INDEX 



345 



Enzemes, 138 



Equalised guano, 297 



Erosion, 25 



Estramadurite, 210 



Evaporation, amount of, 69 



,, effect on tempera- 



ture, 80 



Excreta in farmyard manure, 306 



Exhaustion of soils, 163 



Exhaustive effects of manures, 

 266 



FALLOW, 132, 165 



Farmyard manure, .'305 



,, application of, 330 

 ,, composition of, 324 

 ,, excrements in, 306 

 ,, fermentation of, 314 

 ,, fertilising ingredients, 



327 



,, litter in, 312 

 ,, loss in making, 318 

 ,, manurial value, 326 

 ,, mechanical effects, 327 

 ,, preservatives for, 322 

 ,, retention of water by, 

 62 



Feathers, 251 



Feeding stuffs as manures, 303 



Felspars, 21, 128, 277 



Fermented bones, 241 



Ferments, formless, 138, 154 



,, nitric and nitrous, 156 



Ferns as litter, 314 

 ,, ,, manure, 304 



Ferric oxide in soil, 122, 131 

 ,, phosphate, 133, 220 



Ferrous sulphate, 199, 291, 322 



Fertilising ingredients of man- 

 ures, 180 



Fertility, 163 



Fine earth, 91, 122 

 Fish guano, 247 

 Fixation of free nitrogen, 142 

 ,, by non - leguminous 



plants, 151 

 Floculation, 86 

 Florida phosphate, 209 

 Flowers, manures for, 202, 288 

 Fluor-apatite, 20 

 Fluorides, 20 

 Fluorine in plants, 6 

 Foods, manurial value of, 338 



,, proportion retained by 



animals, 167, 308 

 Formation of soils, 40 

 Formations, geological, 42 

 French gardeners, 199, 200 



,, phosphates, 210 

 Freybentos meatmeal, 246 

 Frost, effects of, 25 

 Fruit trees, manures for, 210, 285, 



288 



Functions of manures, 180 

 Fungi, 137 



GAS lime, 119 

 liquor, 253 



Garden crops, manures for, 197, 

 242, 246, 251, 253, 285 



Geic acid, 109 



Gelatinous hydrates, 59, 67, 85, 

 106 



General manures, 203, 292 



Geological classification of rocks, 

 29,42 



German phosphates, 210 



German salts, 279 



Glaciation, 25 



Glycocine, 154 



Grain and grass crops, com- 

 position of, 169, 194 



