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INDEX 



Rothamsted, 1, 7, 8, 11, 20, 69, 70, 

 81, 106, 127, 170, 199, 206, 

 210, 213, 214, 217, 221, 223 

 barley, 18 



Rotond, 31 



Royal Agricultural Society, 8, 117, 

 208, 257 



Runch spray, 241 



Russell, 1, 21, 76, 104, 171, 198, 214, 

 223, 232, 238, 258 



Russian phosphates, 32 



Rust preventive, 241 



Ruston, 60 



Rye grass, 201, 203 



SAFAGA phdsphate, 29, 38 



Sainfoin, 221 



Saldanha Bay phosphate, 29, 38 



Salmang, 60, 103 



Salmon, 248, 255 



Salt, 66, 161, 170, 206, 218 



cake, 66, 171 



cake furnace, 66, 231 



lagoons, 42 



mines, 40 



use of, in blast furnaces, 62 

 Saltpetre, 22, 24, 46 

 Sandy soil, 206, 207 

 Sap in plants, 5 



Saturator for ammonium sulphate, 

 85 



on colour of sulphate of ammonia, 

 effect of, construction of, 87 

 Saunders, 172 

 Sawdust potash, 76 

 Scandinavian phosphate, 30 

 Scheibler, 31, 47, 70 

 Schlimper, 33 

 Schoenite, 168, 169 

 Schoenherr, 97 

 Schorlemmer, 60, 70, 258 

 Schucht, 35 

 Schulte, 31 

 Schwackhofer, 33 

 Scott, 98, 103, 228 



Pauling furnace, 98 

 Scutch, 117 



Screens, 136, 138, 179, 183, 197 

 Sea birds' dung, 27, 71 



spray, 7, 170 



salt, 42 



salt, use of, 7 



water, 42 



water potash, 42 



weed, 76 



Season and unit price, 189 

 Sebaia phosphate, 29, 38 

 Seeds, water in, 3 



Serpek process, 226, 228 



Setting in fertilizers, 180, 185 



Sfax phosphates, 38 



Shale by-products, 48, 83, 160 



Shaw, 255 



Shell lime, 44 



Sheep, 204 ' 



dips, 252 

 Shoddy, 75 

 Short, 59 



Sicilian potash, 42 

 Side salts, 167 

 Siemens open hearth,* 63 

 Sieves, 136, 138, 179, 183, 197 



for basic slag, 121 



for mills, 137 



Silage, fertilizers for, 217, 223 

 Silicate cements, 139 



in superphosphate, 148 

 Silicon tetra-nuoride, 147, 148 

 Silk waste, 75 



Simplification of price curves, 192 

 Singer, 254 

 Situation of superphosphate works, 



133 



Slag, 63, 120, 219, 220, 221 

 Smetham, 18, 21, 46, 189, 192, 198, 



238 



Smother crops, 202, 204 

 Snyder, 258 

 Soap and copper sprays, 242 



sprays, 246, 251 



use of dry, 243, 247 



washes, 247, 255 

 Soda, 66, 169 



action on soil of, 209 



lime and carbon monoxide, 90 



sprays, 246, 251 



washes, 247, 252 

 Soderbaum, 46 

 Sodium bicarbonate in dairy use, 245 



carbonate, 66, 171 



carbonate, use of, 156, 241, 243 



chloride, 3, 66, 165, 170, 206 



cyanide, 250 



nitrate, 22, 83, 94, 166 



nitrate, composition of, 95 



nitrate reduced by bacteria, 80 



nitrate, use of, 245 



nitrite, 100 



perthio-carbonate, 249 



salt, cure for injury to soil by, 46 



silicate, 246 



silicate, brick protector, 139 



silicate cements, 139 



silicate, wood preservative, 141 



sulphate, 66, 163 



sulphate, use of, 213, 231 



sulphide, 67, 249 



