INDEX 



A. 



Page. 



Absinthe 350 



Accidents on railroads and steamboats . . . 400 



Acclimation 240 



Actinism 323 



Aftermath 98 



Agriculture in Peru 202, 219 



southern Illinois 144 



Agricultural products imported 67 



Ailanthus silk 112 



Air and steam engine 47fi 



Air rarificJ by altitude 638 



Alcohol from coal gas 423 



Alloy from silver and zinc 310 



Almond 681 



Aluminium or aluminum 446, 565 



Amazon, the delta of the 388 



American Institute, officers of iii 



American Pomological Society at Roches- 

 ter 116 



Ammonia from nitrous oxide 596 



produced by soils 564 



Anffisthetic, now 318 



Aniline green and black 373, 569 



Anthracite for locomotives 457 



Anti-corrosive mixture 439 



Ants, how to trap 25 



Apple,' Stevens' sweet 668 



the Scribner 639 



Apples, 137, 170, 203, 631, 657, 658, 661, 667 



680 



bitter rot in 255 



how to keep 124 



to be named 130, 178 



suited to Illinois 167, 169 



Iowa 63 



Wisconsin 173 



Apple trees 92, 148 



Apple tree beetle 53 



borers, remedy for 93, 269 



insects 239, 256 



hedge 199 



fence posts. ..•: 37 



Arabian ink 447 



Aroma, extracting and preserving 423 



Asteroid, new 571 



Ashes as a manure 150, 258 



Asparagus beds, how to make 49 



Atmosphere, analysis of 442 



height of 538 



impure at New York 441 



Auk, the great 396 



Autumnal leaves 291 



B. 



Badger fur 393 



Ballistic apparatus 424 



Barberry alcohol 491 



Barrow's address 607 



Barks, tannin in 568 



Page. 



Barrel, the hermetical 381 



Battery, electrical 344, 347 



Beans, for a late crop of 74 



manure for '39 



string, how preserved 360 



Bcecher on landscape gardening 702 



Bells, manufacture of "... 496, 516 



forming a musical scale 519 



Benzole 325 



Bees 156, 260 



in California 38 



do toads eat? 97 



stings, cure for 270 



Beet sugar .' 217 



Billiard balls 397 



Births in Cuba 318 



Bisulphide of carbon 457 



Bitumen from Brazil 570 



Blackberries 51 



Blackberry cuUnrd 252, 290 



blackberry wine 270 



Black-knot, cure for 184, 294 



Bleaching straw 407 



Blight of fruit trees 27,44,47, 54 



Blowing tubes for raising oil 346, 355 



Boiler explosions 321 



Bolts , 315 



Bond, G. B., honors to 571 



Bonnets of straw 400, 412 



Bookworms, how destroyed 439 



Botany 662 



Bouquets, arrangement of 616 



Braiding straw 399 



Bread making 283 



Breath, human 387 



Brick, dry pressed 291 



Brines, how to dissolve 287 



Bridge at Albany 5S0 



at Washington 456 



over Messina 311 



over the Seine 456 



Broadway, N. Y., improvement of 321 



Bromide of potassium 339 



Broom corn 68, 174 



Buckwheat, as a manure crop 143 



Building in Ceylon 481 



Buried city '. 579 



Bursting of large plate 560 



Bushes, when to cut 185 



Buttons of paper 409 



C. 



Cabbage culture 261 



Cables, chain 372 



Calcareous spar 394 



Calculating machine 576 



California cotton 198 



Calves raised by hand 275 



CampbclPs lecture 662 



Canada thistles 60,95, 114 



