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LINCOLNSHIRE. 



the Wash, 292; Ancholme river, the 

 drainage efifectecl by, 293 ; Hatfield 

 Chace described, ib. -. the warping 

 system of the Isle of Axholm de- 

 scribed, 295 ; Mr. Gossip's improve- 

 ments in Hatfield Chace, covering the 

 soil with warp, 296 ; extent of fen 

 warped since Arthur Young's time, ib. ; 

 the claying of fens, 297 ; Arthur 

 Young's description of the Wolds in 

 1760, ib.; again in 1799, 298; the 

 Brocklesby estate described, ib. ; the 

 chalk fanning of, ih. ; its three points, 

 300 ; bones used in, ib. ; the stall- 

 feeding of, ib. ; the oilcake used in, 

 ib. ; the dung produced by, 301 ; Mr. 

 Chaplain's improvements at Temple 

 Bruer, 302 ; map of the county, ib. ; 

 the farming of Mr. Prankish, 303 ; the 

 plough employed, 304 ; the farm-horses, 

 ib. ; their waggons, 305 ; waggons and 

 carts contrasted, ib. ; injurious effects 

 of hedgerow timber, 300 ; good effect, 

 of enclosures upon the labourers, 315 ; 

 taskwork in, ib. ; farmers described, ib. 



Lincolnshire, the black horse of (J. 

 Burke), v. 519. 



, the fens of South Lincolnshire, the 



great level of, by J. A. Clarke, a prize 

 report, viii. 80. See " Fens." 



, on the farming of, by J. A. Clarke, 



a prize essay, xii. 259 ; the character 

 of its soils, especially of its marsh and 

 fenland, 2iil ; section of its strata, 2r)2 ; 

 the lias, 203 ; the oolite, 265 ; the Ox- 

 ford and Kimmeridge clays, 269 ; the 

 precnsand, i''. ; the wolds 271, 330; 

 diluvium or drift, 275 ; the alluvial 

 formation, 279 : Roman roads and em- 

 bankments, ib. ; the blue clay, 280 ; the 

 peat, 281 ; the Wash, 285; the warp 

 lands of Axholmc, 287 ; remains of 

 ancient forests, 288 ; the drainage of 

 the county, 289 ; South Holland, 292 ; 

 Deeping fen, 295 ; steam-engine em- 

 ployed, 29:>, 325, 329 ; rainfall, 297 ; 

 the black sluice drainage, 300 ; Holland 

 fen, 302 ; ancient state of the fen, 306, 

 307 ; the sea-banks, 312 ; inundations, 

 ib.; the Ancholme level, 314; Sir Johu 

 Rennie and the catchwater drains, 

 317 ; former o[H)osition to the drainage 

 of the fens, 321; scoop-wheel, 329; 

 the wolds, turnips on, 330 ; manures 

 used for, 333 ; sheep, their local names 

 at different ages, ib. ; seeds. 334 ; 

 weetls, 337 ; implements used, ib. ; the 

 farmers of Lord Yarborough's estates, 

 ib. ; the heath and the cliff, 339 ; rota- 

 tions on, ib. ; the chalk drift used as a 

 manure, tiie Carrs, 355 ; sheep, 360 ; 



LIQUID. 



rotations on the warp land, 366 ; on 

 the clay loam, 367 ; on the sand loam, 

 ib. ; on the sand and peat, 368 ; the 

 process of warping in this county and 

 in Italy, 371 ; the western district, 

 375 ; peat, paring and burning of, 381 ; 

 claying of, 382 ; farmyard manage- 

 ment, 389 ; tenant-right, 388 ; feeding 

 horses, 390 ; feeding beasts, ib. ; feed- 

 ing pigs, ib. ; management of manure, 

 391 ; the long-woolled sheep examined, 

 393 ; on increasing the cultivation of 

 swedes, 396 ; on the consumption of 

 straw with oilcake, 398 ; the compara- 

 tive merits of rape and turnips, 401 ; 

 the labourers, 403 ; farm-horses, 412 ; 

 the acreage cultivated in 1799 and 

 1849, ib. 



Lincolnshire sheep, the, on, by J. Wil- 

 son, xvi. 223. 



Lineal measure, table of, vii. 131. 



LiNHAYS, the, of Somersetshire (Acland), 

 xi. 746. 



Links, the, in Scotland, the farming of 

 the light soils of (Haxton), xv. 94. 



Linseed as a food for horses, by W. C. 

 Spooner, ix. 273. 



, analysis of, by J. T. Way, x. 489, 



xi. 519. 



, ordinary produce per acre of seed 



and straw (J. WilsonJ, xiv. 193. 



LiNSEEU-CRUSHERS, a report by P. Pusey 

 on those shown at the Great Exhibitioii 

 (in 1851), xii. 634. 



, on those shown (in 1852) at the 



Lewes meeting, xiii. 325. 



the, exhibited at the Shrewsbury 



meeting (1645), vi. 317. 



LiNSEED-CAKE, scc " Oilcakc. 



Linseed-oil is occasionally given as a 

 substitute for oilcake, iv. 234. 



, proportion of, yielded by different 



varieties of linseed ( M'.\dam \ viii. 392. 



LiNSLAUE farm in Buckinghamshire, ac- 

 count of improvements in, by W. G. 

 Ilayter, iv. .340. 



Linton, W., report on the turnip crop on 

 strong land, i. 451. 



, on the best method of draining 



rinming sands, a prize essay, vii. 1 15. 



LisUM catharticum, » f " I'urging flax." 



Liyuiu manure, C. W. Johnson on, a 

 prize essay, i. 147; its earlv employ- 

 meut, iV>. ; early erroneous ideas as to 

 water food of plants, 148 ; \'on Hel- 

 mont's trials, 149 ; various theories as 

 to irrigation, 15ti; organic matters in 

 natural waters, i''. ; ansilvsis of river- 

 waters, 152; the liquid manure of 

 Belgium, 153; of France and Switzer- 

 land, i''. ; Professor Schubler's experi- 



