INDEX TO EOYAL AGKICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



rature, 435 ; -wind, ih. ; rain, il. 436 ; 

 breaking up of the downs, 437 ; 

 the different qualities of the chalk, 

 438 ; enclosure of wastes, 439 ; extent 

 of, 440; cottages, 441; plans of, 442; 

 breaking up of pastures, 447 ; Cran- 

 borne Chace, 448 ; the extinction of 

 the deer, ib. ; butter, improvements in 

 tlie make of, 450. 



Dove, the valley of, its alluvium soils 

 analysed (Derbyshire), xiv. 58. 



DowNE, Viscount, on the uselessness of 

 bearing-reins, xv. 73. 



Downing, , his plan of growing root 



crops, viii. 276. 



Down land, on the advantages of plough- 

 ing up (T. Walkden), iv. 80. 



of Salisbury Plain, iv. 80. 



near Marlborough, iv. 81. 



, on the breaking up of, a prize essay, 



by J. Braveudar, vii. 163. 



on the breaking up of, in Dorset- 

 shire (lluegg), XV. 437. 



sheep {sec " Sheep "), experiments on 



the comparative feeding qualities of the 

 Hampshire and Sussex Down sheep, 

 by J. B. Lawes, xii. 414, xvi. 73. 



sheep, J. Wilson on, xvi. 233 ; wool 



of, 241. 



Downy oat-grass, analysis of (Way), xiv. 

 177. 



, its growth in different situations 



(Buckman), xv. 468. 



Drag for carts described, vii. 230. 



Drainage implements, J. Morton, jun., 

 on, iii. 100. 



of land, on, by J. F. Burke, ii. 273. 



, reports of results obtained in 



thorough-draining and subsoil-plough- 

 ing in 1840 and 1841, by R. White, 

 ii. 346. 



, belonging to Sir R. Peel at Drayton, 



account of, by Sir R. Peel, iii. 18. 



, by H. Brown, iii. 165. 



, by P. Pusey, iv. 23. 



, its antiquity in the East of England, 



iv. 24. 



■ , Rev. C.Hill on Suffolk draining, iv. 



24. 



, materials used in Suffolk, iv. 26. 



, plans of Suffolk trench-drains, iv. 



28. 



, expense of, iv. 30. 



, S. Jonas on Suffolk draining, iv. 32. 



, on Hertfordshire draining, by W. 



Flack, iv. 33. 



, long practised in Hertfordshire, iv. 



34. 



, Essex drainage, by R. Baker, iv. 35. 



— — , Essex draining, by M. Nockolds, 

 iv. 38. 



DRAINAGE. 



Drainage, Essex draining, by Oxley 

 Parker, iv. 39. 



, Norfolk draining, on, by H. Evans, 



iv. 43. 



, remarks on, by P. Pusey, iv. 45; 



expenses of, 46 ; cost of thorough- 

 draining one acre, 48. 



, sanitary effects of, by E. Chadwick, 



iv. 151. 



, report to Hon. R. Clive on his drain- 

 ing and subsoil-ploughing, by R. White, 

 iv. 172. 



, on, by T. Arkell, prize essay, iv. 



318 ; the depth and frequency of 

 drains, 323 ; the materials used, tiles, 

 stone, clay, 324 ; on filling drains, 

 330 ; the direction of drains, 333 ; 

 the fall required, 334 ; benefits derived 

 from draining heavy land, ib. ; im- 

 proved climate from, 335 ; the du- 

 rability of drains, 338 ; the past 

 and present practice of draining, ih. ; 

 districts in England which require 

 (1842) the most extensive efforts in 

 draining, ib. 



— — , on the proper materials for filling 

 up drains, and the mode in which water 

 enters them, by R. Beart, iv. 411 ; his 

 experience in draining cold clay-land, 

 ib. ; the geological character of the clay 

 soils of Huntingdonshire, ib. ; the depth 

 and frequency of the drains, 412; use 

 of worms as drainers of land, ib. ; the 

 way in which the Avater enters the 

 drain, 413 ; advantages of deep drains, 

 414 ; under drains, open drains, ih. ; 

 plan of the drainage of a field, 415; 

 the fall required and the necessity of 

 levelling high-ridged lands, 418 ; the 

 best time for levelling and draining 

 land, 419 ; on the fall in drains, */*. ; in 

 large rivers, ib. ; best materials in 

 Huntingdonshire for under-draining, 

 420 ; filling in, whether with tenacious 

 or porous earth, 421 ; block draining, 

 422 ; effect of water holding clay in 

 suspension, 425. 



, the practical mode of*draining clay- 

 laud lying wet from surface water, the 

 laying out of the ground for tlie mains 

 and small drains, with the cost of drain- 

 ing with tiles, wood, peat, turf, or. 

 wedge and block draining, iv. 425 ; 

 summary of the expense of these modes 

 of draining, 430. 



■ , state of, in Cheshire, W. Palin, v. 



77. 



, on the influence of water on -the 



temperature of soils, on the quantity of 

 rain-water, and its discbarge by drains, 

 by Josiah Parkes, v. 119; physical 



