VOLUMES OXE TO SIXTEEN. 



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•artificial nitre beds, xiv. 392 ; analysis 

 of one at Kennington, ih. 

 Nitrate of soda, or cubic petre, experi- 

 ment and communications on its appli- 

 cation as a manure, by D. Barclay, ii. 

 117, 129. 



Trials by P. Pusey, ii. 118. 



tbe Earl of Zetland, ii. 124. 



J. Aldersou, ii. 12"). 



W. Calvert, ii. 12'i. 



Drowitt and Sou, ii. 127. 



G. Dewdney, ih. 



J. Burgess, ii. 1.'31. 



J. Ii. Barlver, ii. 133. 



J. Grey, ii. 134. 



J. C. Jobling, ii. 136, 



Vs'. Greaves, ii. 137. 



AV. L. Rham, ii. 139. 



W. II. Ilvett, i'j. 



"W. S. Stratford, ii. 259. 



■ J. Kodwell, ii. 260. 



■ C. Newman, ib. 



W. Clarke, iv. 276. 



, Dr. Fownes on, iv. 544. 



, experiments with, upon oats, barley, 

 and wlu'Ut, by J. Hannam, v. 267. 



, Lord Dacre on, i. 278. 



, Lord Zetland on, i. 280. 



, experiments with, by W. Calvert, 



(wheat and oats), i. 423; by George 

 Dewdney (on wheat, oats, pastures, and 

 onions), i. 425 ; by D. Barclay (upon 

 vheat, sainfoin, clover - seeds, tares, 

 ' meadow and pasture, and swede tur- 

 nips), 420 ; by Drewitt and Son (corn 

 crops and turnips), 424. 

 — — as a top-dressing for wheat, by P. 

 Pusey, xii. 202. 



and salt as a top-dressing for wheat, 



by II. W. Kearj-, xiii. 2(H). 



, effect of, in top-dressing grass in 



Windsor Park, by ¥. II. Seymour, xiii. 

 347. 

 — — , on the source and supply of, and its 

 use in small quantities as a restorative 

 to corn crops, by P. Pusey, xiii. 349 ; 

 its origin, .'$55. 



, adulterated with gypsum (Pusey), 



xiii. 362. 



, mixeil with salt, used as a top-dress- 

 ing for wlieat in Norfolk, xiii. .3(;4, by 

 11. W. Keary, 3(i7 ; by T. Garnett, 3G8. 



, analysis of, xiii. 4'jn. 



>-, experiments on wheat with, and 



with guano, soot, gvpsum, and salt 

 (Sir J. Tylden), xiv. I's. 

 — — used as a top-dressing for Mheat in 

 Surrey (Kvershed), xiv. 98 ; and as the 

 only manure on a j)lot for fifteen years, I'l. 

 , on the natural law by wliicii cubic 

 saltpetri.' acts as a manure, and on its 



iJORFOLK. 



substitution for guano, by P. Pusey, 

 xiv. 374 ; effect of, on grass, 376 ; sub- 

 stances strengthen vegetation mainly 

 by their contents of nitrogen, xiv. 377. 



NiTKATE of soda used for grass on a 

 peat-bog (J. Nicol), xv. 185. 



, on foreign nitrates, by P. Pusey, xv. 



515 ; analysis of, by J. T. Way, 516. 



Nitric acid, its efl'ect on grass (P. Pusey), 

 xiv. 376. 



Nitrogen, connection between, and the 

 nutrition of food (Daubeney), ii. 254. 



, the quantity of nitrogen in the seed 



varies according to the quantity of 

 nitrogen contained in the manure of the 

 soil (Hannam), iv. 179 ; Hermbstaedt's 

 trials with wheat, sec " Wheat." 



, how obtained by plants from the 



atmosphere and from animal manures 

 (Fownes), iv. 518. See " Food of 

 plants." 



is the element mainly required as 



manure on ordinary soils by our corn- 

 crops (P. Pusey), xiii. 358. 



, amount of, in cubic and salt petres, 



and in guano (Pusey), xiii. ."OO. 



, chemical properties of, xiii. 425. 



, origin of, in plants (P. Pusey), xiv. 



377 ; by A. Voelcker, 382. 



, the atmosphere as a source of, to 



plants, by J. T. Way, xvi. 249 ; M. 

 Saussure's researches, 252 ; Liebig's,253; 

 lioussingault's 253, 259 ; Grager's, 254; 

 Kemp's, ill. ; Fresenius's, ih. ■ De \'ille's, 

 255 ; Barral's, 258 ; Lawes and Gil- 

 bert's, 261. 



Norfolk, West, on the improvements 

 which have taken place in, by Earl 

 Spencer, iii. I ; Lord Leicester's efforts, 

 ifj. ; West Norfolk as a rye and as a 

 Avheat growing district, i>>. ; Lord Lei- 

 cester, wlien he began farming, 3 ; the 

 rent of it then, i6. ; origin of the Ilolk- 

 ham sheep-shearings, i'>. ; the soil of the 

 district, io. ; introduction of the use of 

 marl, i'*. ; Norfolk sheep, i'>. ; no cattle, 

 4 ; Lord Leicester and Bakewell's breed 

 of cattle, i''. ; and the Leicester sheep 

 and the Southdown, i''. ; and the Merino, 

 i'j.; his breed of pigs, 5 ; the growth of 

 wheat in Norfolk before 1778, 6 ; the 

 late Mr. Overman, 6 ; the rotation of 

 the Norfolk farmeis ))revious to this 

 time, 6 ; the late Mr. Overman's lease, 

 and its covenants, 7 ; the general causes 

 which led to Lord Leicester's success, 

 i''. ; his meetings. Ids liberal feelings, 

 Ids hospitality, >< ; long leases, i''. 



, on Norfolk draining, by H. Evans, 



iv. 43. 



, on the agriculture of, by Ilarugh 



