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GENERAL INDEX TO ROYAL AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



BIEMINGHAM. 



beetles and butterflies, 234 ; birds kept 

 down by destroying nesting-places, 235 ; 

 crusade against birds in Italy, ib. ; their 

 propagation in Germanj% ib. ; ichneu- 

 mons, 237; reptiles destructive to in- 

 sects, ib. ; insects eggs, their vast num- 

 ber, and destruction by small bii'ds, 

 238; utility of the titmouse, Count 

 Woszicke's testimony, ib. ; habits of the 

 wi'cn, redstart, swallow, and sparrow, 

 239; Frederick the Great's cxtennina- 

 tiou of sparrows, ib. ; singing-birds 

 generally insectivorous, 240 ; the swal- 

 low, lark, cnckoo, and woalpccker, ib. ; 

 owls, 241 ; the hawk tribe, falcons, and 

 buzzards, 242 ; crows, mngpies, and 

 pigeons, 243 ; the twite and brarabling, 

 ib. • the bull and haw finch, 244 ; Ger- 

 man laws against bird destniction, ib. ; 

 suggestions for their i)rotectiou and 

 encoura<!;ement, 24;"). 



BiUMiNGiiAM, the farming and market 

 gardening nciir, xvii. 4.^1. 



, sewage, how utilised at Aston, xvii. 



489. 



BiSTOKT, the (Buckman\ xvi. 3G4-37."). 



BiXA orellana, .sec " Aimatto." 



BiXKN, (jualitics of, xxiv. 550. 



Black caterpillar of the tuniip, J. Cm-lis 

 on, ii. 364. See " Insects." 



palmer, black jack, black slug,ii.3G4. 



earth, the, of tlie central regions of 



Russia, by R. I. INIurchison, viii. 125. 

 See " Russia." 



Blackburn- {It. D.), on dairy practice, 

 xxiii. 419. 



Blackki!, William, past and present state 

 of agriculture in Ireland, iv. 437. See 

 " Ireland." 



Black-head, the (Buckman), xvi. oG2. 



Black-leg, the, in sheep, xvi. 392. 



Black racdick, or nonsuch grass, analysis 

 of (Way), xiv. 179. 



Blackmooh, Vale of (Ruegg), xv. 417. 



Black mustard, its soils and habits, 

 (Buckman), xvi. 360; number of its 

 seeds, 377. 



Black-jitzzle in sheep (Cleeve), i. 303. 



Black-wateu in sheep (Cleeve), i. 316. 



Blackbukn, J. T., on the economical ap- 

 plication of the liquid manure of a 

 farm, xxiii. 1. 



Blacklock, a., on the cause of the rot in 

 sheep, xxiii. S3, 89. 



Blackwell, T. A. ("Vice-consul), letter 



on the mm-rain in Mecklenburg, xvii. 



331 ; despatches concerning, xviii. 218. 



Bladder campion, its soils and habits 



(Buckman), xvi. 360. 

 Blaikie, Mr. (Mr. Coke's steward), on 

 farmyard maume, xLs. 241. 



Blaikie, W., his pro25oscd rotation of 

 crops, i. 283. 



Bleachers' lime refuse, analj'sis of, xiii. 

 498. 



spent leys, analysis of, xiii. 50G. 



Bligh, Captain Walter, his work, ' The 

 English Imi^rover Improved,' noticed 

 by J. Parkes, vii. 252. 



Blight in apples, its prevention, by J. 

 Ellis, iv. 267. -S>e " Apples." 



in peas (E. Sidney), x. 391. 



in wheat, or epiphytes (Buclanan), 



xvii. 174; experiments on with pickle, 

 sulph. of copper, &c., 175. 



Blind, the, in sheep (R. Smith), viii. 24. 



Blood of the ox, analysis of, xi. 389, iv. 

 215. See "Fpod of live stock." 



, on, by J. B. Simonds, x. 575. 



, remarks on its composition, princi- 

 pally witli reference to diseases of 

 cattle and sheep in whichj tlie fluid 

 undergoes important changes (Prof. 

 Simonds), xxi. 20G ; j>roportional 

 weights of the solid and fluid parts of 

 the animal frame, ib. ; weight of the 

 blood to that of the entire body, 207 ; 

 definition of blood, ib. ; its red colour, 

 ib. ; its comjiosition, ib. ; coagulation, 

 ib. ; senim and its constituents in 

 heallh and disease, ib. ; albumen, its 

 presence and office in the blood, 209 ; 

 the liquor sanguinis, ib. ; salts of the 

 blood, 210; nature and properties of 

 fibrine, ib. ; Hunter's definition, ib. ; 

 its increase in inflammatory disorders 

 (Andral), ib. ; blood-letting, why and 

 when beneficial, 211 ; the cattle plague 

 of Eastern Europe accompanied by loss 

 of fibrine, ib. ; nutrition mainly due to 

 fibrine, ib. ; tlie red cells, discovered 

 by Malpighi, 212 ; their form and size 

 in man and tlie lower animals (Gulli- 

 ver), Prof. Queketfs investigations, 

 213 ; nucleation of blood cells in mam- 

 mals, ib. ; eftects of domestication, 214 ; 

 number of blood cells influenced by 

 sex (Dr. Carpenter), ib. ; their con- 

 nexion with respiration, ib. ; the act of 

 inspiration, 215; the expiratoiy act, 

 ib. ; arterial and venous blood, ib. ; 

 haematine and globidine, ib. ; why blood 

 differs in colour (Liebig), 216; effects 

 of absorbing oxygen and carbon and of 

 inhaling chloroform, ib. ; white corpus- 

 cules of blood, ib. ; their ofiice in rela- 

 tion to nutrition, 217; and presence in 

 inflammatory disease and butty blood, ib. 



, dried, as manure, by J. S. Way, xii. 



584 ; analysis of dry ox-blood and ox- 

 flesh, ib. ; annual consumption of meat 

 by au adult person, 585. 



