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INDEX TO ROYAL AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



SOILS. 



antl Cambrkliresbire, 480; the soils of 

 Essex, by A. Young, 481 ; of Hertford- 

 shire, by A. Young, ib. ; of Berkshire, 

 by Mavor, 482 ; of Wiltshire, by Davis, 

 483; of Hampshire, by Vancouver, 

 484; of Dorsetshire, by Stevenson, 

 486 ; of Sussex, by A. Young, 487 ; of 

 Kent, by Boys, ib. ; of Surrey, by Ste- 

 venson, 488 ; of the whole chalk range, 

 489 ; of the greeusand, 490 ; of the 

 oolites and the lias, 491 ; of the new red 

 sandstone, 493 ; of the coal-measures, 

 494 ; of the old red sandstone, 494. 



Soils, on the, of Northamptonshire, by W. 

 Beam, the stony and gravelly, xiii. 52 ; 

 the heavy, Gl ; its moory and peaty, 69 ; 

 at Lois Weedon, 91 ; its grass, 76. 



, on the power of, to absorb manures, 



by J. T. Way, xiii. 123; the double 

 silicates of alumina and soda, 129; of 

 alumina and lime, 130 ; of alumina 

 and potash, 131; of alumina and am- 

 monia, ib. ; the power of the soil to 

 absoi'b manure derived from these 

 silicates, 135 ; how plants obtain their 

 mineral food, ib. ; origin of the siliceous 

 covering iu wheat-straw, 137 ; the power 

 of the silicates to absorb ammonia from 

 the air, 138 ; JethroTuU's system, 140 ; 

 the Rev. C. Smith's system, ib. ; the 

 mineral substances in a crop of wheat, 

 141. 



• of Cumberland, by W. Dickinson, 



xiii. 207. 



■ , probable amount of ingredients 



taken from or restored to a soil by the 

 several crops (seeded rye and beans) 

 and manures, by E. T. Hemming, xiii. 

 418 ; (by green rye, turnips, and beans), 

 419. 



, pfeat, alluvial clays, analysis of, xiii. 



54u. 



, loams, sandy, waste lands, disin- 

 tegrated rocks, xiii. 544. 



, analysis of two, where clover suc- 

 ceeded, and where clover failed, xiii. 

 552. 



, analysis of good Irish flax, xiii. 552. 



, of best Dutch flax, xiii. 552. 



, alluvial, at Hornchurch, xiii. 552. 



of barren pasture at Brayden, in 



North "Wiltshire, xiii. 552. 



where peas failed at Lancaster, xiii. 



552. 



where barley failed at Lynedock, in 



Perthshire, xiii. 552. 



where oats failed at Pampherston, 



xiii. 552. 



where turnips rotted, xiii. 554. 



, analysis of, where plantains would 



not grow, xiii. 554. 



Soils where plantations of firs were dying, 

 xiii. 554. 



where the lime was in the state of 



insoluble silicate, xiii. 554. 



where it was in the state of sulphate, 



and where it was in the state of car- 

 bonate, xiii. 554. 



■ , reclaimed peat, overlimed, xiii. 554. 



, of ochrey, ib. 



■ , amount of ingredients abstracted 



from a soil by a rotation of turnips, 

 barley, clover, and wheat, xiii. 560. 



, the same, in a rotation of turnips, 



wheat, beans, wheat, mangolds, wheat. 

 clover, wheat, xiii. 562. 



of Derbyshire (Rowley), xiv. 17; 



magnesian limestone, 20 ; of the coal 

 series, 27 ; of the millstone grit and 

 shale series, 39 ; of the carboniferous 

 limestone, 56 ; of the clays and gravels 

 of the new marl and new red sand- 

 stone, and the alluvium of the Trent 

 and Dove, 58. 



, on the improved methods of crop- 

 ping and cultivating light land, by 

 Sidney Evershed, a prize essay, xiv. 

 79 ; cleansing of, 83. 



, the effect of, on the growth of tim- 

 ber-trees (Evershed), xiv. 416. 



and subsoils of Herefordshire (Row- 



landson), xiv. 433. 



, the effect of, on the growth of tim- 

 ber-trees in Herefordshire, xiv. 451. 



, amount of water evaporated from a 



dry chalk and a saturated soil (Clarke), 

 XV. 41. 



on light-land farming, a prize essay, 



by J. Haxton, xv. 88 ; definition of a 

 light soil, 89 ; of the upper chalk, 90, 

 96 ; of the upper oolite, 91 ; the sandy 

 or siliceous, 27». ; of the Hastings sand, 

 92 ; of the plastic clay, ib. ; of the 

 granite in Scotland, ib. ; of the whin- 

 stone or trap-rocks, 93, 103 ; of the" 

 basalt, the greenstone, the amygdaloid, 

 93 ; of the " Links," 94 : the bog-earth 

 and peaty soils of Ireland, 95, 122 ; the 

 Norfolk light soils, 115; its different 

 rotations contrasted, 116. 



, the occasional difference of soils 



and the rocks on which they rest 

 (Ruegg), XV. 397. 



, on the influence of lime upon the 



absorptive properties of soils, by J. T. 

 Way, XV. 491 ; ammonia in, before and 

 after liming, 505, 512. 



, on the causes of fertility or barren- 

 ness in, a prize essay, by J. Coleman, 

 xvi. 169; mechanical distinctions of 

 soils, 173; argillaceous, siliceous, cal- 

 careous, humous, or peaty soils, ib. ; 



