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Chapter CXXIII. Plant-lice and Scale-insects, Varieties of aphides 

 known to be destructive to crops ; life-history ; scale-insects which are destruc- 

 tive to crops or which are of economic value ; remedies against scale. 

 insects. pp. 725 to 728. 



Chapter CXXIV. Insects injurious to Indian crops. Paddy, wheat, 

 barley, oats, juar, maize, panic um mili a re, bajra, sugar-cane, gram, arahar, 

 brinjal, cucurbitaceous crops, jute, cotton, mustard, linseed, indigo, rabi- 

 crops, kharif crops, standing crops generally. pp. 728 to 731. 



Chapter CXXV. Zymotic diseases and remedies for them. Dia- 

 gnosis ] protective inoculation ; drainage and cultivation ; segregation ; disin- 

 fection ; pickling ; health a preventive ; burial of carcasses ; germicidal 

 substances. pp. 733 to 739- 



Chapter CXXVI. Agricultural Bacteriology. Occurrence of microbes ; 

 enzymes and microbes ; different kinds of fermentation ; antitoxin treatment ; 

 classification of microbes; reproduction ; saprophitic and parasitic microbes; 

 effect of heat, air, sunlight, germicides and antiseptics on microbes ; tillering <us, 

 boiling; facultative parasites ; dissemination by spores; pure cultures ; culture 

 media; mounting of slides ; counter-staining ; preservation of food-substances 

 by desiccation, freezing, addition of harmless antiseptics, addition of minute 

 quantities, of germicides, vinegar, and spirits of wine ; tinning ; sterilizing ; 

 condensed milk ; Pasteurized milk. pp. 739 to 75.4 



Chapter CXXVII. Dairy Bacteriology. Milk as a nutrient medium ; 

 bacteriology of dahi ; preparation of sanjo or seed ; disturbing microbes ; 

 curdling effected by several microbes and enzymes ; Oidium lactis ; sliminess 

 and stringiness of dahi ; bacteriology of cheese, kephir, and butter. 



pp. 754*0 759. 



Chapter CXXVI II. Soil Bacteriology. Fallow land gaining in fertility ; 

 bacteria forming root-nodules; successive crops of leguminous crops not 

 feasible; nitrification in manure heaps; micrococcus urese j micrococcus 

 nitrificans ; bacillus amylobacter ; bacterium termo ; bacillus subtilis ; bacillus 

 radicicola ; preparation of Nitragin. pp. 759 to 764. 



Chapter CXXIX. Anthrax and other vaccines. Symptoms of anthrax 

 and of charbon symptomatique distinguished clinically and bacteriologically ; 

 vaccines for the two diseases quite distinct ; bacillus anthracis and 

 bacterium Chauveau ; Principal Williams' confirmation of the facts regarding 

 extreme paucity of the bacilli until after death, and the exudation of blood 

 from anus and nostrils at death being a characteristic symptom ; symptoms 

 clinical and post-mortem of abdominal charbon identical with those of rinder- 

 pest J principle underlying inoculation ; attenuation of virus'; preparation of 

 rabies vaccine and charbon vaccines (Chauveau's, Arloing's, and Pasteur's 

 methods). Premier, deuxieme, virulent and revaccination vaccines, how 

 prepared j preparation of broths. pp. 764 to 794. 



