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INDEX TO EOYAL AGRICULTURAL JOUEXAL. 



Rye straw and grain analysed, by Dr. 



Fownes, iii. 529. 



, on the St. John's day, by P. Pusej-, 



vi. 177. 

 • , on a Tariety of, as green fodder, by 



R. Baker, vi. 179. 

 , on the St. John's day, by W. P. 



Taunton, vii. 335. 

 , analysis of the ash of the seeds 



(Way), vii. G47. 

 , on a variety of Italian rye-grass, by 



W. Dickinson, viii. 572. 

 ■ , analysis of the ashes of Italian rye- 

 grass, by J. T. Way, ix. 1-14. 

 ■ , analysis of rye grown on warp soils, 



by T. J. Herepath, xi. 108. 

 ■ and rye sti'aw analysed, xiii. 454, 



474. 

 ■ , rye-grass, and rye-grass hay, ana- 

 lysis of, xiii. 466. 

 ■ sometimes ploughed in as a green 



manure for I'oot crops in Surrey 



(Evershed), xiv. 85. 

 , annual rye-grass, analysis of (Way), 



xiv. 177. 



, rj-e-grass, and clover, growth of on 



:. light flinty chalk soils (Haxton), xv. 



101 ; on the sandy soils of Norfolk, 120. 

 , the ergot of, on, by J. Buckman, 



XY. 477. 

 , on the saving of rye-grass seeds 



(Buckman), xv. 472. 

 Ryelands, the, of Herefordshire (Eow- 



landson), xiv. 436. 



sheep, the, J. Wilson on, xvi. 237. 



Rye and Derwent drainage, a report on, 



by J. Anderson, xiv. 129. 



s. 



Sainfoin, analysis of the ashes of, by J. 

 T. Way, is. 1 42 ; of the organic 

 matters of, xiv. 179. 



, on the giant sainfoin, by T. Hine, 



X. 54. 



■ , cultivation of, in Gloucestershire 



(Bravendar), xii. 139. 



■ plant and its hay analysed, xiii. 466. 



, growth of, in Oxfordshire (Read), 



XV. 217 ; paring and burning after, 

 219 ; dressed with wood-ashes, 245. 



■ , growth of, in Dorsetshire (Ruegg), 



XV. 413; giant sainfoin, its superiority 

 to the common variety, 407. 



Sal ammoniac, see " Muriate of am- 

 monia." 



Saliva, its use in the mastication of food 

 (Playfair), iv. 234. 



Salt, common, its use to live stock (Play- 

 fair), iv.. 236 ; too large a proportion 



injurious, 237 ; effect upon a fatting 



goose, -ib. ; its use for sheep, ». 

 Salt, common, destroys the wii'ewonn 



(Curtis), V. 205. 

 , experiments with, upon oats, barley, 



and wheat, by J. Hannam, v. 267. 

 and charcoal, experiment with, on 



turnips, by the Earl of Essex, v. 280. 

 , the large quantity present in a soil 



in which the wheat-plant will vegetate 



(Parkes), vii. 268. 

 , on the power of soils to retain, by 



H. S. Thompson, xi. 68, 74. 

 , spray of the sea, distance carried by 



the wind in Cumberland, xiii. 281. 



, chemistry of (Hemming), xiii. 430. 



, analysis of, from Cheshire, bay, and 



sea-water, xiii. 490. 

 • •, used in Derbyshire as a dressing 



for wheat (Rowley), xiv. 60 ; and in 



Surrey (Evershed), 91. 

 , used for grass-land, with bones and 



guano, by R. JNlilward, xiv. 430. 

 Saltpetre {see '• Nitrate of potash)," on 



its use as a manure, by G. Kimberley, 



i. 275. 

 and nitrate of soda, as manures, by 



Lord Dacre, i. 278. 

 Sampling, on, of guano, by J. T. Way, 



X. 227. 

 Sands, on the best method of draining 



running sands, by W. Linton, a prize 



essay, vii. 115. 

 ■ , influence of sandy soils upon the 



temperature of the atmosphere (Whit- 

 ley), xi. 9. 

 , on their power to absorb certain 



manures, by J. T. Way, xi. 316. 

 , analysis of a soil from Mid-Lothian 



and the valley of the Trent, xiii. 544. 

 ■ , the farmingof the sandy or silicious 



soils (Haxton), xv. 91; of the Hast- 

 ings sand, 92. 

 , on the fei'tility or barrenness of 



sandy soils, by J. Coleman, xvi. 173, 



176 ; analysis of a barren and a fertile 



soil, 194. 



of Buckinghamshire (Read), vi. 273. 



, the weeds of (Buckman), xvi. 



368. 

 Sanp, sea, used as manure in Cornwall 



(Karkeek), vi. 440. 

 , used as a manure in Devonshire 



(Tanner), ix. 469. 

 , from Devon, Isla, and Normandy, 



analysis of, xiii. 536. 

 Sandwort, the three-leaved, its soils 



and habits (Buckman), xvi. 360. 



, the thyme-leaved, ih. 



Sanitary eliects of laud-drainage, on, by 



E. Chadwick, iv. 151. 



