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INDEX TO ROYAL AGEICULTtJEAL JOURNAL. 



Insects, the, wliich affect the beet-crop, 

 described by J. Curtis, viii. 399. 



— — , which affect carrots and parsnips, 

 by J. Curtis, ix. 174. 



. , on t^ose which affect the potato- 

 crops, by J. Curtis, x. 70. 



Insects affecting wheat ; the Wheat-midge. 

 — Professor J. S. Henslow on, iii. 36 ; 

 their larvae or maggots, 37 ; are de- 

 stroyed by an ichneumon, ib. ; the ex- 

 tent of their ravages on the wheat, 38 ; 

 number of larvae obtained from one 

 bushel of wheat chaff-dust, 38. 



, on the wheat-midge, by R. Baker, 



vii. 293. 



Insects affecting the corn-crops : obser- 

 vations on the natural history and 

 economy of various insects affecting 

 the corn crops, many of them im- 

 properly called wireworms, includ- 

 ing ground beetles, chaffers or May- 

 bugs, also the caterpillars of a moth 

 and saw-fly, and the larvae of some 

 minute flies, by J. Curtis, v. 469. 



— — , on a saw-fly, the Hessian fly, the 

 wheat-midge, and the barley-midge, 

 by J. Curtis, vi. 131 ; the Ameri- 

 can wheat-midge, 137; the British 

 wheat-midge, 139 ; the barley -midge, 

 151. 



, the same continued, including the 



wheat - midge, thrips, wheat - louse, 

 wheat-bug, and the vibrio, vi. 493. 



, on the insects affecting peas and 



beans, including weevils, maggots, 

 beetles, &c., by J. Curtis, vii. 404. 



Inundations of the sea in Lincolnshire 

 (Clarke), xii. 312. 



Ireland, past and present (1843) state 

 of agriculture in, by William Blacker, 

 iv. 437 ; at the time of Arthur 

 Young, 438 ; the cultivation of small 

 farms on the estates of Lord Gos- 

 ford and Colonel Close in Armagh, 

 441 ; Irish landlords, 446 ; Lord Clan- 

 carty's efforts, 447; the Flax Improve- 

 ment Society, 451. 



, Irish cows, the milk from, com 



pared with that from the Ayrshire (F 

 Burke), i. 442. 



, the imports of Irish butter, xiv. 77 



defects of, ih. 



, acreage of (Hoskyns), xvi. 571 



statistical map of, 602. 



Iron slag, analysis of, xiii. 498. 



Irrigation in Cheshire (Palin), v. 98. 



. mode of procuring water for, in 



Affghanistan, v. 287. 



, on the conversion of a hilly moor- 

 side into catch-meadow, by J. Roals, 

 vi. 518. 



Irrigation, on the Audley End water- 

 meadows, by Lord Braybrooke, vi. 522. 



first introduced into England at 



Babraham (Jonas), vii. 59. 



in North Wales (Eowlandson), vii. 



579. 



in Lancashire fGarnett), x. 42. 



• , P. Pusey on, xi. 411. 



in Switzerland, on, by H. T. Jen- 



kinson, xi. 607. 



, on the formation of hillside catch- 

 meadows on Exmoor, by R. Smith, xii. 

 139. 



■ , on an improved system, by John 



Bickford, xiii. 162; observations on 

 this, by E. Archer, xiv. 153. 



, on an improved and cheaper system 



of laying out catch-meadows, by Sir 

 S. Northcote, xiii. 172. 



, on the theory ofj by P. Pusey, xiii. 



177. 



on the Cumberland hillsides (Dick- 

 inson), xiii. 291. 



, saltpeti-e used in, in Bengal (Pusey), 



xiii. 359. 



, the difference of the waters of the 



rivers Wey and Mole of Surrey for 

 (Evershed), xiv. 403. 



, J. Druce on Bickford's system of, 



xiv. 432. 



, effect of upon various grasses 



(Buckman), xv. 467; and upon the 

 herbs found with the grasses, 470. 



Isle of Ely, 62. See " Fen districts." 



Italian rye-grass, folium trcfoliiim, on 

 its culture and usefulness, by J. Rod- 

 well, ii. 214, V. 285. 



suitable for irrigation (Lord Bray- 

 brooke), vi. 522. 



, on the application of liquid ma- 

 nure to, by W. Dickinson, vi. 575. 



, on a variety of, by W. Dickinson, 



viii. 572. 



, analysis of (Way), xiv. 177. 



, analysis of ashes of, by J. T. Way, 



ix. 144. 



, growth of, in Cumberland (W. 



Dickinson), xiii. 274. 



Jenkinson, Henry T. J., on irrigation 



as practised in Switzerland, xi. 607. 

 Jersey, misnamed Alderney, cow, on the, 



by Colonel Le Couteur, v. 43. See 



" Cow." 

 , scale of points in (Eoj-al Jersey 



Agr. Soc), xii. 583. 

 Jersey bull, scale of points in, xii. 582. 

 Jersey, Isle of, its system of ploughing. 



