VOLUMES ONE TO SIXTEEN. 



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LUCERNE. 



Lucerne, the plant and its hay analysed, 

 xiii. 466. 



, dressed with -wood-ashes in Oxford- 

 shire (Read), xv. 245. 



Lychnis dioica, see " Common campion." 



Lycopsis arvensis, sec " Bugloss, the 

 small." 



M. 



MacAdam, J., on the cultivation of flax, 

 a prize essay, viii. 361. 



Macaike, M., on the excreta of plants, i. 

 287, iv. 536, 537. 



MacCormick's reaping machine, on, hy 

 P. Pusey, xii. 160. 



Macdermott, Edward, on Claussen's flax- 

 cotton, xii. 235. 



MacDouai,!,, Colonel, experiments in fat- 

 tening cattle on dift'erent descriptions of 

 food, xiii. 113. 



Mackenzie, Sir F. A., accomit of Mr. 

 Sim's experiments with manures, i. 

 418. 



Mac\icar, J. Y., on labourers' cottages, 

 a second-prize essay, x. 400. 



Magnesias limestone, sec " Limestone." 



Main, J., on cottage gardening, ii. 322. 



, on the orobanche or broom-rape, 



and prunella vulgaris or self-heal, 

 plants injurious to clover, i. 173. 



Maize, see " Indian corn." 



Malm, or grey marl, analysis of, by J. 

 T. Way, xii. 551. 



Malt, by malting barley a portion of its 

 starcli passes into sugar (Fownes), iv. 

 505. 



, tlie effect of feeding sheep on 



malted and unmalted barley (J. B. 

 Lawcs), X. 305, 317, 324, 326. 



, analysis of, xiii. 522. 



Malt- DUST, analysis of, xiii. 522. 



Malva rotuiidifolia, sec "Marshmallow, 

 the round-leaved." 



sylvestris, see " Marshmallow, the 



common." 



Man, analysis of excreta of, see " Night- 

 soil." 



, analysis of, xiii. 506. 



MANfJOLD-wuHTZKL, on tiio Comparative 

 feeding finalities of, and turnips, by 

 Earl Sjiencer. ii. 296. 



, on the cultivation of, by W. Miles, 



ii. 298. 



, this root not attacked by fly, slug, or 



wireworm (Miles;, ii. 299. 



, its seed must not be buried too deep, 



ii. 299; dibbling, i''. ; the seed do<s not 

 drill well, i''. ; steeping tbe seed, i>>. ; 

 analysis of Swedish turnips and white 

 turnips compared with tliree varieties 



of mangold-wurtzel, by Davy and Here- 

 path, 298. 



Mangold-wurtzel, grown on the ridge 

 system (Miles), ii. 299. 



, the after culture and storing. Mr. 



Miles adopts the same as for swedes, ii. 

 299. 



, exhausters of the soil, ii. 300. 



, of the orange globe, ii. 300 ; when 



the seed should be sown, ib. ; the tilth, 

 j'l. ; its use in feeding, ih. 



, Earl Lovelace on, iv. 21 ; plough- 

 ing for it, ih. ; duuging, ih. ; ploughs 

 and subsoils, ih. ; sows on the ridge, i'j. ; 

 setting out the rows, tV/. ; sut)soiliug a 

 second time, ih. ; taking up of the roof, 

 22 ; the succeeding crop, ih. ; the rota- 

 tions on his farm at Ockhani, ih. ■ the 

 weight of the root -crops, mangold, 

 swedes, and carrotf;, grown, 1831 to 

 1S42, at Ockhani, 23; on the feeding 

 properties of, contrasted with swedes, 

 by C. Hilyard, an experiment in favour 

 of swedes, iv. 274. 



, estimate of the expense of, in Essex, 



by R. Baker, v. 23. 



, growth of, in Cambridgeshire 



(Jonas>, vii. 45. 



, on the analysis of the ashes of, by 



J. T. Way, viii' 157. 



, on the cultivation of, by G. E. Rayn- 



bird, a prize essay, viii. 209 ; the soils 

 best adapted for, ih. ; the preparation of 

 the land for, 210 ; trial on steeping the 

 seeds of, 215 ; varieties of field beet, 

 217 ; mode and expense of taking up 

 the crop, 218; mode of storing, 220; 

 its advantages for feeding stock, 222. 



, growth of, in Suffolk, viii. 271. 



, on the insects which affect, by J. 



Curtis, viii. 399. 



, amount of dry matter in the crop 



grown at Rothamstead in 1847 

 (Lawes\ viii. 563. 



, of the funguses of, by the Rev. E. 



Sidney, x. 394. 



, on the cultivation of, with carrots 



in alternate rows, by P. Pusey, xii. 580. 



, Colonel .MacUouall's experiments 



with, and beanmeal, in feeding cattle, 

 xiii. 113.' 



, on the manufacture of sugar from 



beet, by J. Wilson, xiii. 144. 



, on the growth of bcetrcot in France, 



Germany, and Russia, for sugar, iii. 144. 



, plants transplanted from seed-beds 



in Belgium and (iermany, xiii. 146. 



, section of a beetroot, xiii. 150. 



, disposal on the continent of refuse 



of makers of beet sugar for feeding 

 purposes, xiii. 159. 



