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xiv. 106 ; bonespavin, 114; curb, 115; 

 strain of back tendons, ib. ; navicular 

 diseases, 116; chronic cough, roaring, 

 117; ophthalmia, 118; diarrhoea and 

 colic, 121; grease, 122; rheumatism, 

 122 ; scrofulous diathesis, 124 ; rickets, 

 125; hydrocephalus, 126; tabes uie- 

 senterica, 126; glanders and farcy, 

 128. 



Diseases, on the hereditary diseases of 

 cattle, by Finlay Dun, a prize essay, xv. 

 76; diarrhoea, 77; rheumatic diathesis, 

 ih. ; bustion foul, 79 ; scrofulous diathe- 

 sis, ib. ; consumption, ib. ; malignant tu- 

 mours, 83 ; warts, or angle-berries, or 

 clyers, i6. ; cancerous and schirrous 

 tumours, 84 ; fevers, 8'i ; the desirable 

 characters which cattle should possess, 

 ih. 



, on the parturient fever of ewes, a 



prize essay, by J. Seaman, xv. 383. 



, on lameness in sheep and lambs, a 



prize essay, by J. Seaman, xvi. 1 ; dis- 

 eases of the foot, 4 ; foot-rot or gi~avel, 

 ib. ; epirootic foot-rot or murrain, 5 ; 

 contagious, ib. ; inflammation of the in- 

 terdigital canal, 8 ; subcutaneous abscess 

 or whitlow, ib.; canker, 9; inflamma- 

 tion and ulceration of the coffin and 

 coronary joints, 10 ; diseases of the leg, 

 11; rheumatism or joint-disease, ib.; 

 sanguineous congestion or setfast, 13; 

 charlion, black-quarter, or quarter-ill, 

 14 ; strains, 15 ; fractures, ib. 



, on the hereditary diseases of sheep 



and pigs, by F. Dun, xvi. 16 ; the otter- 

 shaped sheep of Massachussets, 17 ; 

 peculiar breed of pigs, 18; resem- 

 blance of offspring to parents, 21, 

 43 ; for breeding purposes animals 

 subject to certain diseases, ib. 



• , hereditary diseases of sheep, 24 ; 



of the brain and nervous system, 25 ; 

 epilepsy or fits, 26 ; diseases of the re- 

 spiratory organs, 28 ; diseases of the 

 digestive organs, 28 ; diarrhoea and 

 dysentery, ib.\ rheumatism 3i); scro- 

 fula, 31 ; hydrocephalus or water-in- 

 thehead, 33 ; tabes mesenterica, 33 ; 

 phthisis pulmonalis, 34. 



, hereditary diseases and defects of 



pigs, 37; the ill effect of breeding in 

 and in, 38 ; epilepsy, 39 ; lung dis- 

 eases, ih. ; rheuinatisiu, 40 ; scrofula, 

 «6. ; scrofulous and cancerous tumours, 

 41 ; the mule, 43 ; various hybrids, 

 44. 



DiSKASEs of gras8cfi(I3uckman\ xv, 474; 

 the smut, i'\ ; fungi, ib.; fairy-rings, 

 474-476 ; ergot of rye, 477. 



Di8£ASi^:s of root crops, on the finger and 



DORSETSHIRE. 



toe in, by J. Buckman, xv. 125. See 

 " Finger and toe." 



Diseases of wheat, Professor Henslow 

 on, ii. 1 ; remarks on parasitic fungi 

 in, 2. . 



Distillers' refuse, analysis of, xiii. 522. 



Ditching by task-work, how paid, by 

 H. Rayubird, vii. 131 ; cost of, 520. 



Dixon, James, prize essay on making^ 

 compost-heaps from liquids and other 

 substances, i. 135. 



DoBiTO, G., on fattening cattle, a prize 

 essay, vi. 74. 



Dock, the curled (Buckman), xvi. 364. 



, the round-leaved, xvi. 364. 



, the round-leaved meadow, xvi. 364, 



, the water, xvi. 366. 



Dodder, the flax, a parasitical plant 

 (Babington), ii. 63 ; its habits (Buck- 

 man), xvi. 364, 



or " Devil' s-guts " (Buckman) xvi, 



364. 



Dogs, the shepherd's of Cumberland,, 

 xiii. 266-269. 



Dorset sheep, the, on, by J. Wilson, xvi. 

 230 ; L. H. Kuegg on, xv. 430. 



Dorsetshire, the chalk soils of described, 

 by Stevenson, xii. 485. 



, butter-making in, by L. H. Ruegg, 



xiv. 68. 



, the farming of, a prize report, by- 

 Louis H. Ruegg, XV. 389 ; geology of, 

 ib. ; the Portland stone, 390 ; the Pur- 

 beck marble, ib. ; its potter's-clays, 

 shale, and fossil remains, ib. ; cLy-pits 

 of Purbeck, 394 ; fossil trees, ib. ; the 

 shale, ib. ; analysis of, 395 ; the occa- 

 sional difference of soils, and the rocks 

 on which they rest, 397; the chalk 

 formation, 398; its farming, 399 ; ro- 

 tations of, 400; tiie superiority of tiie 

 giant sainfoin, 407 ; plan of improved 

 farm-buildings, 409 ; the liev. A. 

 Iiuxtal)le's farms at Sutton Waldron, 

 410; the growth of turnips, 413; of 

 sainfoin, ib. ; the woods,4 14 ; the water- 

 meadows, i'6. ; the intermitting bournes, 

 416; the clays, 417; the Vale of 

 Blackmore, ib.; rotations of, ib.; 

 cattle - feeding, 418; the Vale of 

 Marshwood, 420 ; fineness of the 

 tiuiber-trees, i6. ; flax. 421 ; the heath 

 district, 422-453 ; the dairy system, 

 423 ; average produce of corn, 424 ; 

 furze on old pastures indicates profit- 

 able barley and turnip land, ih. ; elm- 

 trees good dairy-land, ib. ; draining, 

 425 ; injuries from lnooks and rivers, 

 427 ; sheep, 430 ; the Dorset liorus, ih. ; 

 the I'ortland mutton, 431 ; wool, 432; 

 manures, 433 ; climate, 434 ; tenipe- 



