INDEX 



385 



" British gum," 189. 



British system of weights and measures, 



379. 



Bromine as disinfectant, 366. 

 Broom corn, 240. 

 Brucine, as nitrate test, 95. 

 Buckwheat, 242. 

 Bunt, 362. 

 Butter, 336. 



analysis of, 355. 



colouring, 357. 



fat, 313. 



milk, 339. 



"pickled," 338. 



"process," 338. 



- rancidity of, 315, 338. 



"renovated," 338. 

 Butyric acid, 196, 313. 

 Bye-products from breweries and dis- 

 tilleries, 284. 



milling of cereals, 284. 



- oil-seeds, 281. 

 starch manufacture, 283. 



sugar manufacture, 283. 



C. 



Cabbages, 289. 

 Cadaverine, 342. 

 Cadinene, 202. 

 Caffeine, 121, 214. 

 Cakes, oil-, v. Oil-cakes. 

 Calamine, 14. 

 Calcite, 36. 

 Calcium, 11. 



carbonate, 36. 



action of, in nitrification, 64. 

 estimation of, in soils, 90. 



- cyanamide, 138, 167. 



fluoride, 13, 145. 



functions of, in plants, 206. 



nitrate, 140, 167. 



oxalates, 199. 



phosphate, action of, in curdling 



milk, 316. 



in blood, 266. 



in milk, 316. 



- sulphate, 11, 38, 158. 

 Caliche, 13, 133. 

 Calorific powers, table of, 4. 

 Calves, standard rations for, 302. 

 Camembert cheese, 340. 

 Camphor, 203. 



Camphors, 202. 

 Canada balsam, 205. 

 Cane-sugar, 187. 

 Capillary tubes in soil, 56. 

 Capric acid, 196, 313. 

 Caproic acid, 313. 

 Caprylic acid, 313. 

 Caramel, 187. 

 Carbamide, v. Urea. 

 Carbazole, 95. 

 Carbohydrate alcohols, 192. 



Carbohydrates, 179. 



digestible, in food-stuffs, 291. 

 Carbolic acid, v. Phenol. 

 Carbon, 6. 



dioxide, in atmosphere, 22. 

 in blood, 267. 



- production of, by fermentation, 

 185. 



rate of absorption of, by sunflower, 



230. 



disulphide, as disinfectant, 367. 

 as insecticide, 371. 



Carnallite, 154. 

 Carnine, 271. 

 Carrot, 250. 

 Carrotene, 216, 250. 

 Carvacrol, 203. 

 Carvone, carvol, 204. 

 Caryophyllene, 202. 

 Casein, 315. 



- coagulation of, 316, 339, 345. 

 Caseinic acid, 209. 

 Caseinogen, 315. 

 Cast-iron, manufacture of, 148. 

 Castor-seed cake, 283. 

 Castor-seeds, 243. 

 Catalytic manures, 160. 

 Catch crops, 162. 

 Cattle-" licks," 305. 

 Cedrene, 202. 

 Cellulose, 183, 189. 



hemi-, 194. 



ligno-, 193. 



nitro-, 190. 



thiocarbonate, 190. 

 Centrifugal action on milk, 334, 349. 

 Cereals, 234. 



Chabazite, 53. 

 Chalk, 11, 36, 158. 

 Charlock- spraying, 363. 

 Cheddar cheese, 340. 

 Cheese, 339. 



analysis of, 357. 



composition of, 341. 

 Cheeses, hard, 340. 



soft, 340. 



Chemical analysis of soils, limitations 

 of, 90. 



constituents of plants, 179. 

 Chemistry, organic, meaning of, 8. 

 Cheshire cheese, 340. 



Chick pea, 241. 



Chili saltpetre, 132. 



China clay, 12. 



Chinovose, 184. 



Chloride of lime, v. Bleaching powder. 



Chlorine, 12. 



as disinfectant, 361, 366. 



function of, in plants, 206. 



in rain-water, 32, 73. 

 Chlorite, 36. 

 Chlorophyll, 216. 



assimilation in relation to, 227. 



crystalline, 217. 



