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INDEX TO EOYAL AGRICULTUEAL JOURNAL. 



FILBERT. 



Filbert, the, analysis of the wood, bark, 

 and leaves of, xiii. 530. 



FiLTCES, s('e "Ferns." 



Finger and toe in turnips, described by 

 J. Curtis, iv. 121. 



in root-crops, by James Buckman, 



XV. 125 ; experiments with the wild 

 roots of the parsnip and carrot, ib. ; a 

 clear unbranched tap-root is not natural 

 to the parsnip or the carrot, 131 ; finger 

 and toe will always be found in a field 

 of either carrots or parsnips, 132 ; will 

 prevail where the seed is brought from 

 a rich to a poor soil, ib. ; or has been 

 ripened in the same district, ib. ; or 

 where the seed-roots are not selected, 

 133 ; or where the original species is a 

 wild native, ib. ; but there are diiferent 

 degrees of liability to degeneracy, 134 ; 

 this disease the midway from wildness 

 to cultivation, 135. 



veiy common on the greensand for- 

 mation of Oxfordshire (Head), xv. 195. 



Finlayson's harrow, J. Morton on, with 

 a sketch, iii. 120. 



Fir, the, analysis of the wood, bark, and 

 leaves of, xiii. 530. 



, analysis of a soil where the firs 



were dying, xiii. 554. 



Fire-clay analysed, xiii. 53(5. 



Firestone rock, of the chalk formation, 

 analysed by J. T. Way, xii. 549. 



Fish as manure. Dr. Fownes on, iv, 542. 



, sprats, analysis of (Way), x. 610, 



xiii. 498. 



, on the refuse of the cod fishery of 



Newfoundland, as convertible into a 

 portable manure, by K. B. Hamilton, 

 xiv. 393 ; analysis of such a manure, 

 394. 



, dried codfish, analysis of (Lawes), 



xiv. 498. 



, on the teeth of, by J. B. Simonds, 



XV. 278. 



Fisher, Eev. E. W., on the Dyock oat, 

 iii. 387. 



Fisher, E., on the bathing of lambs, as a 

 cure for the scour, v. 279. 



Fits in sheep (Dun), xvi. 26. 



Flack, W., on Hertfordshire draining, 

 iv. 33. 



Flannels, the manufactories of, J.Wilson 

 on, xvi, 244. 



Flax dressed with pigeons' dung in 

 Flanders (Sprengel), ii. 312. 



, its cultivation in the Netherlands 



described (Eham), iii. 254. 



, on the cultivation of, by G. Nicholls, 



v. 547. 



-, on the cultivation of, by J. Mac- 

 Adam, a prize essay, viii. 361 ; ana- 



lysis of soils adapted to the growth of, 

 369 ; choice of seed, 370 ; the quan- 

 tity of seed, 372 ; rippling of, 375 ; 

 steeping of, 377 : scutching of, 382 ; 

 the storing of, 387 ; analysis of steep- 

 water, 389, xiii. 506 ; oil-cake and oil 

 produced from the flax-seed, viii. 392 ; 

 expense of growing flax, 394. 



Flax, on the cultivation of, by G. Nicholls, 

 viii. 438 ; cultivation of, 446 ; prepar- 

 ation of the fibre, 452 ; preservation 

 and use of the seed, 463. 



, analysis of, by J. T. Way and G. 



Ogston, xi. 517. 



, analysis of the stem, seed, and fibre, 



xiii. 474. 



, analysis of rich Irish and Dutch 



flax-soils, xiii. 552. 



, its treatment, agricultural and 



technical, by John Wilson, xiv. 187 ; 

 native soil, ib. ; the different members 

 of its order — some weeds, ib. ; history 

 of its cultivation, 183 ; analysis of, 191 ; 

 sorts adapted for its ordinary produce 

 of straw and seed, 193 ; section of straw 

 and fibres, 194; Lee's patent, 195; 

 Hill and Bundy's, ib. ; steeping, 196 ; 

 warm-water steeps, 197 ; the German 

 " Molkenrost," or steeping in sour 

 whey, 199; M. Claussen's alkaline so- 

 lution, 199 ; cottonizing of flax, ib. ; 

 steaming, 201 ; steep liquor, analysis 

 of, 203 ; steeping flax in its green state, 

 207; imports of,208; manufactures of, ib. 



, growth of, in Oxfordshire (Eead), 



XV. 216. 



, growth of, in Dorsetshire (Euegg), 



XV. 421. 



Flax-cotton, Claussen's, E, Macdermott 

 on, xii. 235, xiv. 199. 



Flax-dodder, C. C. Babington on, ii. 63. 



Flax-mill shown at Lincoln (1S54\ xv. 

 374. 



Flax-purging {Liman catharticum), its 

 effect on cattle when it abounds in their 

 pastures (Playfair), iv. 251. 



Fleas of animals differ in species (Hens- 

 law), ii. 3. 



in hops (Eutley), ix. 564. 



Flesh of the ox, analysis of, iv. 216, xi. 

 389. See " Food of live stock." 



and blood of the ox 'analysed (Play- 

 fair), xii. 584. 



, amount of meat annually consumed 



by an adult, xii. 585. 



, the flesh-forming principles in the 



natural and artificial gi-asses, by J. T. 

 Way, xiv. 176, 179, 180. ' " 



Floating foxtail-grass (Buckman), xv. 

 465. 



meadow-grass (Buckman), xv. 465. 



