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BULLETIN OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 473 
sprouts of milk-weed, 255, of 
weeds used as human food, 115, 
of ashes of bamboo baskets, 420; 
assaying of soils by means of sand 
culture, 292; chemical composition 
of buckwheat-straw, 51, of blue 
joint-grass and reed canary-grass, 
130, of horse-tail or scouring-rush, 
166, of pumpkins and squashes, 
81, 221; chemical examination of 
shells of crabs, lobsters, oysters, 
clams, mussels, and other shell- 
fish, 176; chemical substances in 
the trunks of trees, 386, 437; 
cherry-stones eaten by pigeons, 
324; feeding mice with painters’ 
putty and other oily pigments, 264: 
feeding plants with the nitrogen of 
vegetable mould, 280; fertilizing 
power of roasted leather, 58; ger- 
mination of weed seeds, 289; grow- 
ing of buckwheat in sand and 
coal-ashes, 159; laboratory notes, 
409; prominence of carbonate of 
lime in solutions from dried soils, 
195; quantity of fertilizers that 
can be scattered from a man’s hand, 
261; remarks on American fodder 
rations, 137; resistance of clover 
seeds to water, 317; search for 
sugars in products of hydrolysis of 
woods, 437; systematic destruc- 
tion of woodchucks, 422; watering 
buckwheat plants with alkaline so- 
lutions of peat, 72. 
Strawberry, analyses of, 417. 
Strewing of fertilizers, by hand, 
amounts ordinarily delivered in 
this way, 261. 
Sugar, from hydrolysis of woods, 
438, 445; quantity obtained on hy- 
drolyzing cotton, 457, 465, and 
woods, 445, 446; reversion of, 441. 
Sugar baskets, ashes of, 420. 
Sugar-maple, wood of, 439-443. 
Sulphate of potash, often does better 
than chloride of potassium, 366; 
should not be used unless it be 
neutral, 367. 
Sulphuric acid, action of, on woods, 
441 et seq. 
Sumach, spent, analyses of, 27. 
TAN-BARK, spent, analyses of, 26. 
Tea-leaves, spent, analyses of, 37. 
Timber remains sound when the trees 
are felled in summer, 378. 
‘“Torches”’ for destroying wood- 
chucks, 424. 
Trap-rock, potash and_ phosphoric 
acid in, 8. 
Trees, chemical substances in the 
trunks of, 386, 437. 
Trees, may get nitrogen from the air, 
436; may increase fertility of the 
soil, 435, 436; nitrogen-bringing 
fungi on roots of, 436. 
Twigs, composition of, 47, 437. 
UNCINULA SPIRALIS injures vines, 109. 
Urocystis species, 114. 
Urtica dioica, analyses of, 118. 
VELVET-GRASS hasa straight awn, 337. 
WatTeER of springs and wells may not 
contain any carbonic acid, 214. 
Waterer, Anthony, takes charge of 
lilium parkmanni, 162. 
Wedger, B. M., his ‘‘torches” for 
destroying woodchucks, 424. 
Weeds, analyses of those used as 
human food, 115, 118, 127, 255; 
seeds of, may not germinate read- 
ily, 289. 
White-pine, average yield of, 378, 
382; chemical composition of, 414; 
collecting the seeds of, 373 ; growth 
of, 373; methods of growing and 
planting, 374; rate of growth of, 
375; value of, 377. 
White-top, see Danthonia. 
Whiting, quantities consumed by 
mice when mixed with oil, 267. 
Willows, grown on light upland soils, 
429 et seq.; how to preserve cuttings 
in the winter, 429, 486; some kinds 
of, grow best on upland soils, 435. 
_ Winterstein’s hydrolysis of cellu- 
lose, 459. 
Wood, matters lost from, on leach- 
ing it, 44. 
W ood-ashes, agglutinate soils, 344; 
ferment humus, 347; are generally 
better fertilizers than the Stass- 
furt salts, 363. 
W oodchuck, destruction of, 422, 428. 
W ood-gum, 401; from various trees, 
etc., 409, 410, 414. 
XYLAN, in peach-stones, 410; in 
starch-grains, 419; is not readily 
digestible, 396; in various woods, 
etc., 409, 410, 414, 437 et seq. 
Xylose from hydrolysis of woods, 440. 
YELLOW-DOCK, analyses of leaves of, 
255. 
