion of, 4 

 Cape Cross phosphates, 29 

 Capital, result of insufficient, 233 

 Carbide, 79, 105 



residues, 56, 60 

 Carbon dioxide in air, 8 



dioxide in superphosphate manu- 

 facture, 146 



dioxide, tension of, 43 



disulphide as a germicide, 249, 

 254 



disulphide in gas, 54 



disulphide, used as a solvent, 108 



tetrachloride as a germicide, 249 

 Carbonates in soil, 6 



in fertilizers, estimation of, 47 

 Carbonic acid and plants, 3, 8 



acid, estimation of, 70 



acid, extract of soil, 7 



acid in air, 3 



acid ions in soil water, 7 



apatite, 173 



Carbonization of coal, 50 

 Cardem process, 75 

 Carnallite, 40, 42, 164, 166, 169 

 Carolina phosphates, 28 

 Carpet waste, 75 

 Carrots, 201 



Cartage of fertilizers, 189 

 Cart shed, 197 

 Case hardening residues, 64 

 Castor cake, 107, 109 



meal, 108 

 Catalysis, 4 

 Catalyst for ammonia, 89 



for ammonium nitrate, 102 

 Catalonian potash, 41 

 Catch crops, 204, 205 

 Caterpillars, protection against, 243 



sprays for, 251 

 Catlett, 65 



Cattle, salt used in foods for, 170 

 Caustic soda, 67 

 Cellulose, 4 

 Cement, acid resisting, 139 



by-products, 160 



potash, 62, 160, 171 

 Centrifugal sulphate of ammonia, 88 

 Cereal fertilizers, 216 



sprays, 241 



