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GENERAL INDEX TO ROYAL AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



GRASSHOrrERS. 



(Lawes and Gilbert), xxiv. 131 ; re\dcw 

 of former experiments, ib. ; present 

 method of experimenting, 133 ; classifi- 

 cation of graminaceous herbage, by 

 BIi-. Sutherland, 134 ; mode ef taking 

 samples, ib.; numerical resnli.s of the 

 inquiry, 135 ; see also table opposite 

 104 ; details of manuring dilierent 

 plots, 136 ; description and jjerceutagc 

 of kinds and species of herbage in 

 relation to maniu'cs and crops, 138-42 ; 

 the standard of comparison, 142 ; cftect 

 of ammonia salts and mineral manure 

 including silicates, ib. ; ditto, includ- 

 ing potass, y'^. ; ditto, with sawdust, 

 excluding potass, ib. ; ditto, with cut 

 ■wheat-straw, ib. ; adaptation of nitrate 

 of soda for leguminous plants, 143 ; 

 graminaceaj increased by ammonia and 

 farmyard manm-e, ib. ; elfects of mixed 

 minerals, ib. ; supcrjihosphate, 141 ; 

 ammonia salts, ib. ; sawdust alone, and 

 mixed with other maniues, 145 ; de- 

 scription and percentage of predomi- 

 nating species, in relation to manure 

 and yield, table, 146; the unmanured 

 produce, 148 ; elfects of mineral ma- 

 nure alone, 150 ; ammonia salts, 151 ; 

 nitrate of soda, 152 ; farmyard, 153 ; 

 farmyard manru'c and ammonia salts, 

 154 ; ammonia salts and superphos- 

 phates, 155 ; nitrate of soda and mixed 

 mineral manure, ib. ; annuonia salts and 

 minerals, 157 ; tendency to develop- 

 ment of leaf or stem, and order of ripe- 

 ness, 158 ; comparison of results with 

 those from sewage-manure at Rugby, 

 160; herbage of Edinlnngh sewage 

 meadows, 161 ; limitations to forcing 

 hay crops, ib, ; results, 161-4 ; table, 

 164. 



Grasshoppers, aecoimt of (Curtis), xviii. 

 76. 



Grate, the Newark cottage range, xvii. 

 500 ; Pearce's ventilating, 502. 



GkauwacivE soils, those of Cornwall de- 

 scribed by W. F. Karkeek, vi. 408. 



rocks, analysis of, xiii. 534. 



soils, analysis of, xiii. 544. 



Gravel soils of the new marl and the 

 new red sandstone of Derbysliire (J. 

 Rowley), xiv. 58. 



■ of Buckinghamshire (C. Read), xvi. 



273. 



Gray, John, on the growth of white mus- 

 tard as a green crop for sheep, v. 360. 



Grazixg valleys, the, of the North-east of 

 Yorkshire (M. Milburn), ix. 514. 



• in Buckinghamshii-e (C. Read), xvi. 



293. 



Grease in horses (F. Dun), xiv. 122. 



GRIEVE. 



Greavtes, W., on nitrate of soda as a 



manure, ii. 137. 

 Green dust, see "Protococcus viridis." 



manure, on tlie use of the wliife 



mustard crop as, by T. C. Bui-roughes, 

 vii. 33. 



, white mustard used for this pin-}iosc 



in Northamptonshire (H. Beam), xiii. 

 67. 



, n'e sometunos ploughed in for root- 

 crops in Surrey (S. Evershed), xiv. 85. 



sides, on an economical mode of 



forming, by C. B. Challoner, ii. 363. 



rose-chafer (.J. Cm-tis), iii. 317. 



Gi!EEXsand formation, that of Kent de- 

 scribed, by G. Buckland, vi. 270. 

 of Lincolnshire, on, by J. A. Clarke, 



xii. 26;i. 

 , analysis of upper and lower, xiii. 



536. 

 , marls of lower and upper, from 



Faniham, analysed, xiii. 536. 

 , analysis of the fossils in the ujiper, 



xiii. .536. 

 of SuiTcy, the farmifig of (Evershed), 



xiv. 410. 



of Oxfordshire (Read), xv. 194, 195. 



of Buckinghamshire (C. Read), xvi. 



276, 277 ; the lower greensand, ib. 

 , ])hosphoric acid in, xvii. 461) ; phos- 



phatic i)ebbles in (Henslow), ib. 

 Greenstone rock, analysis of, xiii. 534. 



, analysis of soils of, xiii. 544. 



, the farming of the light .soils of (J. 



Haxton), xv. 'J3. 

 Greenweed, dyer's, or woad waxen, its 



soils and habits (Buckman), xvi. 360. 



needle, or petty whin (Buckman\ 



xvi. 360. 



Greenwich Hospital forms in North- 

 umberland (J. Grey), ii. 160. 



Gregory, Mr. T., on Keevil's cheese- 

 making apparatus, xxi. 73. 



Grey, Governor, account of a reaping- 

 machine invented iu Australia, v. 284. 



Grey, J., of Dilstone, on nitrate of soda 

 as a manure, ii. 134. 



, view of the past and present state 



of the agi-icidture of Northumberland, 

 151. See "Northumberland." 



, on farm-buildings, iv. 1. See "Fann- 



buildings." 



, account of some expeiiments with 



guano and other manures on turnips, 

 iv. 211. 



, on the building of cottages for 



farm-labourers, v. 237. See " Cot- 

 tages." 



, on the responsibility of parents in 



the matter of education, xxv. 541. 



Gpje^"e, J. H., on an improvement in the 



