INDEX 



1035 



Veterinary department of Board of 



Agriculture, 468 

 Vetch, kidney, 229 

 Vibrio tritici, 168 

 Vida sativa, 227 

 Vices of worlting horses, 793 

 Vitiation of air by combustion, 35 

 Vitrified paving-brick, 282 



Walnut, 184 



"Walls, inside, 280 



War. See Military Hygiene 



Warble cell, 428 



fly, 415, 428 

 Warming stables, 67 

 'Washy' horses, 115 

 Water, 1 



analyses, 26 



ammonia in, 20 



bacteriological examination of, 

 16 



chemical analysis of, 13 



chlorine in, 18 



Clark's process, 13 



classification of, 8 



collection of. 5 



copper in, 22 



dropwort, 176, 177 



examination of, 13 



filtration of, 12 



hardness of, 10, 17 



hemlock, American, 176 



inferences from qualitative tests, 

 22 



impure, diseases produced by, 

 28 



impurities found in, 9 



iron in, 22 



lead in, 22 



lime in, 17 



microscopical examination of, 15 



magnesia in, 18 



nitric acid in, 19 



nitrous acid in, 19 



oxydizable matter in, 21 



physical examination of, 14-15 



phosphoric acid in, 21, 23 



Water — continued 



plants, purifying action of, 6 



purification of, 12 



qualitative examination of, 16 



quantity required, 27 



reaction of, 17 



river, 6 



sources of, 3 



storage of, 12 



sulphuric acid in, 18 



troughs, disinfection of, 409 

 Watery vapour in stable air, 89 



the air, 34 

 Watson's cattle-feeding mixture, 129" 

 Weaning of calves, 126 

 'Weaving' (horses), 751 

 Weevil, 169 



Weiglrt, weekly increase, cattle, 126- 

 Weights and measures, 1014 

 Well, area drained by, 8 

 Wells, ai'tesian, 7 



deep and shallow, 7 

 Wheat, 242 



for horses, 157 

 Wheels, height and width of, 829 

 Whipple-trees, equalizing, 829 

 White scour, 51, 394, 595, 833 



skit, 858 

 Wind-sucking, 143, 750 

 Woburn experiment in feeding, 129 

 Wool, feeding sheep for, 132 

 Wool-sorters' disease, 196. See An- 

 thrax 

 Work of horses, 116, 773 



producing power of food. 111 

 Worms, 435 



Yard feeding of cattle, 128 



straw, 344 

 Yards, covered and open, 344 

 Yeasts, 453 

 Yellow oat-grass, 216 

 Yew poisoning, 191 



tree, 191 



Zinc chloride, 404 

 Zygadenus venenosus, 183 



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