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INDEX 



Bacteria in milk, 246 

 in soils, 141 

 number of, 145 

 Balsams, definition of, 88 

 Barley seed, discussion of compo- 

 sition of, 116 

 Basalts, 185 

 Base goods, 219 

 Basic -calcium nitrate, 210 



copper acetate, use of, in making 

 Paris green, 285 

 carbonate, use of, in making 

 fungicides, 291 

 slag, 227 



availability of, 229 

 composition of, 227 

 effect of, on fertilizer mixtures, 

 202 

 on soil, 229 

 Baume scale, 301 (footnote) 

 Bauxite, 172 

 Beeswax, 321 

 Benzaldehyde in oil of bitter 



almonds, 82 

 Benzoin, 90 

 Biennials, 38 

 Bile, 331 

 Biotite, 171 

 Black alkali, 192 

 Blood, 312 



exchange of gases in, 316 

 clotting of, 315 

 Bone phosphate of lime, 278 



tankage, 218 

 Bone-black, 222 

 dissolved, 223 

 Bone-meal, 222 

 Bones, 309 



raw, as a fertilizer, 221 

 Bordeaux mixture, 292 



use of, with Paris green, 285 

 Brewer's grains, 116 

 Brewing, use of barley in, 116 

 Brie cheese, 349 

 British gum, 67 

 Brown sugar, 60 

 Buhach, 290 

 Bulbs, purpose of, 38 

 Burnt lime as fertilizer, 248 

 Butter, 347 

 Buttermilk, 347 

 Button lac, 89 

 By-product coke ovens, 211 



Caffeine, 97 

 Calcite, 169 



Calcium carbonate as fertilizer, 

 247 

 solution in soil moisture, 170 

 compounds in the animal, 322 

 cyanamide, 214 

 fertilizers as plant food, 240 

 function of, in plant, 45 

 hydroxide as fertilizer, 249 

 minerals in soil, 169 

 nitrate, availability of, 210 

 effect of, on soil, 210 

 as a fertilizer, 208 

 in the soil, 152 

 oxide. See Lime. 



amount of, in burnt lime, 251 

 in calcium carbonate, 248, 



251 

 in slaked lime, 251 

 as a fertilizer, 248 

 saccharates, 60 

 sulphate as a fertilizer, 255 

 Caliche, 206 

 Calorie, 339 

 Calorimeter, 337 



respiration, 337 

 Camembert cheese, 349 

 Canada balsam, 90 

 Canaigre, 102 



Cane sugar. See also Sucrose, 56 

 Caoutchouc, 91 

 Capillaries, 313 

 Caramel, 58 



Carbohydrate, amount of, synthes- 

 ized by plants, 34 

 function of, in plant, 37 

 in milk, 342 

 Carbohydrates, absorption of, into 

 body, 332 

 amount of, in plants, 50 

 in the animal, 319 

 function of, 334 

 definition of, 50 

 manufacture of, 33 

 transfer of, in plants, 33 

 Carbon dioxide, in air, 134 

 exhaled by man, 135 

 given off by burning coal, 135 

 how it gets out of the blood, 

 316 



