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INDEX. 



Manures, organic, 764, 780. 



— saline, 890. 

 Maple sugar, 341. 

 Maraschino, 398. 

 Marble, 88. 



Mark of grapes, 383, 479. 

 Margarine, 515, 694. 

 Marl, 871. 

 Mashing, 401, 415. 

 Mead, 394. 

 Meat boiling, 619. 



— roasting, 627. 

 Medicines, action of, 634. 

 Mercury, 298. 



— chlorides, 300. 



— oxides of, 299. 



— sulphuret of, 298, 301. 

 Metallic alloys, 314. 



— oxides, 269. 



— salts, 270. 

 Metals, 196, 291. 

 Milk, 568. 

 Millet, 333. 

 Minium, 310. 

 Mixture, 4, 125. 



— of soils, 857. 

 Molasses, 343, 409. 

 Mordants, 324, 542. 

 Mortar, 236. 

 Mosaic gold, 308. 

 Mould, 673. . , 

 Mouldering, 765. 

 Mouldiness, 797. 

 Mucilage, 337. 

 Muriate of aoimonia, 156. 



•— lime, 241. 



— magnesia, 251. 



— soda, 216. 

 Muriates, 186. 

 Muriatic acid, 186. 

 Muscle, 564, 602. 

 Muscovado sugar, 343. 

 Murk, 383, 479. 

 Must, 385. 

 Mustard, 510, 938. 



Naphtha, 537. 

 Nascent state, 769, 774. 

 Natural vegetation, 747. 



Night-soil, 807. 



— disinfected, 810. 

 Nitrate oflimcj 163, 240. 



— potash, 206, 240, 899. 



— soda, 217, 903. 



— silver, 296. 

 Nitrates, 163. 



— in plants, 901. 

 Nitre, 206, 899. 



— beds, 240. 



— cubic, 217. 



Nitric acid, 163, 217, 772. 



— in manure, 837, 899. 

 Nitrogen, 27, 146. 

 Noyeau, 398. 



Nutrition of plants, 636, 681, 720. 



— animals, 600, 604. 



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Oak-ashes, 1006. 

 Oats, 333, 917. 

 Odors of plants, 509. 

 Oil, 606. 



— cake, 851. 



— castor, 510, 938. 

 Oil of cloves, 512. 



— cocoa-nut, 611. 



— dregs, 823. 



— drying, 508, 510. 



— fat, 508, 610. 

 — • fixed, 508. 



— linseed, 510, 935, 938. 



— mustard, 610, 938. 



— of lavender, 512. 

 — • lemons, 610. 



— turpentine, 407, 512, 533. 



— vitriol, 179. 



— olive, 510, 938. 



— poppy, 510, 938. 



— rape, 610, 938. 



— rock, 637. 



— seeds, 938. 



— volatile, 509,512. 

 Oleine, 516, 594. 

 Opodeldoc, 531. 



Ores, roasting of, 302, 310. 

 Organic acids, 49,3. 



— manures, 764, 780. 

 Organic matter, 315, 722. 



— substances in soils, 667. 



— transformations, 366, 



