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Index. 



Page. 



Brunei, the engineer 789 



Buckles coated with hard rubber. . 740 



Buckwheat, plowing under 548 



Buds, premature 850 



Butfalo, training tlie 593, 643 



Buffers for ship cables 801 



Building stones 763 



Bustead on the cattle plague 315 



Butter, grain in 630 



keeping of 377 



c. 



Cahoons seed sower 583 



Calico printing, rollers for 857 



California. . '. 354, 464 



Camera box and stand 1104 



Canal, Erie, importance of. 899 



Cane and corn in Florida 456 



Canker' worm, protection from.... 475 



Cannon shot and armor 995 



the Krupp 938 



Carbolic acid as a therapeutic agent, 1066 

 external application of 935 



Carpet beater 1003 



cleaning machine 730 



Castor oil plant 667 



Catterpillars 300 



Cattleya dowiana 800 



Cattle plague 315, 413 



Cement for sealing bottles 1065 



Celestial observations of southern 



hemisphere 760 



Cerium 759 



Champagne, American. 449, 461 



Chapman's photographs 1094 



Charcoal from sea weed 1056 



Cheap buildings 278 



Cheese, keeping quality of 588 



making 514, 573, 669 



Chemical changes 757 



elements, combining pow- 

 er of 989 



Chemistry, primeval 133 



Chestnut trees, growing of 387 



Chicago river tunnel 757, 984 



Chicory 456 



Chickens, gapes in 306 



Chlamyder, the 814 



Churn dash ...,.., 671 



Cider, making of 633 



Cisterns 266 



of terracotta 997 



Clamp, new screw 830 



Climate, change of 538 



Clock for Trinity church 693 



Clothes line and halter clench 477 



Clough on clarifying Sorgham syrup 303 



Clough's oil gas light 753 



Clover, alsike 575, 651 



as a fertilizer 225 



sowing with wheat 308 



when to sow 633, 042 



Coffee used in photographj^ 818 



Coin, testing weight of 735 



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Collodion leather 950 



Colorado mines 1064 



Color and light 1071 



plienomena of 987 



Coloring matter, poisonous 1015 



Colors, the prismatic 854 



Combustion 950 



spontaneous 529 



Comet, Brorsen's 760 



Comstock's spader and digger 586 



Concrete houses 7 208 



walls 893 



Condenser tubes, injured by salt 



water 822 



Conover on the great need of south- 

 ern shippers and growers 373 



Contrast between 1776 and 1868. . . '253 



Cooke on the spectroscope 158 



Copying process 1056 



Constructive materials, varieties of. 673 



Coral keys, the.. 712 



Corn and seed planter 238, 365 



green, drying of 327 



husker 205, 335 



importance of planting 332 



Rhode Island sweet 438 



seed 558, 568 



sweet 484 



, naming of 456, 529 



Cotton, cotton seed and guano .... 616 



seed as a manure 521, 646 



waste, as a manure 1034 



Council for young men 656 



Cow, natural history of the 281 



Cows for the south 261 



how to keep clean in stalls . . 457 



winter feed for 457 



Cranberries 403 



mode of planting. . 522, 561 



Crandall ofi earth closets 439 



Cronk's steamer 373 



Crops, new, for southern climates. . 667 



Crows 374 



Crystallization of sulphur 758 



Cucumbers, pickling of 663 



Curculio 201, 363, 722 



Cure of sick animals 650 



Currant, the black 344 



worm 240 



Currants tree 526 



Cut worms 258 



D. 



Dahlia."^ 384 



Dawson on the primeval flora 69 



Death, new mode of causing 942 



Deep and shallow plowing, 222, 288, 267 



268, 296, 840, 404, 439, 447, 479, 490 



503,539,609,624, 672 



Delaware fruits and veuetablcs 249 



Dental plates ." 829 



Diamonds, black 1051 



Dibbin on Colorado 1064 



Digets, extra 1006 



