INDEX.

Absorbents, Influence on soil extracts, 38

Absorption by soils, 9, 59, 65

formula, 62

of dyes, 60, 61

rate, 63

selective, 61

Acid digestion of soils, 11, 12

Adsorption, 9, 60

Alkali, 110, 118

Effect on soils, 118

Order of deposition, 112

Reclamation, 117, 121

Source, 111, 117

Antagonism between salts, 120

Apophyllite, Crystallization from water, 35

Apple trees, Effect of grass on, 98

Appleyard, James R. See Walker, James, and Appleyard, James R.

Ash analyses, 11, 13

Association of Official Agricultural Chemists’ analyses, quoted, 12

cited, 12

“official method”, 10, 12

“Available” and “non-available” plant-food elements, 8

Averitt, S. D. See Peter, Alfred M., and Averitt, S. D.

Bacteria in soils, 103

Bailey, Liberty H., cited, 5

Balance between supply and removal of mineral plant nutrients, 75

Barium in soils, 107

Bardt, A. See Doroshevskii, A. and Bardt, A.

Becquerel, Antoine C., cited, 67

quoted, 68

Bell, James M., and Cameron, Frank K., cited, 28

Bell, James M. See also Cameron, Frank K., and Bell, J. M.;

Cameron, Frank K., Bell, J. M., and Robinson, W. O.

Benedick, Carl, cited, 55

Birner, H., and Lucanus, B., cited, 70

Bischof, Gustav, cited, 113

Black alkali, 110, 114, 119, 124

Blanck, Edward, cited, 63

Breazeale, James F., acknowledgments, 80

cited, 71

See also Cameron, Frank K., and Breazeale, J. F.;

LeClerc, J. A. and Breazeale, J. F.

Briggs, Lyman J., cited, 55

and Lapham, Macy H., cited, 41

and McLane, John W., cited, 26

Martin, F. O., and Pearce, J. R., cited, 31

Brooks, William P., cited, 5

Brown, Bailey E., cited, 46

quoted, 46, 115

Bryan, H. See Davis, R. O. E., and Bryan, H.

Buckingham, Edgar, cited, 30

Burney, W. B., quoted, 98

Cameron, Frank K., cited, 110, 114, 115

See also Bell, James M., and Cameron, Frank K.; Kearney, Thomas H.

and Cameron, Frank K.; Whitney, Milton, and Cameron, Frank K.

and Bell, James M., cited, 31, 38, 50, 113, 122

and Breazeale, James F., cited, 62

and Gallagher, Francis E., cited, 24

and Patten, Harrison E., cited, 63, 124

and Robinson, William O., cited, 27, 53

Bell, James M., and Robinson, William O., cited, 114

Calcium nitrate, basic, 108

Carbon dioxide in the soil, 53

Charpentier, Jean G. F., cited, 113

Chemical analysis of soils. See Soil analysis—Chemical.

Chesneau, G., cited, 68

Christie, W. A. K. See Holland, Sir Thomas H., and Christie, W. A. K.

Clarke, Frank Wigglesworth, cited, 76, 115

Coffey, George N., quoted, 23

Concentration of mineral constituents, 39

Concentration, Plant growth and, 70

Cracking of soil, 22

Creep, 19

Creighton, Henry J. M. See Findlay, Alexander, and Creighton, Henry J. M.

Critical moisture content, 24

Crop control methods, 7, 105

plants defined, 1

producing power and aqueous extract, 81

rotation, Natural, 97

Objects of, 4

yields increasing, 16

Crumb structure of soils, 25

Crumbing, 27, 119

Cushman, Allerton S., cited, 36

“Cut-off”, 22, 75

Cyanamid, 108

Czapek, Friedrich, Experiments on root etchings, 9

Criticism of Molisch, 101

Dachnowski, Alfred, cited, 88

Darbishire, Francis V., and Russell, Edward J., cited, 103

Darwin, Horace, cited, 22

Davis, R. O. E., quoted, 63

and Bryan, H., cited, 55

De Candolle, Augustin P., cited, 97

Degradation of rocks, 1

De Roode, Rudolph J. J., quoted, 98

Diaspore, 34

Dittrich, Max., cited, 13

Doroshevskii, A., and Bardt, A., cited, 35

Dorsey, Clarence W., cited, 110, 122

Drainage waters, Composition, 124

Drought limits defined, 29

Dunnington, Francis P., cited, 98

Dust, 20

Dyer, Bernard, cited, 40

method of soil analysis, 10

quoted, 6

Dynamic nature of soil phenomena, 18

Earthworms, 22

European soils, analyses, 16

Erosion, 20

Etchings, Root, 9

Ewart, A. J., cited, 18, 72, 73

Excreta, Toxic, 99, 100, 103

“Factors”, 11

Failyer, George H., cited, 107

See also Schreiner, Oswald, and Failyer, George H. Smith,

Joseph G., and Wade, H. R., cited, 32

Fairy rings, 98

Feldspars, 35, 38, 55

Fertilizers, 4, 83, 105

Film water, 24

tenacity, Experiments, 25

Findlay, Alexander, and Creighton, Henry J. M., cited, 53

Fine a soil, to, 4

Fischer, Emil, and Schmidmer, Edward, cited, 61

“Fly-off”, 22, 75

Frear, William, cited, 5

Free, Edward Elway, cited, 20

Friedel, Charles and Sarasin, Edmond, cited, 34

Gallagher, Francis Edward. See Cameron, Frank K. and Gallagher, Francis E.

Gannett, Henry, cited, 76

Gaudechon, H. See Muntz, A., and Gaudechon, H.

Geikie, Sir Archibald, cited, 75

Gels, 36

Gilbert, Joseph H., cited, 98

Gonnard, F., cited, 35

“Good” and “poor” soils compared, 80

Graham, Thomas, cited, 67

Granulate a soil, to, 4

Grass, Effect on apple trees, 98

Gravitational water, 23

Great Salt Lake, Reaction of water, 113

Green manure, Effect on soil extracts, 87

Gypsum on alkali soils, 119

Hardpan, 111

Harter, Leonard L. See Kearney, Thomas H., and Harter, L. L.

Hartwell, Burt L., Wheeler, H. J., and Pember, F. R., cited, 74

Haselhoff, Emil. See König, Joseph, and Haselhoff, E.

Haworth, Erasmus, cited, 113

Heileman, William H., quoted, 65

Heterogeneity of soils, 1, 21, 32, 79

Hilgard, Eugene W., cited, 5, 6, 38, 40, 119

Method of soil analysis, 10

Hillebrand, William F., cited, 13

Hills, Joseph L., cited, 5

Holland, Sir Thomas H., and Christie, W. A. K., cited, 116

Hulett, George A., cited, 68

Humic acids, 55

Humus, 61

Hutchinson, Henry B. See Russell, Edward J., and Hutchinson, Henry B.

Hydrolysis, 33

Imbibition, 59

Irrigation, 120

Johnson, Samuel W., cited, 40, 77

quoted, 2

Kahlenberg, Louis, and Lincoln, Azariah T., cited, 35

Kaolinite, 34

Kearney, Thomas H., and Cameron, Frank K., cited, 119

and Harter, Leonard L., cited, 119

Kentucky agricultural experiment station,

Method of soil analysis, 10

King, Franklin H., cited, 75, 76, 77

quoted, 46, 76

Knight, Wilbur C., and Slosson, Edwin E., cited, 114

König, Joseph, and Haselhoff, E., cited, 8

Kossovich, Petr. S., Experiments on root etchings, 9

Lagergren, Sten, cited, 26

Lake desiccation, 114

Lapham, Macy H. See Briggs, Lyman J., and Lapham, Macy H.

Lawes, John B., and Gilbert, Joseph H. See Gilbert, Joseph H.

Leather, J. Walter, cited, 23

Le Clerc, J. Arthur, and Breazeale, James F., cited, 14

Lemberg, Johann T., cited, 35

Liebig, Justus, cited, 8, 97

Liebrich, A., cited, 34

Liebreich, quoted, 68

Lieving, quoted, 68

Lincoln, Azariah T. See Kahlenberg, Louis, and Lincoln, Azariah T.

Lipman, Jacob G., cited, 72, 103

See also Voorhees, Edward B., and Lipman, Jacob G.

Lipman, C. B., cited, 120

Litmus, Absorption of, 66

as indicator, 66

Livingston, Burton E., cited, 85, 88, 97

Loughridge, Robert H., cited, 28, 119

Lucanus, B. See Birner, H., and Lucanus, B.

McGee, W. J., quoted, 22, 76

McLane, John W. See Briggs, Lyman J., and McLane, John W.

Manure, Stable, Effect on soil extracts, 84

Martin, F. Oskar. See Briggs, Lyman J., Martin, F. O., and Pearce, J. R.

Maxwell, Walter, Method of soil analysis, 10

Mechanical analysis, 31

Merrill, George P., cited, 9

Meyerhoffer, Wilhelm, cited, 111

Meyer, Victor, cited, 67

Minchin, George M., cited, 26

Mineral constituents of soil solution, 31, 37

Mineral plant nutrients, balance between supply and removal, 75

Mississippi River, Soil-carrying power, 21

Mixing of soils, 33

Moisture content, 24

Moisture movement into soil, 28

Molisch, Hans, cited, 101

Mooers, Charles A., cited, 10

Motion in soils, 19

Movement of soils, 20

Muntz, A., and Gaudechon, H., cited, 30

quoted, 24

Murray, Sir John, cited, 75

Newell, Frederick H., cited, 75

Night-soil, 108

Nitrates in agriculture, 108

in soil solution, 103

Nitrogen carriers, 103

“Official method” of soil analysis, 10

Optimum moisture content, 24

Organic compounds, Effect on plants, 82

Organic constituents of soil solution, 54, 79

Orthoclase, Alteration of, 33

Ostwald, Wo., cited, 28

Oxidizing power of roots, 101

Oxygen in the soil, 53

Oxystearic acid, Toxic to plants, 96

Patten, Harrison E., cited, 24, 25, 60

See Cameron, Frank K., and Patten, Harrison E.

and Waggaman, William H., cited, 9, 59

and Gallagher, F. E., cited, 59

Pearce, Julia R. See Briggs, Lyman J., Martin, F. O., and Pearce, J. R.

Pember, F. R. See Hartwell, Burt L., Wheeler, H. J., and Pember, F. R.

Penfield, Samuel L., cited, 13

Percolation experiments, 47

Peter, Alfred, cited, 54

and Averitt, S. D., cited, 10

Pfeffer, Wilhelm F. P., cited, 18, 72, 73, 101

Phlogiston theory, 17

Phosphates, 50

Picoline carboxylic acid, toxic to plants, 96

Plant-food theory, 16

Plant growth and concentration, 70

Plant nutrients, Supply and removal, 75

Plot experiments, 14

“Poor” and “good” soils compared, 80

Pot experiments, 14

Puddling, 25

Pyrogallol, 87

Pyrophyllite, 34

Ragweed, 97, 98

Rainfall, 22, 75

Rajputana, Salt deposits, 116

Rayleigh, Lord, cited, 26

Reed, Howard S. See Schreiner, Oswald, and Reed, Howard S.;

Schreiner, Oswald, Reed, Howard S., and Skinner, J. J.

Removal of plant nutrients, Supply and, 75

Reversible reactions, 34

Ries, Heinrich, quoted, 112

River waters, Concentration of, 76

Robinson, William O. See Cameron, Frank K., and Robinson, William O.;

Cameron, Frank K., Bell, James M., and Robinson, W. O.

Rodewald, H., cited, 24

Römer, Hermann. See Wilfarth, Hermann, Römer, Hermann, and Wimmer, G.

Root etchings, 9

Root growth mechanism, 19

Roots of growing plants, 18

Rotation of crops, 97

Rothmund, V., cited, 68

“Run-off”, 22, 75

Russell, Edward J., cited, 103

See also Darbishire, Francis V., and Russell, Edward J.

and Hutchinson, Henry B, cited, 72

Sachs, Julius, Experiments on root etchings, 9

Salt as fertilizer, Common, 108

Sarasin, Edmond. See Friedel, Charles, and Sarasin, Edmond, 34

Schmidmer, Edward. See, Fischer, Emil, and Schmidmer, Edward.

Schreiner, Oswald, quoted, 102

and Failyer, George H., cited, 41, 47

and Reed, Howard S., cited, 100, 101

and Shorey, Edmund C., cited, 95

and Sullivan, M. X., cited, 100

Reed, Howard S., and Skinner. J. J., quoted, 89

Sea water, Desiccation of, 111

Seedlings, Growth of, 74, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 100, 102

Seedlings, Toxic action of acids and salts, 62

Seidell, Atherton, quoted, 115

Shaler, Nathaniel S., cited, 20

Shorey, Edmund C., cited, 95

See also Schreiner, Oswald, and Shorey, E. C.

Shrinking of soils, 22

Skinner, J. J., quoted, 99, 102

Skinner, J. J. See also Schreiner, Oswald, Reed, Howard S., and Skinner, J. J.

Slosson, Edwin E. See Knight, Wilbur C., and Slosson, Edwin E.

Smith, Joseph G., quoted, 98

See also Failyer, George H., Smith, Joseph G., and Wade, H. R.

Sodium chloride as fertilizer, 108

Soil, the, 1

Soil amendments, 105

analysis, Chemical, 8, 22

Methods, 10

atmosphere, 23

bacteria, 23, 103

control, 4

methods, 4

erosion, 20

fatigue, 100

heaving, 22

individuality, 2

management, 2, 3, 4

minerals, Chief, 32

moisture defined, 1

not a static system, 18

phenomena, Dynamic nature of, 18

shrinking, 22

solution defined, 1

Analyses, 39

Importance of, 2

Organic constituent of, 79

Survey Field Book, cited, 3

translocation by water, 20

wind, 21

Soils, Composition of, 1

Mineral constituents of, 32

Moisture content, 24

Water extracts of, 39

Solid solution defined, 59

Solubility of minerals, 52, 55

Spring, Walthère, cited, 67

Structure, 27

Subsoils, Infertility of, 88

Sullivan, Michael X., cited, 102

quoted, 68

See also Schreiner, Oswald, and Sullivan, M. X.

Supply and removal of plant nutrients, 75

Surface effects, 67

Surface tension, 27

Swan tract, Utah, 123

Swingle, Walter T., cited, 119

Taylor, Frederick W., cited, 5

Tennessee agricultural experiment station,

Methods of soil analysis, 10

Thorne, Charles E., cited, 5

Tillage methods, 4

Objects of, 4

Tollens, Bernhard C. G., cited, 14

Toxic excreta of roots, 99, 100, 103

Udden, Johan August, quoted, 21

U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils.

See Soil Survey Field Book.

U. S. Geological Survey, cited, 13

Underdrainage, 121

Utah Lake water analyses, 115

Van Hise, Charles R., cited, 35, 36

van’t Hoff, Jakob H., cited, 67, 111

Voorhees, Edward B., and Lipman, Jacob G., cited, 72, 103

Wade, Harold R. See Failyer, George H., Smith, Joseph G., and Wade, H. R.

Waggaman, William H. See Patten, Harrison E., and Waggaman, William H.

Walker, James, and Appleyard, James R., cited, 60

Washington, Henry S., cited, 13

Water, Movement into soils, 28

vapor, Movement in soils, 29

Way, John T., cited, 9

Weeds, Analyses of, 98

Weinschenk, E., cited, 35

Wheeler, Homer J., cited, 74

Wheeler, Homer J. See also Hartwell, Burt L., Wheeler, H. J., and Pember, F. R.

White alkali, 110, 111

Whitney, Milton, cited, 16

and Cameron, Frank K., cited, 26, 42

Wilfarth, Hermann, Römer, Hermann, and Wimmer, G., cited, 14

Willard, Julius T., cited, 5

Wimmer, G. See Wilfarth, Hermann, Römer, Hermann, and Wimmer, G.

Wind, 20

Carrying power of, 21

Wind-borne soil material, 21, 33

Wöhler, Friedrich, cited, 35

Wolff, Emil T. von, tables, cited, 77

Woburn, Experiments at, 98

Young, Thomas, cited, 26

Zeolites, 9, 34, 35

Scientific Books

Published by THE CHEMICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY

EASTON, PA.

BENEDICT—Elementary Organic Analysis.

Small 8vo. Pages VI + 82. 15 Illustrations $1.00

BERGEY—Handbook of Practical Hygiene.

Small 8vo. Pages 164 $1.50

BERGEY—Handbook of Practical Hygiene.

Small 8vo. Pages 164 $1.50

BILTZ—The Practical Methods of Determining

Molecular Weights. (Translated by Jones).

Small 8vo. Pages VIII + 245. 44 Illustrations $2.00

BOLTON—History of the Thermometer.

12mo. Pages 96. 6 Illustrations $1.00

COLBY—Reinforced Concrete in Europe.

8vo. Pages X + 260 $3.50

EMERY—Elementary Chemistry.

12mo. Pages XIV + 666. 191 Illustrations $1.50

ENGELHARDT—The Electrolysis of Water.

8vo. Pages X + 140. 90 Illustrations $1.25

GILMAN—A Laboratory Outline for Determinations

in Quantitative Chemical Analysis. Pages 88 $0.90

GUILD—The Mineralogy of Arizona.

Small 12mo. Pages 104. Illustrated $1.00

HANTZSCH—Elements of Stereochemistry.

(Translated by Wolf).

12mo. Pages VIII + 206. 26 Figures $1.50

HARDY—Infinitesimals and Limits.

Small 12mo. Paper. Pages 22. 6 Figures $0.20

HART—Chemistry for Beginners.

Small 12mo. Vol. I. Inorganic.

Pages VIII + 214. 55 Illustrations, 2 Plates $1.00

HART—Chemistry for Beginners.

Small 12mo. Vol. II. Pages IV + 98. 11 Illustrations $0.50

HART—Chemistry for Beginners.

Small 12mo. Vol. III. Experiments. Separately. Pages 60 $0.25

HART—Second Year Chemistry.

Small 12mo. Pages 165. 31 Illustrations $1.25

HART, R. N.—Welding.

8vo. Pages XVI + 182. 93 Illustrations $2.50

HEESS—Practical Methods for the Iron and Steel Works Chemist.

Pages 60 $1.00

HINDS—Qualitative Chemical Analysis.

8vo. Pages VIII + 266 $2.00

HOWE—Inorganic Chemistry for Schools and Colleges.

8vo. Pages VIII + 422 $3.00

LANDOLT—The Optical Rotating Power of Organic

Substances and Its Practical Applications.

8vo. Pages XXI + 751. 83 Illustrations $7.50

LEAVENWORTH—Inorganic Qualitative Chemical Analysis.

8vo. Pages VI + 153 $1.50

LE BLANC—The Production of Chromium and Its Compounds

by the Aid of the Electric Current.

8vo. Pages 122 $1.25

MASON—Notes on Qualitative Analysis.

Small 12mo. Pages 56 $0.80

MEADE—Portland Cement. 2nd Edition.

8vo. Pages VIII + 385. 100 Illustrations $3.50

MEADE—Chemists’ Pocket Manual.

12mo. Pages XII + 444. 39 Illustrations $3.00

MOISSAN—The Electric Furnace.

8vo. Pages 10 + 305. 41 Illustrations $2.50

NIKAIDO—Beet-Sugar Making and Its Chemical Control.

8vo. Pages XII + 354. 65 Illustrations $3.00

NISSENSON—The Arrangement of Electrolytic Laboratories.

8vo. Pages 81. 52 Illustrations $1.25

NOYES—Organic Chemistry for the Laboratory. 2d Edition,

revised and enlarged. 8vo. Pages XII + 292. 41 Illustrations $2.00

NOYES AND MULLIKEN—Laboratory Experiments on Class

Reactions and Identification of Organic Substances.

8vo. Pages 81 $0.50

PARSONS—The Chemistry and Literature of Beryllium.

8vo. Pages VI + 180 $2.00

PFANHAUSER—Production of Metallic Objects Electrolytically.

3vo. Pages 162. 100 Illustrations $1.25

PHILLIPS—Methods for the Analysis of Ores, Pig Iron

and Steel. 2nd Edition.

8vo. Pages VIII + 170. 3 Illustrations $1.00

SEGER—Collected Writings of Herman August Seger.

Papers on Manufacture of Pottery. 2 Vols. Large 8vo.

$7.50 a vol. or $15.00 a set

STILLMAN—Engineering Chemistry. 4th Edition.

8vo. Pages X + 744. 174 Illustrations $5.00

TOWER—The Conductivity of Liquids.

8vo. Pages 82. 20 Illustrations $1.50

VENABLE—The Development of the Periodic Law.

Small 12mo. Pages VIII + 321. Illustrated $2.50

VENABLE—The Study of the Atom.

12mo. Pages VI + 290 $2.00

VULTE AND GOODELL—Household Chemistry. 2nd Edition.

12mo. Pages VI + 190 $1.25

WILEY—Principles and Practice of Agricultural Chemical Analysis.

Vol. I. Soils. Pages XII + 636. 55 Illustrations. 17 Plates $4.00

WILEY—Principles and Practice of Agricultural Chemical Analysis.

Vol. II. Fertilizers and Insecticides.

Pages 684. 40 Illustrations. 7 Plates $4.50

WYSOR—Metallurgy, a Condensed Treatise for the use of College

Students and Any Desiring a General Knowledge of the Subject.

Pages 308. 88 Illustrations $3.00

Footnotes: