﻿6 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,. BULLS. 1-25. 



Beech wood — 



commercial uses in United States, 12, 2-11. 



properties, supply in United States, uses, preservative treatment, etc., 12, 2-11. 



use by ancients, note, 12, 3. 

 Beechnuts, uses in Europe, 12, 11. 

 Beef cattle — 



shrinkage in weight in transit, 25, 1-78. 



See also Cattle. 

 Beetle, long-horned, enemy of wattle; 9, 5. 

 Beet-pulp fed cattle, shrinkage in transit, 25, 44-47. 

 Beets, sugar — 



feed for sheep, caution, 20, 42. 



growing, irrigation, etc., California University farm, 10, 19-21. 

 Betula — 



fontinalis, habitat, note, 12, 30. 



kanaica, note, 12, 29. 



lenta. See Birch, sweet. 



nigra, properties, supply, uses, 12, 30-32. 



occidentalis, 12, 29. 



populifolia, description, uses, etc., 12, 29. 

 Bid well, John, acacia growing, note, 9, 7. 

 "Big fish," name for menhaden, 2, 7. 

 Birch— ' 



bark, uses, properties, etc., 12, 24-25, 28-29. 



sawmill cut, 1909, 12, 11. 



sweet, properties, supply in United States, uses, etc., 12, 11-18. 



wood, commercial uses, 12, 11-32. 

 Birches, varieties, properties, supply, and uses, United States, 12, 11-32. 

 Birds- 

 enemies of southern corn rootworm, 5, 9. 



migratory, regulation for protection, proclamation by President, 22, 17-22. 



reservations, new, establishment, 22, 3. 

 Bird's-eye maple, uses, demand, process of growth, 12, 38. 

 Black cottonwood, growing in Oregon and Washington, note, 24, 49. 

 Black Italian poplar, name for cottonwood, 24, 11. 

 Black maple. See Sugar maple. 

 Black sugar maple. See Sugar maple. 

 "Blackwood"— 



description, value, etc., 9, 17-18. 



soil requirements, 9, 3. 

 Blackberry, acid-tolerant crop, 6, 8. 

 Blackcap, acid-tolerant crop, 6, 8. 

 Bloating, sheep, precautions, 20, 40. 

 Blue beech, note, 12, 2. 

 Blueberry — 



acid-tolerant character, remarks, 6, 7. 



occurrence of mycorrhizal fungi, 6, 7. 

 Bluefish, destruction of menhaden, 2, 12-14. 

 Boats, fish, menhaden industry, types, description, 2, 22-23. 

 "Bony fish," name for menhaden, 2, 7. 

 Box elder, properties, supply, uses, etc., 12, 54-56. 



Box lumber, beech, birch, and maple, uses, demand, value, 12, 7, 22, 27, 44, 49, 52. 

 Bran, feed for sheep, value, 20, 44. 



