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Blood of a healthy and of a glainlcroiis 

 horse analysed (F. Dun), xiv. 129. 



, the " Bootliblood," in shorthorn 



cattle, xix. oGl. 



Blundell, J. Bursledon, hi^^ farm manage- 

 ment, xxii. 273. 



, on fatting bullocks on arable farms, 



xxiii. 478. 



, on the conversion of old barns into 



cattle-boxes, xxv. 250. 



Blytii, Mr., of Burnham, Norfolk, ex- 

 periments by, on drilling wheat at dif- 

 ferent distances, v. 355. 



, Dr., his preface to Liebig's ' Natural 



Laws of Husbancirj',' xxiv. 420. 



BoBBiN-JOAN, a disease in potatoes, on, 

 by Sir C Lemon, iv. 431. 



Bobierre's analysis of the water of the 

 Loire, xxii. 432. 



Bog, an account of an improvement of 



J, a shakin<j bog at IMeare in Cheshire, by 

 E. Galton, vi. 182. 



, red, see " Red bog." 



, the formation of, attiibuted to the 



action of iron springs {H. Tanner), xix. 

 47. 



Bog-earth, tlie faiTQing of the light soils 

 of, in Ireland (Haxton), xv. 95. 



Bog iron-ore, analysis of a specimen of, 

 from Islay, xiii. 554, xvii. 472. 



Boiler cleaning process adopted at Wool- 

 wich (Mr. Holland), xxiii. 431 ; (Dr. 

 Voelcker), xxv. 567. 



tubes, French, moveable (Dcnison), 



xvii. 396. 



Bond, Mr., on stock farming, xxi. 166. 



Bone, Mi-, of Avon, Hants, his farm 

 management, xxii. 285. 



Bone-black, or animal charcoal, its ana- 

 lysis (Dr. Voelcker), xxi. 379. 



Bone-mills, those sliown at Lincoln meet- 

 ing (1854), XV. 373. 



, those shown at Carlisle (1S55), xvi. 



519. 



, tliose at Chester flSoS), xix. 345. 



Bones, application of, to grass-land, in 

 Cheshire, by E. Billyse, ii. 91 ; grass- 

 soil best adapted for bones, ib. ; when 

 tenants allowed to put on bones, ib. ; 

 time of application, ib.; weight of a 

 bushel of bone-dust, ib. ; size preferred, 

 ib. ; boiled and green bones equally 

 efficacious, 92. 



for turnips, by R. A. Christopher, 



267. 



, compared with Poittevin's manure, 



- by J. Hig-ins, 269. 



, by H. C. Compton, il). 



, trials on turnips with, by J. Everett, 



270 ; on different manures as a substi- 

 tute for, by J. Marshal], iii. 164. 



Bones, on the solution of, in suljihuric 

 acid, for the purposes of manure, by 

 the Duke of Richmond, iv. 164, 408. 



, note on the above paper, by P. 



Pusey, ib. ; natureof bones, ib. ; boiled 

 bones as good manure as unboiled, 408 ; 

 calcined bones, ib. 



, Dr. Fownes on, iv. 542. 



, on the application of dissolved (J. 



Hannam\ v. 452. 



used for turnips in Nottinghamshire 



before 1794, vi. 17. 



, an experimental inquiry into the 



theory of the action and the practical 

 application of, as a manure for turnijis, 

 a prize essay, by J. Hannam, vi. 49 ; 

 the inorganic portion the most valuable, 

 53, 61 ; trials with, fresh, boiled, finely 

 pulverized, rough, and dissolved in sul- 

 phuric acid, 59. 



and sulphuric acid, by W. C. 



Si^oouer, vi. 71. 



as a manure for beetroot, by P. 



Pusey, vi. 529. 



, on a new method of preparing for 



manure, by P. Pusey, viii. 17 (ferment- 

 ing). 



, on the putrefaction of, by P. Pusey, 



ix. 530. 



, on, by J. T. Way, x. 217. 



for pastures, by P. Pusey, xi. 400. 



, analysis of fossil bones (Herepath), 



xii. 100. 



cateu by " crovek'd " cows in Cum- 

 berland (Dickenson), xiii. 259. 



, analysis of fresh, xiii. 490 ; when 



mixed with sulphuric acid, burnt and 

 unburnt, ib. 



useless on the silica strata soils of 



the lower chalk (Paine), xiv. 236. 



used for grass-land with salt, by R. 



Milward, xiv. 430. 



used in Oxfordshire (Read), xv. 242, 



'-, trials with, simple and dissolved, 



for swedes, by Dr. A. Voelcker, xvi. 

 95. 



used for grass-lands in Yorkshire, 



Lancashire, and Cheshire (J. Dixon), 

 xix. 204. 



not universally applicable to mea- 

 dow-land ( Lawes and Gilbert), xix. 573. 



• for agricultural purposes, tl'ieir com- 

 position and treatment (Dr. Voelcker), 

 xxi. 379. 



Book-keeping, J. INIorton's scientific, iii. 

 145. 



BoKTiER, M. B., on the nitrification of the 

 soil, xxiii. 354. 



BoTANV, description of the parts of grass 

 plants (Buckman-, xvii. 169; roots of 

 the wheat plant (Buckman), 172. 



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