VOLUMES OXE TO SIXTEEN. 



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WILTSHIRE. 



173 ; rotation, ib. : manures, ih. ; stifle- 

 buruinfr, ib. ; the procv.'ss described, >b. ; 

 the manures they employ, 174 ; turnips, 

 ib. ; pastures, 175 ; their breed of cattle 

 the shorthorn, 175; grazing: of cattle, 

 176; pigs, ib.; sheep, ib. -^ horses, ib.; 

 implements, ib. ; drainage of land, 177 ; 

 the terture on which the farms are 

 generally held, ib, ; wages of labourers, 

 ib. ; improvements and alterations since 

 1811, 178. 

 Wiltshire, the chalk soils of, described 



by Davis, xii. 483. 

 Winds, effect of the W. and N.W. winds 

 in the W. of England, by N. Whidey, 

 xi. 41. 



, on the prevailing, by B. Simpson, 



xi. 620; land and sea breezes, 621. 



of Cumberland, the "helm-wind," 



by W. Dickinson, xiii. 214, 215. 



of Dorsetshire i'Kuegg', xv. 435. 



WiNGATE, W. B.. account of the claying 

 of the peat-soils of Lincolnshire by, 

 ii. 407. 

 Win NO WING-MACHINES, a report on those 

 shown at the Great Exhibition (in 

 1851), by P. Pusey, xii. 631. 



, former rude mode of winnowing in 



Cumberland (Dickinson , xiii. 276. 



, those shown at the Gloucester 



meeting (1853), xiv. 351. 



, those shown at the Lincoln njeeting 



(1854), XV. 378. 



, those shown at the Carlisle meeting 



(1855), xvi. .507,515. 

 WiKEwouM, observations on the natural 

 history and economy of the wireworms 

 affecting the turnips, corn-crops, &c., 

 and also of their parents, the elaters 

 or beetles, called skipjacks, click- 

 beetles, &c., by John Curtis, v. 180; 

 almost omnivorous, 181 ; its food, ib. ; 

 the beetles the parents of the wire- 

 worm, lb.; elaters, skipjacks, or spring- 

 beetles, 182; the beetles' eggs, ib. ; 

 the wireworms, i'*. ; habits described, 

 ib. ; whether they can fast, 18",( ; the 

 crops which sufler from tlieir attacks, 

 190; oats, barley, iK; wheat, I'Jl ; 

 potatoes, l'.i2: hops, I '.(3; cabbages, 

 ib. ; the turnip, l'J4 ; this plant has the 

 greatest number of insect eueniies to 

 encounter, ib. ; pansies, dahluis, lobe- 

 lias, caniations, l'J6; where they do 

 most mischief, 197; Eotig commonly 

 most infested, il>. ; modes of dealing 

 with the wireworm, i''. ; fountl in 

 waste aiul wood lands, 2o() ; rolling- 

 crops attacked by tht-m. 2<)I ; crops 

 that destroy the wireMonn, 2(i3; effect 

 of liijuids on — water, ib. ; spirits of 

 voi,.s. I. — XVI. 



WOOD. 



turpentine, spirits of wine, ib. ; spirits 

 of tar, refuse lime of gas-works. 204 

 effect of lime and soot and salt, 205 

 the rook an enemy to wireworms, 207 

 and pheasants, partridges, lapwings, 

 208 ; engravings of the wireworm in 

 its different stages, ib. ; the satin- 

 coated click-beetle, 217; the mouse- 

 coloured click-beetle, ib ; the tawny- 

 legged click-beetle, 218 ; the spitting 

 click-beetle, 219 ; the black click- 

 beetle, ilj. ; the margined click-beetle, 

 220 ; the pointed click-beetle, 221 ; 

 the long-necked click-beetle, ib. ; in- 

 sects which destroy the wireworms, 

 224 ; their parasites, 225 ; the parasites 

 of the click-beetles, ib. ; false wire- 

 worms, 227 ; the snake millepedes, 

 228. 

 WiBEwoRM, on the destruction of, by 

 J. M. H. Charnock, xi. 183. 



, their absence from Mr. Drewitt's 



farm near Guildford, a holding free 

 from weeds (Evershed), xiv. 84. 



WoAD, crops of, effect on the wireworm 

 (Curtis^ V. 203. 



Wolds of Lincolnshire, described by A. 

 Young, iv. 298. 



■ , by J. A. Clarke, xii. 271, 330. 



of Yorkshire described (Legard), ix. 



90, 92, 99, 103. 



, the soils of, described by Legard, 



xii. 480. 



Wolfe, R. B., on the comparative merits 

 of thick and thin sowing, ix. 453. 



, on the proper quantity of seed for 



wheat, xi. 184. 



Womb, inflammation of, in cows (Sibbald), 

 xii. 567. 



Wood, W. Bryan, on the improvements 

 to be made in land by amending the 

 channels of rivers and other water- 

 courses, xiii. 367. 



WooD,on the funguses of, dry-rot, &c., 

 by the Hev. E. Sidney, x. 394. 



ashes, analysis of, xiii. 490. 



, analysis of several kinds of (Payen), 



ii. 253. » 



, analysis of the wood of the apple, 



xiii. 530. 



of the pear, xiii. 530. 



of the cherry, ih. 



of the plum, il>. 



of the lilbert, ib. 



of the oak, ib. 



of the wiilnut, ib. 



of the ash, ib. 



of the elm, i5. 



of the fir, i'». 



of the larch, ih. 



of the beech, ib, 



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