VOLUMES OXE TO TWENTY-FIVE. 



119 



acre, ih. ; ]\Ir. Blundell's carrots, 37 tons 

 12f cwt. per acre, 4i5 ; Mr. Wilkinson's 

 wheat, 11 qrs. 2 biisli. per acre (ISl-l), 

 ib. ; his average yield, 447 ; Mr. Wil- 

 son's (Eddington Mains), crops of oats, 

 beans, barley, and wheat, ib. ; oats on 

 Whittield farm, 131 qrs. per acre, 448 ; 

 value of lime on sandy soil, ib. ; man- 

 gold (]Mr. Smith, Woolston), 55 tons per 

 acre. Col. Noi-th, 64 tons ; potatoes (ilr. 

 Simpson, Teawig), 14| tons per acre 

 nearly, 450 ; Mr. Grey (Dilston), on the 

 value of autumn preparation for, 451 ; 

 and of seed set in spring with shade. 

 ib.; rye-grass (Mr. Telfer), SO to 100 

 tons in two years, 452 ; wheat, at Lois 

 Weedon, ib. ; subdivision and admixture 

 of manure as well as of soil to be sought, 

 453. 

 Maxims of the Dutch farmers, see " Agri- 

 culture of Netherlands." 



in feeding live stock, see " Food of 



live stock." 



, " the last food pays best," iv. 264. 



, the error of Arthur Young, when 



he said of Lincohi heath, " very little 



remains to do," iv. 302. 

 , " every blackcock killed by its 



owner on Exmoor costs more than a 



full-fed ox," iv. 309. 

 , the Spanish saying, " wherever the 



fodt of the sheep touches the land is 



turned into gold," vi. 5. 

 ' , "grass should be 12 hours old for 



a sheep and 12 days for a bullock," xii. 



387. 



in Cumberland, " more dejiends on 



the rearing of stock than the kinds of 

 stock," xiii. 253; "the laziest sliep- 

 hed has always the best dog," 270 ; 

 the old and bad farmer's axiom, " switch 

 is the mother of grass," 273. 



on the Derbyshire heavy soils, 



" plough dee^D to find the gold," xiv. 



2S. 

 , a Suri'ey maxim, " all stock from its 



buih to its death should be constantly 



fattening as well as growing," xiv. 84. 

 ' , an old exploded Surrey, " bailey 



after mowing must be exposed to nine 



dews," xiv. 87. 

 ' , " the worse bred the female, the 



more likely is the offspring to resemble 



a well-bred sire," Lord Speucer, xiv. 



223. 

 , "substances strengthen vegetation 



mainly by their contents of nitrogen," 



P. Pusey, xiv. 377. 

 , " like produces like," the breeder's 



axiom, on, by F. Dun, xvi. 40 (H. 



Tanner), xxii. 1. 



Maxims, " no foot no horse " (W. MUes), 

 xviii. 271. 



, " tit the shoe to the foot not tho 



foot to the shoe" (W. Miles), xviii. 

 2S3. 



, " ammonia the spirit of the farm " 



(Huxtable), xviii. 330. 



, " the sheep has a foot of gold, and 



turns to gold whatever it touches," Per- 

 sian proverb, xix. 253. 



, " the underwood will buy the horse, 



the wood the saddle," see " Hampshire 

 farming," xxii. 308. 



, " better to have muck in the stook 



than muck in the stack," xxiii. 214. 



, " blood gives pace, pace is power " 



(Dickinson), xxiv. 269. 



Maxwell, A. S., on portable manures and 

 th.eir home manufacture, xxiii. 270. 



IMeadows, see "Grass-lands." 



in Oxfordshire subject to floods 



(Read), xv. 219. 



, the weeds of (Buckmau), xvi. 379. 



floated, in Warwickshu-e, xvii. 489. 



, mode and management of (Horsfall), 



xviii. 18] ; first and second mowings, 

 when and their yield, ib. ; rapid growth 

 of cocksfoot grass, 182. See " Hay- 

 making." 



, manures for (Lawes and Gilbert), 



xix. 552 ; reference to former articles 

 by various writers, 553 ; the quality as 

 well as quantity of permanent grass 

 influenced by culture, ib. ; action of 

 special manures on grasses and legumes, 

 554 ; distinction between annuals and 

 perennials, ib. ; experiments described, 

 and former treatment of tlie land, 555 ; 

 no new seeds sown, ib. ; manures ai^plied 

 and date of their application, 556 ; de- 

 scription of crop taken, 557 ; table of 

 produce of hay with dift'erent manures, 

 558 ; the hay crop how influenced by 

 the season, 555-7 ; the average hay crop 

 a sufficient test of manm-e emijloyed, 

 5G0 ; tiie results not disturbed by sheep 

 feeding, ib. ; the unmanured plot shaded 

 by trees, ib. ; sawdust of no avail, 561 : 

 grasses increased by ammonia, ih. ; le- 

 gumes increased by minerals, 562 ; com- 

 bined action of ammonia and minerals, 

 ib.; ammonia more required by grass 

 than by grain crops, ib.; eat v/neat- 

 straw inoperative as manure, 563 ; eftect 

 of minerals witii double supply of am- 

 monia in producing rank growth, 564 ; 

 iiitrate of soda, tried one year, less 

 efi'eetual than ammonia, 565 ; chy sub- 

 stance of hay, its higli percentage of 

 nitrogen, 566 ; farmyard manure, ib. ; 

 both its minerals and ammonia opera- 



