INDEX. 



A. 



Pase. 



Absorbent, the best 666 



Abyssinian, jibara 799 



Address at the Polytechnic Associa- 

 tion , l^ 



Agricultural press odo 



Air compressing pump 716 



Alarm, Hills' air lOol 



Alazarine 714 



Alcohol from lichens 941 



Aldernev stock 639 



Alexander on the telescope 45 



Aluminum, bronze 1009 



medals •■ • • 704 



Amylic alcohol, oxidation of 718 



Ana'lysis of muck, its composition 



and value 654 



Animals, longevity and intelligence 



of 261 



Anthony's photographs. 1096, 1100, 1114 



Apatite 944 



Apple cions 569, 623 



crab 567 



pomace 559 



the Dongan 670 



tree worms .• • • 225 



^Apples for cider 248 



the prairie States 498 



fraud in putting up 473 



hoTV much in a'b.-irrel 582 



shall I have plenty 537 



varieties of 490 



without seeds or cores 303 



Apple trees, deep planted 436 



pruning of 539 



seedling 199 



the future of 416 



the way to set out 524 



Artificial manures 689 



Ashes and slaked lime 522 



coal 200, 465, 6S9, 644 



leached and unleached 295 



Asparagus ^Oo 



Aspirator, improved 722 



Astral oil, Pratt's 1002 



Astronomy, use of spectroscope in. 822 



Axles, cast-steel iron steel-plated . . 751 



B. 



Babcock on indicator diagrams 1078 



Barberry hedge 227, 427 



Page. 



Barley, growing of 593, 641 



when to sow , 444 



Barnard on the microscope and its 



revelations 18 



Barnum on elevated railways 907 



Barometer 56 



Basement floors .■ . . 1012 



Batteries, galvanic 1037 



Battery, air tight galvanic 723 



constant 723 



new liquid for 934 



Beans, cultivation of 556, 636 



Beef and pork, salting of 414 



Bee hives 207 



keepers, interesting to 664 



Beet syrup 304 



Bergh on horse flesh for food 209 



Birds, worms in brain of 1000 



Blackberries, how propagated and 



managed 427 



Black knot on fruit trees 208, 641 



Blasting granite 997 



Bleaching, new method of 854 



of flax fibre 839 



palm oil 721 



wood pulp 998 



Blight on trees 664 



Blind opener 314 



Blue grass and clover seed 277 



Bog manure 385 



Boiler alarm, self-acting 1014 



Boilers, protection of 1014 



Bone dust and superphosphate 389 



Bones as a fertilizer 645 



dissolving of 201 



groimd 364 



how to crush 522 



Boots, patent soles for 956 



Botany, study of 309. 



Bradley on tunnel railway 742 



Bread making, Horsford 99, 271 



Breeding from young stock 303 



Brewing, sugar in 815 



Brick machine 824 



Bricks, new material for 943 



I Bridge over the Ohio 810 



i Susquehanna 820 



I Bridges of concrete 996 



suspension 1029 



i to Brooklyn. .953, 957, 985, 1002 



Bridle bits, steel 951 



■ Broom corn, value of for food. .349, 386 



