470 BULLETIN 
in trees, 437; quantity in woods, 
ete., 402, 410. 
Charlock seeds, may long retain their 
vitality when buried in the soil, 
321. 
Chenopodium album, analyses of, 127. 
Cherry-stones, eaten by pigeons, 324. 
Clam-shells, analyses of, 176. 
Clover, feeding value of, 149. 
Clover seeds, an instance of their 
power to resist water, 317; often 
escape digestion by animals, 320. 
Coal-ashes, buckwheat grown in, 159. 
Coffee-berries spent, analyses of, 39. 
Coniferous trees, little wood-gum 
from, 414. 
Cotton, dextrins from, 466, and sugar 
from, 454 et seq.; hydrolysis of, 
454. 
Crabs, composition of shells of, 176. 
Curled dock, analyses of leaves of, 
255. 
. Dana, S. L., his experience in com- 
posting peat with alkalies, 353. 
Dandelion leaves, analyses of, 115 
Danthonia spicata, germination of its 
cleistogamous seeds, 340. 
Date-stones, chemical composition 
of, 389, 392, 393, 395, 4038; eaten 
by animals, 398. 
Dextrins from cotton, 465, and from 
wood, 465. 
Dextrose from cotton, 454, and from 
wood, 438, 445; reversion of, 440; 
rotatory power of, 439. 
Dibolia aerea, feeds on _ plantain 
leaves, 123. 
Diseases of plants caused by fungi, 
106. 
Dock, analyses of leaves of, 255. 
Dung of mice, why white sometimes, 
264. 
Dye-woods, spent, analyses of, 26. 
EEL-GRASS, composition of, 49; in 
fresh water ponds, 77. 
Enzyms act on cellulose, 438. 
Equisetum arvense, analyses of, 166 ; 
may be harmful, 169. 
Erysiphe graminis, 112. 
Fartow, Prof. W.G., papers by, on 
alge found in water supplies of 
Boston, 75; fungi found in vicinity 
of Boston, 224; on some common | 
diseases caused by fungi, 106. 
OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 
Farrier, art of the, 1. 
Fertilizers, amounts strewn by a 
workman’s hand, 261; analyses of, 
21, 26, 39, 45, 47, 49, 176, 188, 420. 
‘¢ Fire leaves,” which cause hay to 
‘sheat, ¥207; 
Fish scrap, as cattle food, 156. 
Flax plants, as fodder, 121. 
Flechsig’s method of hydrolyzing 
cotton, 457. 
Flesh, feeding value of, 146. 
Fodder corn, feeding value of, 151. 
Fodder rations, certain American, 
137. 
Ford, L. S., his observations on phy- 
sical characters of two common 
grasses (Holcus and Danthonia), 
307. 
Forestry in New England, as related 
to the white pine, 377. 
Formulas for computing specific ro- 
tation, 439. 
Fungi, list of those found near Bos- 
ton, 224; some common diseases 
caused by, 106; on willow roots, 
436. 
Furfurol, amount obtained from cer- 
tain woods, 387; from starch, etc., 
419, 
GALACTOSE, rotatory power of, 439. 
Germination, of clover seeds, 317, 
320; of Danthonia seeds, 340; of 
weed seeds, 289, 320. 
Glucose, see Dextrose. 
Glucosids in wood and bark, 437. 
Granite, potash and phosphoric acid 
in;, Fe 
Grape-vine mildew, 108. 
Grass, feeding value of, 141. 
Grasses, analyses of, 130; physical 
properties of Danthonia and Hol- 
cus, 337. 
Green sand marl, a useful fertilizer, 
371. 
Ground-hog, see Woodchuck. 
Gudkow, his experiment on feeding 
a pig with bran, 397, 402. 
Gypsum, more soluble in syrup than 
in water, 464. 
Hay, feeding value of, 149; matters 
lost from, on leaching it, 41; spon- 
taneous combustion of, 257. 
Hemicelluloses as reserve matter in 
trees, 437. 
Hersey, Edmund, papers by, on the 
growth and value of the white pine, 
