INDEX TO ROYAL AGRICULTUIIAL JOURNAL. 



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NORFOLK. 



Almack, v. 307 ; its ploughing and 

 drilling, ib. ; state of its drainage, 308 ; 

 its fences, 309 ; claying and marling, 

 ib.; claying in the fens, 311 ; by Mr. 

 Cambridge of South Runcton, ib. ; ma- 

 nures, 313; horses, 314; cattle, 316; 

 sheep of, 317; the old Norfolk breed, 

 ib. ; pigs, 318 ; yards, boxes, buildings, 

 &c., 319 ; course of cropping and im- 

 plements used, 321 ; the farms of John 

 Hudson of Castleacre, 321 ; turnip cul- 

 tivation, 322 ; the practice of some of 

 the best Norfolk farmers, 324 ; setting 

 out of turnips, 325 ; barley cultivation, 

 326 ; clover cultivation, 328 ; sketch 

 of a new sheep-hurdle, 328 ; preparing 

 for wheat, i/j. ; the use of draught oxen, 

 S3() ; mustard-sowing, 334 ; oats little 

 cultivated, 336; beans, growth of, 339 ; 

 tares, ib. ; cabbages, 340 ; tenure of the 

 farms, 341 ; CokeEarl of Leicester's prac- 

 tice, ib.; alteration in the breed of sheep, 

 350 ; account of the number of cattle 

 and sheep at Smithfield market on three 

 market-days in 1843, 1844, 351 ; experi- 

 ments on the best distance of the rows 

 in drilling wheat, by Mr. Blyth, of 

 Burnham, 352 ; quantity of seed, 353 ; 

 dibbling wheat, 355 ; agricultural la- 

 bourers, 356. 



Norfolk, on the geology of, as illustrat- 

 ing the laws of the distribution of 

 soils, by J. Trimmer, vii. 444 ; the crag, 

 458 ;the freshwater-beds, 459; the lower 

 and upper drift, 461 ; the peat, 474 ; 

 alluvial district of East Norfolk, 472 ; 

 of West Norfolk, 477 ; fossil manures 

 of Norfolk, 478. 



• , the chalks of, described by J. Trim- 

 mer, xii. 480. 



, the farming of the light soils of, 



(Haxton), xv. 115; its diiferent rota- 

 tions compared, 1 1 6. 



down sheep, the, J. Wilson on, xvi. 



234. 



Northampton meeting, report of the 

 stewards of the implements exhibited 

 at, viii. 330. 



Northamptonshire, on the farming of, 

 by W. Beam, a prize essay, xiii. 44 ; 

 its soils — the lower oolite, 48 ; the lias, 

 ib. ; division of its soils and subsoils, 

 49 ; the management of its red stony 

 and sandy soils, on which are its stock 

 farms, 52 ; its rotation of crops, ib. ; its 

 turnip crops, tb. ; its barley crops, 56, 

 59 ; its clover-seeds, 57 ; the wheat 

 crop, 58, 59 ; the management of the 

 heavy soils, 61 ; its rotations, ib. ; fal- 

 lows, (;2 ; its root-crops, ib. ; its corn- 

 crops, 64 ; white mustard grown and 



NORTHUMBERLAND. 



ploughed in as manure, cows fond of, 

 67 ; the management of the moory and 

 peaty soils, 69 ; its rotations, 70 ; the 

 horses, 71 ; the implements, 72 ; ma- 

 nures, 74 ; the management of grass- 

 land, 76 ; cattle, 81 ; sheep, 82 ; pigs, 

 85 ; its farm-buildings, ib. ; labourers 

 and cottage allotments, 88 ; the sys- 

 tem of the Rev. C. Smith, of Lois 

 Weedon, 91; land-drainage, 92; im- 

 provements in its farming since 1806, 

 97 ; on the drainage of the Nene 

 Valley, 109. 



Northcote, Sir Stafford, on an improved 

 and cheaper system of laying out catch- 

 meadows, xiii. 172. 



Northumberland, its past and present 

 state of agriculture, by J. Grey, ii. 151 ; 

 its ancient disordered state, ib. ; its 

 wooden harrows, ib. ; when its agricul- 

 ture began to improve, 153 ; the Messrs. 

 Culley, ib. ; when turnips generally in- 

 troduced into its field culture, ib. ; when 

 first sown in drills in, 154 ; its soils, 

 mountain pasture, and unprofitable 

 ■wastes, 156; its fertile vales, ib. ; its 

 farm-leases, ib. ; the soil and size of 

 farms in its different districts, ib. ; the 

 rental of the farm of Wark, 158; the 

 rental of the farms of the Greenwich 

 Hospital estate since 1772, U'O ; rota- 

 tion of crops on its turnip soils, 161 ; 

 the potato and Hopeton oats, the com- 

 mon Scotch and Angus, ib. ; growers of 

 spring wheat and barley with grass- 

 seeds, 162; wheat, cultivation of, ib.; 

 the oat crop, when cut, ib. ; their mode 

 of harvesting oats, ib. ; the varieties of 

 barley cultivated in this county, 164; 

 barley hai'vest, ib. ; its turnip cultiva- 

 tion, ib. ; the average produce of the 

 best turnip Northumberland districts, 

 167 ; horse-hoeing turnips, 168 ; mode 

 of storing turnips, 169 ; the seeding 

 properties of the turnips grown in this 

 county, 171 ; their grass-seeds sown 

 with a drill, 172; its old meadow- 

 lands, 173; hay, how made, ib.; hay 

 badly made there, ib. 



, the sheep stock in the hill district, 



ii. 174 ; in the lowlands, ib. ; when the 

 Leicester first introduced, ib. ; the dis- 

 trict for sheep, ib. ; the price of sheep 

 per head, 175 ; the first cross between 

 Cheviot ewes and Leicester rams, ib. 



, its cattle, ii. 176 ; the breed, when 



introduced, ib. ; its West Highlanders,. 

 ib. ; its general stock of cattle, ib. ; the 

 cross between the shorthorns aud the 

 West Highlanders, ib. ; their manage- 

 ment of cattle, 177 ; stall-feeding, ib. 



