138 INDEX. 



Fertilizers — Concluded. page 

 Muriate compared with sulphate of potash in connection with sulphate of 



ammonia for corn, 22 



Natural phosphates compared with each other and with acid phosphate, . li 



Special corn fertilizer v. fertilizer richer in potash, 12 



Sulphate of iron as a fertilizer, 27 



Trade values of fertilizer ingredients, 112 



"Wool washings as fertilizer, 126 



Fire blight, 60 



Formaldehyde gas as fungicide, 49 



Geranium, disease of 67 



Grasses, variety tests of, 29 



Grass land, manuring of, .... o 26 



Horticulturist, report of, 71 



Hydrocyanic gas as fungicide 49 



Idaho field or coffee pea, -36 



Meteorologist, report of, 45 



Millets, 31 



Panicum crus-galli, 32 



Panicum italicum, 33 



Panicum miliaceum, 32 



Nitrogen : 



Leguminous crops as nitrogen gatherers, 19 



Nitragin, 26 



Relative value of different manures furnishing nitrogen, .... 21 



Potato crop (1897), causes of failure 52 



Potatoes, variety tests of, 28 



Poultry experiments, 37 



Condition powder for producing eggs, 38 



Cut bone v. animal meal for producing eggs, 41 



Clover rowen v. cabbage for producing eggs, 42 



Quince rur,, 61 



Saccaline, 35 



Soil tests 9 



"With corn, 10 



"With potatoes, 10 



Soya beans, 33 



Spraying as preventive of diseases, 50 



Stumps, reputed method of destroying 37 



Sycamore, leaf blight of, 68 



Tobacco, field experiments with 128 



Treasurer's report, 7 



"Winter vetch 36 



