INDEX TO KOYAL AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



BLOOD, 



ox-flesh, ib. ; annual consumption of 

 meat by an adult person, 585. 



Blood of a healthy and of a glanderous 

 horse analysed (F. Dun), xiv. 129. 



Blyth, Mr., of Burnham, Norfolk, ex- 

 periments by, on drilling wheat at 

 different distances, v. 355. 



Bobbin- JOAN, a disease in potatoes, on, by 

 Sir C. Lemon, iv. 431. 



Bog, an account of an improvement of 

 a shaking bog at Meai-e in Cheshire, 

 by E. Galton, vi. 182. 



Bog-earth, the farming of the light 

 soils of, in Ireland (Haxton), xv. 95. 



Bog iron-ore, analysis of a specimen of, 

 from Islay, xiii. 554. 



BoNE-mills, those shown at Lincoln meet- 

 ing (1854), XV. 373. 



, those shown at Carlisle (1855), xvi. 



519. 



Bones, application of, to grass-land, in 

 Cheshire, by E. Billyse, ii. 91 ; grass- 

 . soil best adapted for bones, ib. • when 

 tenants allowed to put on bones, ib. • 

 time of application, ih. ; weight of a 

 bushel of bone-dust, ib. ; size preferred, 

 86. ; boiled and green bones equally effi- 

 cacious, 92. 



— — for turnips, by R. A. Christopher, 

 267. 



, compared with Poittevin's manure, 



by J. Higgins, 269. 



, by H. C. Compton, ib. 



, trials on turnips with, by J. Everett, 



270 ; on different manures as a substi- 

 tute for, by J. Marshall, iii. 164. 



, on the solution of, in sulphuric 



acid, for the purposes of manure, by the 

 Duke of Richmond, iv. 408. 



• , note on the above paper, by P. 



Pusey, ib. ; nature of bones, ib. ; boiled 

 bones as good manure as unboiled, 408 ; 

 calcined bones, ib. 



, Dr. Fownes on, iv. 542. 



used for turnips in Nottinghamshire 



before 1794, vi. 17. 



, an experimental inquiry into the 



theory of the action and the practical 

 application of, as a manure for turnips, 

 a prize essay, by J. Hannam, vi. 49 ; 

 the inorganic portion the most valuable, 

 53, 61 ; trials with, fresh, boiled, finely 

 pulverized, rough, and dissolved in sul- 

 phuric acid, 59. 



and sulphuric acid, by W. C. 



Spooner, vi. 71. 



as a manure for beetroot, by P. 



Pusey, vi. 529. 



— — , on a new method of preparing for 

 manure, by P. Pusey, viii. 17 (ferment- 

 ing). 



BRAVENDAR. 



Bones, on the putrefaction of, by P. Pu- 

 sey, ix. 530. 



, on, by J. T. Way, x. 217. 



for pastures, by P. Pusey, xi. 409. 



, analysis of fossil bones (Herepath), 



xii. 100. 



eaten by " crovek'd " cows in Cum- 

 berland (Dickenson), xiii. 259. 



, analysis of fresh, xiii. 490 ; when' 



mixed with sulphuric acid, burnt and 

 unburnt, ib. 



useless on the silica strata soils of 



the lower chalk (Paine), xiv. 236. 



used for grass-land with salt, by 



R. Milward, xiv. 430. 



• • used in Oxfordshire (Read), xv. 242. 



, trials with, simple and dissolved-, 



for swedes, by Dr. A. Voelcker, xvi. 

 95. 



Book-keeping, J. Morton's scientific^, 

 iii. 145. 



BoTRYTis of the vetch, the Rev. E. Sid- 

 ney on, X. 392. 



of the potato, 394. 



of the turnip, ib. 



of the mangel-wurzel, ib. 



Bourne, Kemp, experiments with various 

 manures for the turnip crop, xvi. 88. 



Bournes, the winter, or intermitting, of 

 Dorsetshire (Ruegg), xv. 416. 



• of Oxfordshire (Read), xv. 193. 



Boussingault, M.,on increasing the fer- 

 tility of the soil by substances contain- 

 ing nitrogen, ii. 309. 



, on the Jerusalem artichoke, vi. 578, 



BowDiTCH, Rev. W. R., on the chemical 

 changes in the fermentation of dung,. 

 a prize essay, xvi. 323. 



BowLY, E., on one-horse carts, a prize 

 essay, vi. 156. 



Box-FEEDiNG, On, with linseed com- 

 pounds, by G. Nicholls, viii. 473. 



, by Mr. Warnes, described, viii. 474. 



, on the construction of boxes, xi. 



202, 243, 274. 



, manure made by, analysed (Way),. 



xi. 768, xiii. 482. 



Boys, H., on the Kentish corn-scythe and 

 binding rake, i. 444. 



Brachypodium pinnatum, see " Broom- 

 grass, the heath false." 



sylvaticum, see " Broom-grass, the: 



slender false." 



Brake, the, or braken, its soils and 

 habits (Buckman), xvi. 366. 



Bramble, the, its soils and habits (Buck- 

 man), xvi. 360. 



Bramston, T. W., on the narrow and 

 wide drilling of wheat, i. 294. 



Bravendar, J., on the indications which- 

 are practical guides in judging of the 



