THE INDEX 



Building equipment. See Building 

 construction; Farm buildings; 

 Heating; Lighting; Lightning 

 rods; Telephones; Water supply 



Building materials, 1 58-1 72 ; brick, 



158 f., 208, 308 f.; creosote, 

 170; flooring, 163; glass, 161; 

 insulating materials, 160; nails 

 and screws, 161 ff. ; .paint, 

 167 ff. ; paper, 167; plaster, 

 166 f.; roofing, 164 ff.; stains, 



170 f. ; stone, 158; tile, 159; 

 varnishes, 171; wall sidings, 



159 f. ; wax, 171; whitewash, 



171 f. 



Buildings. See Farm buildings 

 Bureau of Public Roads, 198, 200 

 Bushel, legal weight of, 17, 18 



Calcium chloride solution, freez- 

 ing points of, 520 



Cams, 473, 515 



Candle power, 424 



Carbon-filament lamps, 434 



Carburetor, 496 ff.; adjustment 

 of, 498; gravity system for 

 supplying fuel to, 495; opera- 

 tion of, 497 f.; overflow system 

 for supplying fuel to, 495; 

 pressure system for supplying 

 fuel to, 495 f.; Rayfield (ill.), 

 499; spray- nozzle type of, 

 496 ff.; Stromberg (ill.), 497; 

 vacuum system for supplying 

 fuel to, 496 



Catalpa, 228 



Cedar, 106, 123, 126, 228 



Ceiling, 116 



Cells: dry, 501 f.; methods of 

 connecting, 501 f., 504, 506; 

 primary, 501 f.; secondary, or 

 storage battery, 502 ff. 



Cement, 129, 130 ff. {see also 

 Concrete); for floors, 163, 164; 

 for plaster, 167; for roads, 208, 

 209; initial set of, 129, 147; 

 manufacture and handling of, 

 131; matrix, 129; mortar, 129; 

 natural, 130; neat, 129; paint 

 for, 170; Portland, 130 f. ; prop- 

 erties essential in making, 130; 

 storing of, 131; wet, 131 



Centigrade, formula for convert- 

 ing to Fahrenheit, 23 



Cesspool, 388 



Chain: engineers', 9, 14; errors 

 in measurements in use of, 14 f. ; 

 names for, 9; surveyors', 8 f., 

 14, 94; zero point of, 15 



Chain-and-sprocket, 469 



Chaining, 13 ff. 



Checks: contour, 255; rectangular, 



254 

 Chestnut, 124, 126 



Chicken house, 341 f. 



Chill point, or cold point, 465 



Circle: formula for area of, 16; 

 location of an object on (ill.), 20 



Circuit: ground, 449, 453 f.; 

 metallic, 449, 453 f. 



Circulation of air and water, 

 402 ff. 



Cistern, 368 f. 



Clay for roads, 210, 211 



Clearance space, 509 



Clevise holes, position of, 481 f. 



Climate: cycles, 72 ff.; factors in 

 modification of, 74; humid, 250 



Climatology, 72-82 



Closets, water, 376, 378 



Closing corner, 89 



Coal, 417 f 



Coconut, coir fiber from, 31 



Coefficient of friction, 462 



Cog gears, 471 f. 



Coir fiber, 31 



Coke, 418 



Color substitutes for paints, 169 



Colorado Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, 233 



Columbia, S. C, rainfall statistics 

 for, 251 



Columns, 70 f . 



Combustible, definition, 173 



Combustion chamber, 509; tem- 

 perature in, 518 



Commissioner of Land Office, 10 1 



Commissioner of Public Lands, 

 102 



Compass: correcting for varia- 

 tion in, 26; for surveying, 94; 

 magnetic, 25 f.; mariner's, 26; 

 surveyor's, 26 



Compression, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 



Concrete, 129-157 {see also Ag- 

 gregate; Cement); bonding, 

 150; coloring, 154 f.; consist- 

 ency, 129, 142 ff.; construction 



