INDEX. 
Apams, J. H., his experience in grow- 
ing tobacco, 348, 371. 
Algz in Boston water-supply, 75. 
Alder-wood, chemical composition of, 
389, 392, 395, 403. 
Alkali soils, 344. 
Analyses of bamboo-ashes, 420; of 
broom-corn seed, 94; of buck- 
wheat-straw, 51; of eel-grass, 49; 
of grasses (see the names of the 
grasses); of kernels of fruits (see 
the names of the fruits) ; of leaves, 
47; of lobster-shells, 176; of muds 
from sea-bottoms, 21; of pump- 
kins, 81, 221; of rocks, 7, 18; of 
sands, 10, 17; of the scouring- 
rush, 166; of sea-shells, 176, 188; 
of shales, 8, 18; of shells of crabs, 
176, 188; of sorghum-seeds, 99; of 
spent coffee, 39; of spent dye- 
woods, 26, 45; of spent tan, 26; 
of spent tea-leaves, 37; of tan- 
bark, 26; of squashes, 81; of the 
strawberry, 417; of weeds, 115, 
118, 123-127, 166, 255; of woods 
(see the names of the woods). 
Anthracite sand is a fit material in 
which to strike cuttings or start 
seeds, 71. 
Apples, feeding value of, 147. 
Apricot-stones, chemical composition 
of, 889, 392, 393, 395, 404. 
Art of the farrier, the, 1. 
Asclepias Cornuti, analyses of young 
shoots of, 255. 
Ashes of bamboo, 420; of wood, see 
- Wood-ashes. 
BamsBoo, ashes of, 420. 
Bark of trees, is eaten by animals and 
by men, 390. 
Basket-willow, cultivation of, 429. 
Beach-pea, eaten as greens, 115. 
Beaver, eats bark and twigs, 390. 
Béchamp’s wood-dextrin, 466. 
Betula populifolia, chemical compo- 
sition of wood of, 387 et seq. 
Birch-wood, chemical composition of, 
387, 389, 392, 399, 403, 409, 414; 
products from acid hydrolysis of, 
440, 451; yields little wood-gum 
when decayed, 409. 
Birds, grinding action in their giz- 
zards, 334; need animal food when 
young, 330. g 
Black-knot, of plum- and cherry- 
trees, 107. 
Blue joint-grass, analyses of, 130. 
Bran, chemical composition of, 153. 
Bread, made of rye and Indian corn, 
138; when made of coarse flours 
it is not completely digested, 269. 
Brewers’ grains, feeding value of, 
146. 
Broom-corn seed, analyses of, 94; 
feeding value of, 96, 150; might 
be preserved as ensilage, 105. 
Browse, feeding value of, 47. 
Buckwheat plants, fed with peat and 
alkali, 72; grown in sand and coal- 
ashes, 159. 
Buckwheat straw, composition of, 
51; fodder value of, 54. 
Bussey Institution, remarks on the 
pecuniary condition of, 253. 
Butter-milk, feeding value of, 138, 
146. 
CALAMAGROSTIS CANADENSIS, anal- 
yses of, 130. 
Camp, G. S., his observations on 
shales rich in potash, 18. 
Capnodium elongatum, 113. 
Carbonate of baryta, for poisoning 
rats and mice, 273. 
Carbonate of lime, formed in dry 
soils, 195; prevents poisonous ac- 
tion of lead and baryta on mice, 
274. 
Carbonic acid, in water of springs 
and wells, 214. 
Carya tomentosa, knots on, 107. 
Catalogue of fungi found near Bos- 
ton, 224. 
Cellulose, acted on by enzyms, 438 ; 
dextrins from, 466, and sugar from, 
437 et seq., 465; methods of esti- 
mating, 402 ; as areserve matter (?) 
