INDEX 



PAGE 



Absorption dynamometers 18 



Action of valves ; 430 



Adjusting the walking plow 75 



sulky plow 75 



Advantage, giving one horse the. 14 

 of the gasoline engine as a 



farm motor 432 



Agricultural engineering defini- 

 tion 9 



Air cooled, the 420 



Air for combustion 347 



Alcohol 434-435 



Alfalfa harrow 85 



Alfalfa mills 237 



Alternator, magneto 478 



multipolar 478 



Ammeter 465 



Amperes 27 



Anchor posts 313 



Angle of advance 372 



Angularity of connecting rod 381 



Animal as a motor, the 281 



Animals other than horse or mule 



used for power 286 



Anthracite coal 347 



Arc, electric 490 



Armature 476-483 



insulation of 483 



Arrester, spark 339 



Artificial magnets 460 



Attaching indicator to engines. . 383 

 Attachments, threshing machine. . 214 



self feed and band cutter 214 



stackers 215 



weighers 216 



wind stackers or blowers 215 



Attraction and repulsion, laws of 



electrical 462 



Automatic cut-off governor 389 



Bag in a boiler 360 



Balanced valve 373 



Baling presses 187 



i box presses 1 88 



development 187 



horse power presses 188 



power presses 189 



Banking the fire. 355 



Bar share . 56 



Barn tools 1 8 1 



Base 407 



Batteries 419 



connection 419 



Battle-ax mills 299 



Bean and pea threshers 218 



Bearings . .40, 398 



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Bearing surface at wing of share. 70 



Bell, electric 473 



Belting 2 8 



canvas 30 



care of leather 29 



dressing 29 



lacing of 30 



leather 29 



link 31 



Best conditions for work 293 



Bevel gears 37 



Binders 143 



draft of 153 



Bituminous or soft coals 348 



Blister 360 



Blow-off pipe 338 



Blower and exhaust nozzle 328 



Blue heat 342 



Boilers, bag in 360 



capacity 339 



classification 318 



cleaning 358 



compounds 359 



direct flue 329 



externally fired 319 



horse power 340 



internally fired 320 



laying up 360 



locomotive type 321 



open bottom type 324 



principle 317 



return flue 324 



round bottom type 324 



steam 317 



strength of 342 



vertical 318 



Boiler shell, strength of 344 



Boiling point 365 



Bolts, stay 343 



Bottom, plow 59 



types of 63 



Boxes, heating of 41 



enclosed wheel 65 



Bridges 455 



British thermal unit 26 



Brushes 477 



Buggies and carriages 252 



selection 252 



Burners, wood and cob 326 



straw 3*8 



Burr 46 



Cable transmission 34 



Calculations for incandescent wir- 

 ing 494 



Canvas belting 30 



