110 GExXERAL INDEX TO ROYAL AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



LITHOSPEKNUM. 



sparred floors for cattle, 3 ; vratcr- 

 supply, ib. ; the example farm describe J, 

 ih. ; pumps and apparatus, 4 ; precau- 

 tions, ib. ; proper density of fluid, ih. ; 

 policy of frequent applications, 5 ; 

 angles in i^ipes deprecated, ih. ; dia- 

 gram of irrigated area, G ; arrangement 

 of pipes, ih. ; importance of even dis- 

 tribution, 7 ; size and construction of 

 tanks, 8 ; dressing t^cx acre, 9 ; matters 

 for manure- taidi, «6. ; use of plain water, 

 ih. ; supply per acre, 10 ; cropping, ih. ; 

 management at Cassiobury, 11 ; Italian 

 rye-grass, (quantity consumed by oxen, 

 ib.; the time for cutting, 12; cost of 

 cattle feeding on, 13 ; retmii of solid 

 manure to the faim, 12 ; proper time 

 for irrigation, ih. ; cost of apj)aratus, 

 14; annual working charges, 15; cost 

 of steam-engme (P. II. F.), ih. ; cost of 

 the author's macliinery, interest, and 

 depreciation, IG. 



LiTUospEKNUSi arvense, see " Corn grom- 

 well." 



Little, Edward, of Chippenham, the 

 farming of Wiltshire, a prize report, v. 

 IGl. fe " "Wiltshire." 



LiVEKPOOL meeting, report on the exhi- 

 bition of implements, ii. ciii. 



Liters, small, indicate a tendency to 

 fatten (Karkeek), v. 255. 



Lrv'E Stock, for consumption in the mc- 

 ti-opolis, statistics of (R. Herbert), xix. 

 49G; increase of shorthorns suice 1838, 

 497 ; tables of prices and supplies from 

 1853 to 1858, 499 ; imports from North 

 Germany, xx. 473 ; improvement in 

 Dutch sheep, ih. ; the Irish supplies, 

 474 ; average dead weight of bullocks 

 in 1839 and 1859, 475 ; Dutch bullocks 

 fattened in Norfolk, ih. ; deaths reduced 

 the profit, ih. ; the increased dead 

 weights of sheep, 47G ; the supply of 

 pork, 477 ; stock bought in London for 

 grazing and for country supplies, or 

 left unsold, 478 ; supply of dead meat 

 for the provinces, 479 ; comparative 

 table of supplies and prices, 480 ; causes 

 of scarcity of stock in 1860, xxi. 173 ; 

 increase of cross-bred animals, ib. ; 

 growing demand for animal food, 174 ; 

 the in-and-in system of sheei>breeding, 

 175 ; the forcing system, ib. ; disposal 

 of inferior joints, 176 ; commercial pro- 

 gress in 20 years, ib. ; high price of 

 tallow, ib. ; tables of prices and sup- 

 plies, 177-8 ; success of cross-breed- 

 ing, 381 ; Dutch and German sheep, 

 382 ; price of mutton, ih. ; prevalence 

 of rot, ib. ; suj^plies of stock from 1855 

 to 1860, 383 ; foreign stock, 384 ; aver- 



LI^'E-STOCK, 



age prices of beef and mutton, ih. ; fat- 

 tening of foreign stock in England, 

 xxii. 132 ; Spanish bullocks, ib. ; prices 

 of beef sheep, and mutton (^1861), 133; 

 the lambing season, ih. ; supjslies of 

 stock from 185G to 18G1, and average 

 prices, 134-5; number of cattle iu 

 Holland, ib. ; increase of crosses in the 

 English markets, 413; early maturity, 

 ih.; higli price of mutton, 414; Dutch 

 sheei) and calves ; table of supplies, 

 415 ; average prices, 416 ; increase of 

 Scotch and country-killed meat iu the 

 metro]iohtiin markets, ih. ; comj)arativo 

 immunity of stock from disease in 1861, 

 xxiii. 366 ; table of bullock supplies, 

 367 ; increased weight of sheep, ib. ; 

 fat and wool, 368 ; the lambing season, 

 ih. ; table of meat supplies, ih. ; average 

 prices, 369 ; losses from disease in 1862, 

 xxiv. 206 ; total supplies from 1853 to 

 1862, ih. ; prices of beef and mutton, 

 207 ; district bullock arrivals, 208 ; 

 imports of foreign stock, 209; per- 

 centage of beasts shown in the metro- 

 politan market in 1858 and 1862, 211 ; 

 increase of shortlinrns and crosses, ib. ; 

 sheep supplies, 212 ; increase of cross- 

 breds, ih. ; supplies of stock in early 

 part of 1863, xxiv. 454 ; district supplies 

 and prices of beef and mutton, 456 ; 

 foreign stock, 457 ; value of rough fat, 

 458 ; supplies in last 6 months of 1863, 

 XXV. 243 ; improved condition of sheep, 

 ib. ; arrivals, 244 ; prices, 245 ; impor- 

 tations of foreign and colonial wool, 

 247 ; prices, ih. ; character and supplies 

 of stock in the first half of the year 

 1864, XXV. 382 ; distiict arrivals and 

 prices of meat, 383 ; imports, 384 ; 

 prices of wool, 385. 



Live-Stock, on the situations best ad- 

 apted for, by N. Whitley, xi. 51. 



, at the Lewes exhibition, report of, 



by Samuel Jonas, xiii. 397 ; the num- 

 bers of, shown at the Society "s meet- 

 ings, from Oxford iu 1839 to Lewes in 

 1852, 398. 



, report on the exhibition of, at the 



Gloucester meeting, by K. Milward, 

 xiv. 456. 



, report on the exhibition of, at the 



Carlisle meeting, by W. Simjjson. svi. 

 502. 



, report on the exliibition of, at 



Chelmsford (1856), by Sir S. H. North- 

 cote, Bart., xvii. 563. 



, report on the exhibition of, at 



Chester (1858), by R. Smith, xix. 352 ; 

 Shoiihorns, 364 ; Herefords, 367 ; De- 

 vons, 370 ; ages and girths of the prize 



