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INDEX TO EOYAL AGIIICULTUEAL JOURNAL. 



WOOD. 



Wooi>, analysis of the wood of the birch, 

 xiii. 530. 



of the chesnut, ib. 



■ of the lime, ib. 



of the poplar, ib. 



Wood lyme-grass (Buckman), xv. 464. 



Woods of Devonshire (Tanner), ix. 484. 



■ of Cumberland (Dickinson), xiii. 



280. 



, analysis of the wood, bark, and 



leaves of forest-trees (Hemming), xiii. 

 530. 



of East Lothian (Stevenson), xiv. 



289. 



■ , beech, of Oxfordshire (Eead\ xv. 



253. 



of Dorsetshire (Euegg), xv. 414. 



, beech, of Buckinghamshire (Bead"), 



xvi. 307. 



, on the grubbing up of, by J. E. 



Denison, xvi. 352 : expenses of, 354 ; 

 injury of the shade of a wood, and pre- 

 vention of a free circulation of air, 358. 



WooDWABD, F., on a method of breaking 

 up inferior pasture-land, ix. 54. 



Wool, the merino, or Saxon of Mecklen- 

 burgh (S. Carr), i. 131. 



, observations on, by R. Smith, viii. 



25. 



, the prices of, in 1341, and during 



the present century, by T. Rowlandson, 

 X. 422 ; produced by diflerent sheep 

 slaughtered in London in 1800,425; 

 effects of smearing on, 445. 



, the weight of wool produced in a 



comparative trial of 40 Sussex and 40 

 Hampshire Down sheep, by J. B. 

 Lawes, xii. 429. 



produced from 46 Cotswold sheep, 



by J. B. Lawes, xiii. 189. 



analysed, xiii. 490. 



of Dorsetshire (Ruegg), xv. 432. 



produced from Leicester sheep and 



vcross-breds, in the trials of J. B. Lawes, 

 xvi. 58, 60 ; from other sheep, 73 ; 

 average prices of, 81. 



, on the general character, com- 

 mercial uses, &c., of British wool, by 

 John Wilson, xvi. 239; "hogs" or 

 " tegs," ib. ; " wethers " and " ewes," in- 

 fluence of careful and regular feeding 

 upon the growth of, 240 ; influence of 

 climate, locality, and soil, ib. ; Scotch 

 cross-bred and Welsh wools, 241 ; Down 

 and Dorset-stapled wool, ib. ; the deep- 

 grown combing wools, ib. ; woollens, 

 242 ; worsteds, ib. ; with cotton warps, 

 243; skin wool, 244; seats of the Eng- 

 lish manufactures of woollen cloths, 

 ib. ; blankets, low woollens, low car- 

 pets, worsted goods, flannels, ib. ; prices 



YORKSHIRE. 



of various wools, April 1, 1855, 245; 

 Lincoln wool, ib. ■ Leicester, ib. • Cots- 

 wold, Komuey marsh, Devon, Bam- 

 borough, ib. ; Bampton Down, Rye- 

 land, merino, 246 ; Dartmoor, Kxmoor. 

 Radnor or Welsh, Cheviot, black-faced 

 Highland, Herdwick, Shetland, cross- 

 bred, 247. 

 Woollens, manufactures of, J. Wilson 

 on, xvi. 242. 



I'ags, as a manure for beetroot, by 



P. Pusey, vi. 529. 



, the analysis of, by J. T. Wav, x. 



617, xiii. 498. 



, prennings, cuttings, shoddy ana- 

 lysed, xiii. 498, 



, woollen refuse used as a manure in 



Oxfordshire (Read), xv. 244. 



or shoddy, a refuse of the flock- 

 works, its use as a manure, by Dr. A. 

 Voeicker, xvi. 94. 



"Work, measure, on, by H. Eaynbird, vii. 



119. 

 Worms, earth, the way in which they 



aid in draining land, by J. Beart, iv. 



413. 

 , the depth to which they penetrate, 



by J. Parkes, vii. 266. 

 , their fondness for hemp (Rowland- 

 son), x. 178. 

 ■ , their holes filled and the worms 



killed by irrigation (P. Pusey), x. 476. 

 Worsteds, the manufactories of, J. 



Wilson on, xvi. 24?.. 

 Wounds of sheep (Cleeve), i. 321. 

 Wormwood, if eaten by cows, gives a 



bitter taste to their milk (Ruegg), xiv. 



69. 

 Wright, J., on shorthorn cattle, vii. 201. 

 Wychwood forest (Read), xv. 251. 



Yam, the water, its tuber analysed, xiii. 



522. 

 , the guinea, its tuber analysed, xiii. 



522. 

 Y.4.RROW grass, the, analysis of (Way), 



xiv. 179. 

 Yellow oat-like grass, analysis of (Way), 



xiv. 17 7. 



, its growth in different situations 



. (Buckman), xv. 468. 

 York meeting, report of the exhibition 



and trials of implements at, by H. S. 



Thompson, ix. 377. 

 Yorkshire, on the farming of the East 



Riding, by G. Legard, a prize report, 



ix. 85 ; of the wolds, ib. ■ soils resting 



on the chalk, their origin, and defici- 



