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FAEJIYAED. 



Fakmyard manure, weeds in (Buckman), 

 xvi. 377. 



, liorse-dung, analysis of, by Dr. 



Fownes, iv. 539. 



, analysis of, xiii. 482. 



Farncombe, John, on the farming of 

 Sussex, a prize report, xi. 75. See 

 " Sussex." 

 Fat is found in certain vegetable sub- 

 stances, iv. 233 ; effect of oil-cake in pro- 

 ducing ftit, 232. 



and muscle, an essay on, by W. F. 



Karkeek, prize essay, v. 24.'5 ; growth of 

 plants and animals, 246 ; comparative 

 analyses of hay, oats, beans, beef, and 

 potatoes, lb. ; elements of nutrition, 247 ; 

 elements of respiration, ib. ; proteine, 

 248 ; vegetable fibrine, ib. ; vegetable 

 albumen, ib. ; vegetable caseine, ib. ; the 

 proportions of these found in the com- 

 mon crops of the field, 249 ; the pro- 

 portion of starch, gum, and sugar, con- 

 tained in any separate article of food, 

 with regard to the fat and tallow which 

 it is capable of yielding, 249 ; the gluten, 

 albumen, and caseine, in food as an in- 

 dication of its muscle or flesh-forming 

 principle, ib. ; the process by which 

 the metamorphoses of these materials 

 is accomplished, ib. ; chyme, digestion, 

 ib. ; chyle, ib. ; the passing of the 

 blood through the lungs, 250 ; the car- 

 bon of the food, its conversion to car- 

 bonic acid, ib. ; production of heat, 251 ; 

 the varying consumption of oxygen gas, 

 t6. ; influence of temperature on the 

 consumption of food, ib. ; examples, 

 ib. ; rest with warmth as an equivalent 

 for food, 252 ; examples, rearing of 

 calves m Holland, stall-fed cows, ib. ; 

 suckling of Dorsetshire house lambs, 

 253 ; the production of fat, ib. ; the 

 cxteriuil and internal fat, 254 ; ex- 

 amples of internal fat in peculiar breeds, 

 255 ; the milking qualities of, and in- 

 side fat, ib. ; animals possessing small 

 lungs, small livers, and small spleens, 

 their disposition to fatten, ib.-. external 

 signsof earlv maturity, 259 ; the touch, 

 ib. ; smallness of bone, 260 ; the size 

 of the head, ib. ; the ears, >V». ; the 

 horns, ib. ; a thin neck, ih. ; the rearing 

 department, 261 ; acrcitblc table of nu- 

 trition, 263 ; the food of pigs, 265. 



, on the fatty matters in the natural 



and artificial grasses, by J. T. Way, 

 xiv. 173, 177, 179, 180. 



Fat hen, the (Huckman), xvi. 364. 



Fkathkr dust, analysis of (Way), xi. 

 766. 



Fedia olitoria, sc: " Lamb's lettuce.'' 



Feeding of stock, on, by Kev. W. Thorp, 



iii. 430. 

 Felspar, analysis of (Karkeek), vi. 410, 

 xiii. 530. 



rocks, analysis of, xiii. 534, 



Fences of Norfolk, v. 309. 



■ , on, by J. Grigor, a prize essay, vi. 



194; evils of the present system of, 

 195; hedges for the generality of 

 arable and pasture districts, 202 ; the 

 whitethorn, 203 ; the sloe, 215 ; the 

 crab, 215; the holly, 216; the beech, 

 221 ; the hornbeam, 222 ; the Scotch 

 pine, 223 ; the furze, 224 ; the elder, 

 225 ; the poplar, ib. ; the alder, 225 ; 

 the goat willow, 226. 



of furze (Roberts), vi. 385. 



* in Lancashire (Garnett), x. 43. 



Fens of Lincolnshire, the, report of, by 

 Arthur Young, iv. 291 ; by Mr. Stone, 

 ib. ; by Mr. Pusey, ib. 



, the claying of them, iv. 297. 



, the opposition of the fenmen to the 

 drainage of, iv. 309 ; the reasons they 

 assigned, ib. ; their dread of losing their 

 wild ducks, 309. 



of Cambridgeshire described by S. 



Jonas, vii. 62 ; their historj-, ib. ; the 

 Bedford Level, 64; claying of, 71 ; its 

 steam-engines for draining, 66. 



, on the great level of the fens, in- 

 cluding the fens of South Lincolnshire, 

 by J. A. Clarke, a prize essay, viii. 80; 

 their early history, 81 ; Roman road 

 across, ib. ; the first efforts to drain 

 them, 83 ; the Bedford Level, 83, 93 ; 

 the soil of the feus described, 90 ; deep 

 beds of peat, 91 ; the substrata, the 

 gault, 92 ; drainage works, 93 ; south 

 level, ib. ■ middle level, 97 ; Sir John 

 Rennie's report on, 103 : paring and 

 burning system of, 104; the Norfolk 

 fens, ib. ; the marsh district, 108 ; the 

 Lincolnshire fens, 114. 



, rotation of crops in, viii. 119. 



, history of the drainage of (Clarke), 



XV. 19; the Bedford Level, 25. 



Fkrns, analysis of, xiii. 528. 



Fkstlca duriuscula, see " Hard fescue- 

 grass." 



elatior, sec " Tall fescue-grass." 



coliacea, set'. " Spiked fescue-gi'ass." 



ovina, sec " Sheep's fescue." 



pratensis, ser " Meadow fescue." 



rubra, sec " Creeping fescue- 

 grass." 



Fevers in cattle (J. Dun), xv. 86. 



Fibrous covering, on, by C. K. Vacy, vii. 

 277. 



FiEi^D madder, its soils and habits (Buck- 

 man), xvi. 361. 



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