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Table II.— Composition of Fresh or Air-flry Agricnlt'I Proaucts in 1,000 parts..381 



Table ni.— Proximate Composition of Agricultural Plants and Products 385 



Table IV.— Detailed Analyses of Bread Grains |88 



Table V.— Detailed Analyses of Potatoes 389 



Table VI.— Detailed Analyses of Sugar Beets 389 



Table VH.— Composition of Fruits 390 



Table Vin.— Fruits arranged in the Order of their Content of Sugar 393 



Table IX.— Fruits arranged in the Order of their Content of Free Acid 393 



Table X.— Fruits arranged according to proportions between Acid, Sugar, etc. .393 

 Table XI.— Fruits arranged according to the proportions between Water, 



Soluble Matters, etc 394 



Table XIL— Proportion of Oil in Seeds 394 



INDEX. 



Absorption by the root. . . .2.S9, 250, 251 

 Access of air to interior of Plant. . .288 



Acids, Definition of 86 



" Testfor 87 



Acid elements 113 



Adhesion 26, 349 



Agriculture, Art of IT 



Agricultural products, Composition 



in 1,000 parts 381 



Agricultural Science, Scope of. ^ 



" Experiment-Stations of 



Germany 24 



Air-passages in plant 289 



Air-roots 253 



Akene 301 



Albumin 96 



Albuminoids, Characters and com- 

 position 94 



Albuminoids in animal nutrition. . . 104 



" Diffusion of. .364 



" in oat-plant 211, 215 



" Mutual relations of. . .103 

 " Proportion of, in vege- 

 table products 109 



Alburnum 282 



Alcohol from saw -dust 75 



Aleurone 105 



Algae 177, 223 



Alkali-earthB 125 



" " Function of 197 



" " Metals 125 



Alkali-metals 123 



Alkalies 80, 124 



" Testfor 87 



" Functionof 197 



Alkaloids 110 



Alum, decomposed by diffusion... 364 



Alumina 129 



Aluminum 129 



Ammonia, Carbonate 49 



" iu plants 108 



" Salts of 137 



" " in plant 137 



Amyloids 55 



" Transformation of 78 



Anhydrous phosphoric acid 117 



'' silicic acid 120 



" sulphuric acid 115 



Anther '292 



Apatite 135 



Apple, Cells of 223 



Arabic acid 70 



Arabin 70 



Arendt, Estimation of sulphur and 



sulphuric acid 1 95 



Arendt, Study of oat-plant 204 



" Analysis of oat-plant 141 



Argol 88 



Arrow root 63 



Arsenic in plants 123, 196 



Ai't and Science 17 



Artificial fecundation 295 



Ash-Ingredients 112, 138 



" " Excess of. 187 



" " " how dis- 

 posed of. 189 



Ash-Ingredients, Function of, in 



plant 196 



Ash-Ingredients, The indispensable. 146 

 " " State of, in plant. . . 193 



Ash of plants. 30, 111 



" " Analyses, Tables of.150, 376 

 " " Composition of, nor- 

 mal 163 



Ash of plants. Composition of, va- 

 riations in 157, 163 



Ash of oat-crop 212, 216 



" Proportions of. Tables 139, 145 



" " " variations in. ..143 



Asparagus, Ash-analyses 176 



Assimilation 325 



Atmosphere, OOices of. 329 



Atoms ^ 47 



Atomic weigm .47, 48 



Avenin. lOl 



Azote 39 



Bark 2«9, 275 



" Ash of. 380 



Barley, Ash-analyses. .150, 153, 160, 378 



" Proximate analyses as7 



" " " detailed..388 



" Eoot-cap of 236 



" Eoot-hairs of 244 



Barley-Sngar 73 



Baryta in plants .'.'.'.' . .196 



Bases, Definition of 86 



Bassorin 71 



Bast-cells .". .276,'27o 



Bast-Tissne . . . . . ' 233 



Baybcrry tallow . 91 



Beau, Ash-aualyscs isi.'iji,' 379 



" Proximate analysis 387 



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