INDEX 



267 



Magnesium carbonate, 69 



carbonate in superphosphate 

 manufacture, 147 



carbonate, use of, 156 



chloride, 166, 170 



limestones, 43, 63, 69 



nitrate, 26 



phosphate, 147 



salts, 40, 162, 166, 171 



sulphate, 42, 164, 170 



sulphate, use of, 214, 231 

 Magnetic flame arc furnace, 97 

 Maize, manures for, 213 

 Makatea phosphates, 1 82 

 Malachite in sprays, 242 

 Malayan phosphates, 36 

 Manganates, 160, 245, 248 

 Manganese catalyst, 90 



use of, 248 

 Mangels, acreage of, 130 



phosphates for, 130 

 Mangold, 170, 184, 200, 218 



manures, 218 

 Mangolds, acreage of, 130 



magnesia and, 8 



phosphates for, 130 



water in, 3 

 Mannitol, use of, 79 



bags, 180 



bills, 202 



heaps, 21, 179, 196 



sheds, 197 

 Manures suited for special crops, 



215 



Manuring for meat, 235 

 Markets for crops, 215 

 Mat of roots produced by fertilizers, 



177 



Maximum yields of crops, 1 

 Maxted, 82, 103 

 McConnell, 257 



Meadow hay, manures for, 223 

 Meat, manures for, 235 



meal, 115 



Mechanical condition of super- 

 phosphate, 143 



dens, 152, 229 



Medick and sulphuric acid, 135 

 Mercuric chloride, 239 

 Mercury insecticides and sprays, 



248, 251 



Metal by-products, 61 

 Meta-phosphoric acid, 118 

 Methyl alcohol, use of, 249 

 Meusel, 31 



Mexican phosphates, 34 

 Meyerhoffer, 172 

 Middlcton, 134, 223, 235, 238 

 Migama, 76 



Mildew, washes for, 248 

 Milk of lime, use of, 84, 167 

 Millipedes, 219 



Mills for grinding, 116, 136, 174 

 Mineral deposits, 22 



manures, effects of, 199 

 Mixed forms of nitrogen, value of , 1 9 5 



manures, 176 



Mixers for superphosphate, 138 

 Mixing compound manures, 179 



manures, cost of, 195 

 Moist fertilizers, 150, 180, 181 

 Mond, 248 

 Mond gas, 53 

 Mono-calcium phosphate, 119, 142, 



149, 153, 175 

 Mount, 47 



Mountain limestone, 45 

 Miihlhausen potash, 40 

 Mukerji, 117, 258 

 Murdock, 48 



Muriate of potash, 165, 203 

 Murray, 189, 198 

 Mushroom fumigants, 250 

 Mustard, sprays for wild, 241 

 Mutton, production of, 17, 202, 235 



NAPHTHALENE, 249, 252, 253, 255 



use of, 141 

 Napier, 228 



Nesting grounds of sea birds, 27 

 New nitrogen fertilizers, 224 

 New Zealand phosphates, 14, 28 

 Newfoundland fish meal, 113 

 Newsham, 255, 257 

 Nicotine, 253 

 Niederstedt, 33 

 Nile, 156 



phosphates, 29, 38 

 Nishimura, 46 

 Nitrate of ammonia.lOl, 191, 216,224 



of lime, 100, 216 



of soda, 22, 94, 185, 191, 198 



of soda, composition of, 95 



of soda on light soils, 209 



of soda, use of, 10, 216, 218 

 Nitrates for leaden chambers, 129 

 Nitre cake, use of, 134 



earths, 24 



pots in sulphuric acid plant, 129 

 Nitric acid, 97, 102, 225 



acid towers, 100 



oxide in sulphuric acid, 129 



oxide, synthetic, 99 

 Nitrification, 9, 23, 208, 209 



in hot climates, 213 



on chalk soils, 212 

 Nitrified vitriol, 132 

 Nitrifying organism poison, 106 



