GENERAL INDEX TO KOYAL AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



AGEICXTLTUKAL. 



Ageicultural notes on the census of 

 1S61 (J. D. Dent, M.P.),xxv. 318. See 

 " Census." 



Societies, references to. — Yorkshire 



Society (Thompson^ xxv. 1 ; Royal 

 Irish Improvement, ib. ; Bath and 

 West of England Society, 2 ; Highland 

 Society, ib.; English Board of Agri- 

 cidture, ib. 



Agkictjltuke, a science of facts (KulJ- 

 maiui), xvii. 598. 



in Algeria, P.D. (J. Caird. M.P.), 



xxiii. 454 ; cotton cultivation, ib. ; ])ro- 

 ductions of Algeria, ib. ; population, 

 colonics, and cultivation, 45.") ; climate, 

 456; extent of cultivable land, ih.; 

 cattle and sheep. 457; French settle- 

 ments and establishments for improving 

 the breed of horses, ib. ; fann of a Jersey 

 colonist, 458 ; A'i.scount d'Armagnac'a 

 farm, ib. ; Arab cultiu-e, 45!) ; the plain 

 of the Shelliff, ib. ; its physical geo- 

 graphy, ib. ; French policy in Algeria, 

 460 ; annual revenue. — Discugsian, Mr. 

 Frere and Mr. Caird, 461. 



Board of (Tiiompson, M.P.), xxv. 2. 



of England, its state as a science 



iu 1S3!», by I'hilip Pusey, i. 1 ; sta- 

 tistics of, ib.; ravages of the turnip- 

 fly, 2 ; the spade-husbandry of Belgium, 

 and of the fens of Lincolnshire, 5; 

 manures suggested, 10 ; period of 

 wheat-sowing, 11 ; origin of the che- 

 valier barley, ib. ; the clover plant, its 

 failui'c, ih. ; the orobanche disease, ib. ; 

 the growth of carrots and pai-snips, 13 ; 

 the tiu-nip-cuttcr, 16; the domestic 

 animals of England, 17 ; expense of 

 maintaining cart-horses, 19. 



, its progress during the four years 



preceding October, 1842, by P. Pusey, 

 iii. 169 ; drainage, ib. ; manufacture of 

 di'aining-tiles, 173; cost of thorough- 

 draining, 176 ; sub.soil-ploughing, 179 ; 

 too gi-eat lightness of soil, 180; chalk- 

 ing, ib. ; marling, 181 ; " crag," use of, 

 in Sufiblk, 183- the plough, 186; on 

 its di-aught, 191 ; one-horse carts, 193; 

 diilhng, 195; selection of seed, 195; 

 wheat-barley, 196 ; chevalier barley, ib. ; 

 the Dyok and other oats, 197 ; green 

 crops, ib. ; root crops, 198 ; the white 

 Belgian carrot, 202 ; vetches, 203 ; 

 sheep, 204 ; cattle, 205 ; shed-feeding 

 sheep, 206 ; on spreading manure on 

 grass-lands, 209 ; use of bone-dust as 

 a manure, 210 ; rape-dust, ib. ; woollen 

 rags, 211 ; nitrate of soda, ih. ; guano, 

 211; marling, 216. 



, progress of, and the R. A. 



Society (H. S. Thompson, M.P.), xxv. 



AGRICULTURE. 



1 ; experience of 25 years, and com- 

 pletion of first series of Journal, ib. ; 

 formation of R. A. Society, ib. ; Agri- 

 cultui'al Societies, early formation of, 

 ib. ; cause of their inefficiency, ib. ; 

 adoption of the migmtory principle, 

 railway fiicilities, 3 ; statistics of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society, table of 

 income and expenditure for 23 years, 5 ; 

 explanatory remarks, 3 ; cost of Journal, 

 4; chemical and veterinaiy investiga- 

 tions, 6 ; table of receipts and expendi- 

 ture at country meetings, 7 ; proofs of 

 pojiularity and progress, 8 ; subordinate; 

 position of agricultuml machinery 25 

 3'cars ago, ib. ; implement prizes at the 

 first Yorkshire meeting, ib. ; at the 

 Oxford and Cambridge meetings of 

 the Royal, 9 ; ]\Ir. Pusey "s article of 

 J 839, ib.; compari.son betwei'n early 

 and late implement shows, 10 ; the prizo 

 system, 1 1 ; jNIr. J. C. IMorton's ob- 

 jections considered, ib. ; July a suitable 

 month for tiials, ib. ; value of Judges' 

 Reports ; advantages and defects of com- 

 petitive trials, 12; advantages not con- 

 fined to prize-winners, 13 ; the trophy 

 and trial systems compared, 14; dif- 

 fusive influence of carefully adjudged 

 prizes, ib. ; manufacturers' objections, 

 15 ; ix)sition of the older makers, il). ; 

 trials a check to inferior work, ib. ; 

 tbcir advantages to the farmer, and 

 effect of their abolition, 16; objects of 

 implement shows, 17 ; steam as ap- 

 plied to agricultural machinerj% 18 ; 

 the Swing riots and present race ot 

 labourers, ib.; statistics, 19; steam for 

 bam work, ib- ; the letting system, 

 ib. ; improved machinery indispensable 

 to the British cnrngrower, 21; steam « 

 cultivation in relation to small holdings, 

 ib. ; consolidation of farms and recon- 

 struction of buildings, ib. ; steam cultuns 

 of clay lands, 22 ; utilisation of small 

 engines, 23 ; the two-engine system 

 (Clarke),j6.; letting engines {orhhojb.; 

 companies, 24; eft'ect of free trade, table 

 of grain imports, 25 ; cause of increase, 

 26; increase of home-grown and im- 

 ported com in relation to that of popu- 

 lation, 27 ; wages and diet, ih. ; eco- 

 nomical considerations, 28 ; cattle, shce]j, 

 and swine imports, 29; quadrennial 

 average, ib. ; supplies to Smithfield and 

 the metropolitan markets, 31 ; decen- 

 nial average, 32 ; meat by railway, ib. ; 

 increasing scarcity of sheep, and ad- 

 vanced price of mutton, 33 ; average of 

 beef and mutton, 34 ; conclusions, price 

 of meat in relation to its cost and mode 



