INDEX. 



A. 



Page. 



Abortion in cows 877, 469 



Acres, twenty cows on twenty 496 



Acre, what can be raised on one- 

 fourth of 515 



Addresses at the exhibition. .. . 103, 113 



Agricultural situation, review of the, 390 



Alabama, iron deposits in 732 



Alloy, a valuable 74S 



American Institute, officers of 2 



American wines 509 



Ancients, atomic doctrine of the. . . 866 



Aniline colors 970 



Animal phosphorescence 668 



Appetite, perverted, in cattle 457 



Apple growing at the South 376 



parer 256 



Aqueous vapor of the atmosphere. . 980 



Artificial leather 882 



stone, the Sorel 772 



Ashes as a fertilizer 802 



using and spreading manure. 455 



wood, a lady farmer uses. . . . 261 



Atmospheric germs, the theory of. . 576 



Atoms and molecules 866 



Aurora, sounds from the 713 



Australian timber, valuable 578 



Ax, a day's work with 404 



B. 



Babcock Fire Extinguisher 215 



Ball lightning 907 



Barker, Geo. F., lecture by 183 



Barnard, F. A. P., papers by. . 819, 931 



Bat's wing 565 



Bean, vanilla, as a vermin destroyer, 283 



Beef, extract of 769 



Beef tea and meat extracts 748 



Bees, keeping of 244 



Bees, wintering, want of care in 493 



Bessemer's gun 878 



Bisulphide of carbon engine, Ellis' . 806 



Blanchard, V. W., papers by. . 852, 853 



Blowing off steam 805 



Boiler making 967 



Boilers 928 



Bones, to decompose 453 



using, and killing moss 869 



Borer, quince 547 



Boron apparently volatilized 7 15 



Boulders, burning, versus blasting. . 



Bradley, Dr. L., paper by 947 



Page. 

 Brass and copper, influence of, 



against cholera 668 



Bread fruit, or chayote, of Mexico. . 550 



Brick, strength of 903 



Broom corn .' 490 



Brush machine 630 



Bug, Colorado 310 



potato, Paris green for the .... 260 



Bugs, melon 274 



Buildings, domestic, pasteboard in. . 275 

 Bulls, Durham, for the great plains 



and Pacific slope 251 



But ter factories 306 



making 317, 512 



to color 334 



c. 



Cabbages, how to raise 491 



California, irrigation in 266 



Canal boat, steam 639 



Carbonate of soda 709 



Cape May soils and crops 439 



Car coupler, self-adjusting 588 



Car wheels, compensating 594 



Cattle, cost of cooking for 247 



grubs in 467 



perverted appetite in 457 



red, of New England 279 



trocar for 458 



Cement, Portland 897 



Cement stone 901 



Chandler, C. F., lectures by. . . 199, 970 



Cheese factory, best floor for 498 



making on small farms. ... 262 



Chemical reaction 668 



Chemistry of the sun 188 



Cheshire or Yorkshire pigs, improv- 

 ed 472 



Chestnut and fruit trees 511 



Chiccory for horses 558 



Chinese puzzle 895 



Chlorine, action of light upon. . 873, 908 

 Cholera, influence of brass and cop- 

 per against. ... 668 



Chord, "musical, second and sixth 



imperfect 815 



Chromium and its compounds 617 



Chronograph printing 566 



Churning 311 



Cistern filtering 303 



self-filtering 290 



well constructed 314 



