VOLUMES ONE TO SIXTEEN. 



87 



Sawdust, wetted, and placed in oxygen 

 gas, emits carbouic acid gas, iv. 514. 



, its use in the preparation of com- 

 post, by J. Dixon, i. 135. 



Scab in sheep (Cleeve), i. 323, 325; 

 ( H. Smith), viii. 22. 



ScABiosA columbaria, or small scabious 

 (liuckman), xvi. 301. 



ScANuix pecten, st'c " Shepherd's needle." 



Scarifier, or grubber, J. Morton on, iii. 

 119. 



, Biddel's, on the use of, by H. Case, 



i. 357. See "Biddel's scarifier." 



, report on thoi^e shown at the Great 



Exhibition (in 1851), by 1*. Pusey, xii. 

 595. 



, those shown at the Lewes meeting 



(I852>, xiii. 315. 



, at the Gloucester meeting (1853), 



xiv. 357. 



, at the Lincoln meeting (1854), xv. 



373. 



, at the Carlisle meeting (1855), xvi. 



507, 524. 



Schools, the agricultural, of France, i. 

 2G4, iii. 365. 



of Germany, iii. 370. 



of Mr. Davies Gilbert, iii. 377. 



ScHL'BLER, Professor, on the physical 

 properties of soils, and the means of 

 improving them, tianslated by J. Hud- 

 son, i. 177. -bVi; " Soils." 



Science, a lecture on its application to 

 agriculture, by Dr. C. Daubeuy, iii, 

 130. 



ScoBiE, John, on the growth of the tussac- 

 grass in the isle of Lewis, x. 182. 



ScHLESWiG, the rural economy of, by J. 

 S. Carr, i. 371. See " Holsteiu." 



Scooi'-WHEELS, the, employed in raising 

 water fronj the Lincolnshire fens 

 (Clarke,, xii. 320. 



, tiiat used in the drainage of a por- 

 tion of Martinmere, in Lancashire 

 (White), xiv. 163. 



Scotch fir, the, its planting and manage- 

 ment, iii. 276. 



for fences, J. Grigor on, vi. 223. 



, on planting, by Sir J. S. Meuteath, 



ix. 373. 



— — boufihs, on draining with, by Lord 

 Portman, ix. 452. 



, plantations of, in Cumberland 



(Dickinson', xiii. 282. 



ScoTi.A.VD, south of, rotation of crops com- 

 monly foliowi'd in, by T. Halnier, iv. 

 194. Nfi; •' IJolation of crops.'' 



, its geniTal agriculture consiilered, 



b% Mr. Pusiy (lS42), to bo on a level 

 with that of North Devon, iv. 'i'-M. 



, an account of the improvements 



which have taken place in its agricul- 

 ture since the formation of the High- 

 land Society, by J. Dudgeon, a prize 

 essay, i. 50 ; former modes of culture, 

 63 ; introduction of leases, 64 ; former 

 course of crops, 65 ; the introduction 

 of drilled turnips by Dawson of Frog- 

 den, (/7 ; the old Scotch plougli, 69; 

 manures, 70; draining, 71; fences, 

 ib. ; rents, ih. ; produce, 73 ; live stock, 

 75 ; first volume of Highland Society's 

 Transactions published n\ 1 799, 78 ; im- 

 plements, 80 ; rents, 80 ; live stock, 81 ; 

 Edinburgh Farmers' Alagiizine com- 

 menced in 1800, 83; manures, 84; 

 draining, 85 ; implements, ih. ; live 

 stock, 86 ; rent, 87 ; produce, 88 ; agri- 

 cultural depression of 1815,91 ; modem 

 draining, 94 ; modern manures, 96 ; 

 live stock, 97 ; introduction of Cheviot 

 sheep, ih. ; implements, 98 ; produce, 

 99; general review of, 103; arable 

 soils, acreage of, 102 ; Roxburghshire, 

 its progress in agriculture, ih. ; rotation 

 of crops, drill system, ih. ; its produce 

 in 1784 and in 1837, its breeding flocks, 

 107 ; rental, 109 ; the iucrea.sed value of 

 its land, 1 10 ; general improvements, 

 ih. 



Scotland, acreage of (Hoskyns), xvi. 

 571; its agricultural produce, 598; 

 statistical map of, 600. 



Scotch black faced sheep (Wilson), xvi. 

 227 ; wool of, 241. 



Scour, on the bathing of lambs as a cure 

 for the, by K. Fisher, v. 279. 



, recipe for the cure of, in lambs 



(Pawlett.i, vi. 366. 



Scrofulous diathesis in horses (Dun), 

 xiv. 124. 



in cattle (Dun), xv. 79. 



in sheep (Dun), xvi. 31, 392. 



in pigs (Dun), xvi. 40; scrofulous 



and cancerous tumours in. 41. 



Scutch, on the analysis of, by J. T. Way, 

 x. 615, xi. 766, xiii. 498. 



Scythe, the corn, that of Kent described 

 by H. Boys, i. 444. 



comjiared with the sickle in harvest- 

 ing wlu-at (Hodwelli. i. 447. 



in Cumberland (by W. Dickinson), 



xiii. 2."i;i. 



Sea, its arctic current, and the gulf- 

 stream, the effect of, on our climate 

 (Whitley), xi. 19, 21,2.5. 



, mean temperature of, greater than 



that of tlie atniospln ro. xi. 23. 



, the tenipi-rature of the pnlf-strcam 



varies in ditl'erent sea.sons, xi. 25. 



. , tempiratnre of, in the British 



Channel in 1S49, xi. 5'J. 



