I>fDEX. 



Farmers, Spring resorts of prudent, 382 

 Feathered Tribes ; Are they beneficial to the 



Farmer, or otherwise? 267 

 Flax, Deficiency in supply of, 221 

 Flour Trade of Metropolis, 331 

 Food for Cattle and Sheep, 359 

 Food, new, and new Domestic Animals, 320 

 Food, Strength of, 2G6 

 Forage in France, Scarcity of, 37 

 France, the Corn Laws of, 29-4 

 Frost Conductors, 49S 



G, 



Game Laws and the Farmers, 24(3 



Gardening Calendar of, 179, 272, 367, 454, 546 



Grain, New method of Planting, 118 



Grain, the selling of, by Measure or ^yeight, 212 



Grazing of Cattle in Summer, 525 



Guano, the trade in, 312 



IL 



Hard Times, and how to meet them, 335 

 Hedgerows, Timber and Game, 136 

 Herds of Great Britain, the, 188, 281, 372, 465 

 Hereford Bull, " Claret," description of, 279 

 Highland Society's Show at Aberdeen ; Leading 



features of the Implement Department at, 49 

 Hop Market, 94, 186, 278, 370, 462, 554 

 Horse Taming, 217 

 Horses of the Cape, 337 

 Horses, Principles of Breeding Stock, especially, 



407 

 Horses, Riding, the supply and demand for, 307 

 Hull, Trade of the Port of, 166 

 Hunters, the Breeding of, 309 



India, Agriculture of, 120 

 Ireland, Advance of Agriculture in, 438 

 Ireland and Irish Agriculture, 314, 480 

 Ireland, the Agricultural Statistics of, 323 

 Irish Short-horns, 416 



January Fever, the, 127 



L. 

 Labour, Free, in 1859, 200 

 Labourers' Cottages, on, 222 

 Lambing Season, the, 249 

 Land, How to make meat on Poor Giass, S7 

 Land, the Tenure of, Important Judgment, 79 

 Legislative Obstruction to Agricultural Progress, 



517 

 Linseed and Oil Cake Trade, Annual Report of 



the, 164 

 Liquid Manure, the Composition of. By Cuthbert 



W. Johnson, 286 



M. 



Malt Liquor, its Use in Harvest work, 516 

 Mangel Wurzel, 413 



Mangel AYurzel, Importance of proper and per- 

 manent Culture of, 500 

 !Mangel and Swedes, 501 



Manure and Oil Cake Trades, Review of the, 172 

 Manures on Plants, the effect of certain, 193 



Manures, Premiums for the be&t, in the Hibalstowe 

 Turnip Experiment, 102 



Manures, Price of, 278, 370, 462, 554 



Meat and Milk. By Cuthbert W. Johnson, 468 



Metropolitan Great Christmas Market, 65 



Mixed Feed, 330 



N. 



Nitrogen, its influence on Crops, 338 



North American Continent, Natural and Com- 

 mercial features of the, 419, 528 



O. 



Orchard, the Growth and Management of an. By 



Professor Tanner, 226 

 Owls, Spare them and save your Wheat, 218 



Phosphate of Lime, the different kinds of, 215 



Plantations, General Management of, 35 



Plants, on the influence which their individual 

 constitution exerts upon the Soil. By Professor 

 William K. Sullivan, 28 



Plants, the Food of. 111 



Ploughing Experiments, (The Gold Medal Pre- 

 mium.) By John Lennie, 207 



Ploughing Matches, Suggestions for the future 

 conduct of, 472 



Ploughing, Ploughs, and Ploughmen, II6 



Ploughs, Wheel r. Swing, 241 



Poetry :— Fanny's Barn-yard Song, 250 

 The Farmer, 139 



Potato Market, 94, 186, 278, 370, 462, 554 



Potatoes, Digging, 17 



Potatoes, Experiments with, 39 



Pots and Pearls, 497 



Pound Breach, Judgment in a case of, 82 



Pupil System, the, 403, 518 



R. 

 Rent in case of Fire, Liability of Farmers for, 266 

 Review — Revue Agricole de I'Angleterre, 448 

 Roots, the Pulping of, 129 

 Roses, How to Plant, 22 

 Royal Agricultural Society's Journal, 252 

 Royal Agricultural Society of England, Proceed- 

 ings of the, 73, 198, 358, 436, 542 



Seeds, Useful suggestions on the Growth of, 437 



Seeds, Price of, 186, 278, 370, 554 



Seed Steeps. By Cuthbert W. Johnson, 96 



Sewage Question, the relation of Town and 

 Country, 491 



Sheep Feeding for Manure, 202 



Sheep Feeding, Notes on. By C. W. Hamilton, 

 98 



Sheep Feeding, the most Economical, 134 



Sheep, on " Sturdy'' in, 163 



Sheep, the Cross-breeding of, I 



Short-horned Bull, " Fifth Duke of Oxfoid," 

 description of, 371 



Short-horned Heifer, " Queen of Trumps," descrip- 

 tion of, 463 



Short-horned Prize Cow, "Moss Rose" and 

 " Young Moss Rose," description of, 1 



