INDEX. 



315 



Cail & Co., xxii, 803 

 Calcareous fertilizers, six, 138 



precaatiou before using, 139 

 soils, 107 



soils, reactions of, 134 

 California, beet sugar in, 42, 43 

 Cambrai, cost of cultivation in, 199 



Prance, agricultural statistics of, 34 

 Cane-mills, the amount of sugar that can 



be extracted by, 50 

 Capital utilized for sugar industry in the 



United States, 45 

 Carter sugar beet, 73 

 Cassida, 276 

 Castlenaudary, Bed, 63 



Yellow, 63 

 Cattle fed on pulp, increase of weight 



of, 300 

 Causes of loss of sugar, 239-240 



of loss of weight of beets, 242 

 Cellulose, 80 

 Cellular tissue, 87 



Champignon and Pellet, analysis of the 

 beet, 86 

 analysis of the seed of the beet, 



152-153 

 experiments of, 77, 82, 86, 92, 



144 

 on effects of nitric elements in 



the beet, 132 

 on the effects of rain on beets, 

 175 

 Champonnois, M., 179 



on cultivation in hills, 117 

 system of distillation, 304-305 

 Changes during vegetation, 173 

 Chappelet, 28 

 Chaptal, 27, 28, 243 

 Cbaptal's idea of a silo, 244, 245 

 Charcoal, use of, in silos, 255 

 Chatsworth, Illinois, 41 

 Cheapness not obtained by the brutaliza- 



tion of man, xvii 

 Chemical examination of the beet, 80-84 

 fertilizers, xviii, xix 



and barnyard manure, compar- 

 ative results of, 140 

 test, disadvantages of, 182 

 Child, David Lee, 41 

 Chinese system in the cultivation of bi- 

 annual plants, 185 

 Chloride, 83 



of lime to accelerate germination, 



160 

 of potassium, 83 



in the ash, 145 

 of sodium, 83 

 Chlorophyl, 80 



Civieres for transportation of beets, 221 

 Classification of sugars, 50 

 Clay, Henry, 44 

 soils of, 107 

 Clover, disadvantage of, in rotation, 210 

 Coignet, M., fertilizer, 150-151 

 Cold in silos, 240 

 Coleoptera, 264 

 Color of soils, 102 

 Colza, 213 



straw, utilization of, 213 

 Commerel, Abb6, book of, on the beet, 26 

 Comparative results of chemical fertil- 

 izers and barnyard manure, 140 

 Complete fertilizer, 127 



beneath the surface, 141 

 upon the surface, 141 

 Vine's, 149 

 manure, 146 

 Composition of a complete' manure, 140 



of the mines of Strassfurth, 137 

 Conservation of the sugar beet, 237-262 

 Consumption of sugar in England, 46 



in the United States, 1860-76, 

 46 

 Corbin's portable track and porteur, 216- 

 218 

 wagon locomotive, 215 

 Corenwinder, M., 93, 98, 134 

 Corenwinder's experiments, 144-145 



in planting beets on various 



soils, 137-138 

 with fertilizers, 1 50 

 Corn stalks, sugar from, 48 

 Cost of caltivation, xxi 



of cultivation and yield, 196-206 

 in America has nothing to do 



with Europe, 197 

 influenced by methods of sow- 

 ing, 197 

 Crespel, 27 

 Crops, rotation of, 207-213 



used for green manures, 129 

 which exhaust the soil, 57 

 Crud, Baron, 294 

 Cryptophagous, 278 

 Caltivation in drills, 111-117 



in hills, 117-122 

 Curculio, 272 



Darwin, 176 



Davy, Sir Humphry, on beet sugar, 27 



Decaisne, experiments of, 77 



Decaisne, M., 74, 79, 82 



Decauville's idea of transportation, 218- 



224 

 Deoombecque, M., estimate of food for 



an ox, 802 



