VOLUMES ONE TO TWENTY-FIVE. 



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FARMYARD. 



heaps, and the absorbing properties of 



■ soils (Dr. Voelcker), xviii. Ill; the smell 

 of dung-hills when turned, iDroceeds 

 from various gases besides ammonia, 

 120 ; on the use of salt and lime, 121 ; 

 fresh manure may be spread at once, 

 except on sandy soils, 139. 



Farmyard manure (J. B. Lawes), xxiii. 

 45 ; table of matters annually entering 

 into home manures of a farm, ib. ; 

 constituents of undecomposed farmyard 

 manm-e, 46 ; analyses by Boussingault 

 and Voelcker, ib. ; causes of waste and 

 variations in value, 47 ; relation of 

 farmyard manure to artificial fertihsers, 

 tb. ; table of composition of various 

 kinds of agricultm-al produce, 48. 



and cattle-box manure, their rela- 

 tive value (C. Lawrence), xviii. 368. 



Farncombe, Jolm, on the farming of 

 Sussex, a prize report, xi. 75. See 

 " Sussex." 



Farrier, average bills of, on a farm, xix. 

 454. 



Fasciola hepatica, the liver fluke, xxiii. 

 93. 



Fat is found in certain vegetable sub- 

 stances, iv. 233 ; effect of oil-cake in 

 producing fat, 232. 



and muscle, an essay on, by W. F. 



Karkeek, prize essay, v. 245 ; growth of 

 plants and animals, 246 ; comparative 

 analyses of hay, oats, beans, beef, and 

 potatoes, ib. ; elements of nutrition, 

 247 ; elements of respiration, ib. ; pro- 

 teine, 248 ; vegetable fibrine, ib. ; vege- 

 table albumen, ib. ; vegetable caseine, 

 ib. ; the proportion of these found in 

 the common crojjs of the field, 249 ; the 

 proportion of starch, gum, and sugar, 

 contained in any separate article of food, 

 with regard to the fat and tallow which 

 it is capable of yielding, ib. ; the gluten, 

 albumen, and caseine in food, as an in- 

 dication of its muscle or flesh-forming 

 principle, ib. ; the process by which 

 ' the metamorphoses of these materials 

 is accompUshed, ib. ; chyme, digestion, 

 ib. ; chyle, ib. ; the passing of the 

 blood through the lungs, 250 ; the car- 

 bon of the food, its conversion to car- 

 bonic acid, ib. ; i>roduction of heat, 251 ; 



' the varying consumption of oxygen gas, 

 ib. ; influence of temperature on the 

 consumption of food, ib. ; examples, 

 ib. ; rest with warmth as an equivalent 

 for food, 252 ; examples, rearing of 

 calves in Holland, stall-fed cows, ib. ; 

 suckling of Dorsetshire house lambs, 

 253 ; the production of fat, ib. ; the 

 external and internal fat, 254; ex- 

 VOLS. I. — XXV. 



FATTENING. 



amples of internal fat in peculiar breeds, 

 255 ; the milking qualities of, and in- 

 side fat, ib. ; animals possessing small 

 lungs, small livers, and small spleens, 

 their disposition to fatten, ib. ; external 

 signs of early maturity, 259 ; the touch, 

 ib. • smalliiess of bone, 260 ; the size of 

 the head, ib. ; the ears, ib. ; the horns, 

 ib. ; a thin neck, ib. ; the rearing de- 

 partment, 261 ; acreable table of nutri- 

 tion, 263 ; the food of pigs, 265. 



Fat, on the fatty matters in the natural 

 and artificial grasses, by J. T. Way, 

 xiv. 173, 177, 179, 180. 



, its production from sugar and 



starch (Horsfall), xviii. 167. 



Fat hen, the (Buckman), xvi. 364. 



Fattening cattle, relation of theh live to 

 their dead weight (Horsfall), xviii. 161 

 the increase in weight all gain, ib. 

 their excrements, analysis of, 164 

 loss of nitrogen caused by excess of 

 albmninous food, 166 ; value of manure 

 regulated by the mode of feeding, 167 ; 

 etficacy of sugar and starch in pro- 

 ducing fat, ib. ; trial of turnips and 

 straw by Mr. Hope, Fenton Barns, ib. ; 

 manure converts store into fattening 

 pasture, 169 ; fat aids digestion (Leh- 

 mann), 170 ; the author's practice based 

 on the relative values of food, 173, see 

 " Feeding value ;" Indian meal and the 

 carob bean compared, ib., see " Eape- 

 cake." 



Fattening of oxen, reports of experiments 

 on, at Woburn Park (J. B. Lawes and 

 Dr. Gilbert), xxii.200 ; the box system 

 of feeding, 201 ; tables of results, 

 203-9 ; relation of increase to food con- 

 sumed by Herefords and Devons, 210 ; 

 experiments with Herefords, ib. ; 

 comparative productiveness of crushed 

 cake and linseed compound, 211 ; cook- 

 ing, 212 ; comparison of Woburn results 

 with those of Colonel M'Dougall and 

 Mr. Templeton, 213 ; average results 

 of liberal feeding, 214; comparison 

 between oxen, sheep, and pigs, their 

 powers of assimilation and respira- 

 tion, their extent of intestinal surface, 

 and consumption of dry substance of 

 food, 215 ; manure, 216 ; table of food, 

 litter, dung, ib. ; proportion of maniure 

 to food consumed, 217 ; daily allow- 

 ance of straw and yield of dung, 218. 



Fattening bullocks on arable farms, P. D. 

 (Mr. Blundell), xxiii 478; conditions 

 to be observed, ib. ; cost of feeding, 

 479 ; analysis of results, ib. ; cost of 

 summer feeding, ib.; winter feeding, 

 480 ; regulation of food allowance, ib. ; 



