122 GENEEAL INDEX TO EOYAL AGRICULTUEAL JOURX.VL. 



wheat, 125 ; reaping, ib. • harvest 

 work, 126 ; hoeing, ib. ; carrots, beets, 

 wheat, 127 ; harvesting, 12S ; root- 

 crops, «6.; clibhling, ib.; hauhning, 129; 

 paring and burning, ib. ; plougliiug, 

 130 ; thatching, 131 ; tUtching and 

 fencing, ib. ; lineal measiu-e, table of, 

 ib.; di-aining, 132; cubic measure, table 

 of, 133 ; lilting farmyard dung, 134 ; 

 tui'ning over manure-heaps, 135; bui-n- 

 ing peat-ashes, 13(! ; thrashing wheat 

 and barley, 137 ; table of corn-measure, 

 13ti ; tiTissmg hay, 138 ; shearing sheei), 

 ib. 



BIeascee, Lord Portman on, vii. 140. 



Measuring cattle, the method of, by 

 C. Hilyartl, iii. 337. 



Meat, annual consumption of, by an 

 adult pursou (Way), xii. 585. 



, Sir C. Lemon on the consumption 



of, in France, i. 414 ; in England, 415. 



■ , supplies of England and France 



(Lavergne), xvii. 37. 



, imports of, in 1S55-G, xix. 220. 



Mechi, J. J., on burning clay, vii. 2'.)7 ; 

 ou its subsequent manuiing effects, 

 xiv. 224. 



, on tliin sowing, vii. 537. 



, analyses of his manure (Dr. 



Voelckcr), xix. 535. 



, Alderman, his liquid manm'c and 



soil tested (Yoelckerj, xx. 154 ; power 

 of soil to retain ammonia, xxi. 117. 



, on the use of green-ix)dded beans 



as food for stock, xxv. 508. 



Meciojixbcrg, rural economy of, by 

 J. S. Carr, i. 124 ; size of its fiirms, its 

 climate, the haken, ib.; wooden-teethed 

 harrows, ib ; its system of cultivation, 

 125 ; rape gi-own, use of gj^psum, 125 ; 

 rape-oil used for lamps, ib. ; a re- 

 munerating ci'op, ib. ; rotation of crops, 

 ib. ; manures, marl, use of, 126 ; pond- 

 mud and peat, ib. ; breed of horses, ib. ; 

 oxen cm))loyed, ib. ; dairy cows, 127 ; 

 iSaxon or Merino sheep, ib. ; first intro- 

 duced into Germany, ib. ; calculation 

 of the profit of a farm, 129; farm 

 servants, ib. ; their wages, ib. ; valuation 

 of tUffereut fleeces of wool, 131. 



Medicago lupulina, see " Black medick." 



sativa, see " Lucem." 



Meetings of Royal Agricultural Society, 

 report ou the exhibition of implements 

 at Liveipool, ii. citi. 



• Bristol, ii. 338. 



Derby, iv. 453. 



Southampton, v. 301. 



Shrewsbury, vi. 303. 



Ni/wca.stle,'vii. 681. 



Xorthampton, vui. 330. 



BlEETiyGS of Eoyal Agricultiu-al Society, 



rei^ort on the exhibition of imi^lements 



at York, ix. 377. 



Norwich, x. 526. 



Exeter, xi. 452. 



(the works of all nations, 1851), xii. 



587. 



Lewes (1S52\ xiii. 301. 



Gloucester (1853), xiv. 343. 



Lincoln (1854), xv. 363. 



Carlisle (1855', xvi. 505. 



Chelmsford (1856), xvii. 564. 



Salisbury (1857), xviii. 415. 



Cliester (,ls5S), xix. 311. 



Warwick (1859), xx. 313. 



Canterbury (,1860), xxi. 488. 



Leeds (1861', xxii. 450. 



Battersea (1862), xxiii. 395. 



Worcester (1863), xxiv. 480, 487. 



Newcastle (1864), xxv. 391. 



Melamiyulm arvcnse, see "Purple cow- 

 wheat." 

 IMicLiLOTis leucautha major, see " Clover, 



Bokhara." 

 IMei.i.owness of feel explained, iv. 263. 

 i\lE.MiiEus of K. A. S., list of, xiv. xxiv., 



and xxii. x.wii. ; AppentUx, xxv. 

 jMenteath, Sir J. S., ou Scotch fir and 



lurch, ix. 372. 

 Mentii.\ arvcnsis, see " Corn mint." 

 Mekino sheep, the, of Germany, i. 127 



theii' wool, 131. 



, of France, xiv. 215 ; crossmg of, ib. 



, J. Wilson on, xvi. 238. 



, of Denmark, xxi. 3U6. 



]\Iei!(jde's auidysis of Loire water, xxii. 



432. 

 Meslin, the "metail" of Flanders (rye 



and wheat), sometimes sown together 



rliham), iii. 249. 

 Metayek system in France, xxiv. 19. 

 31ETE0U0L0GY of Dcvonsiure (Tanner), 



ix. 456. 

 in connexion with agriculture (Lord 



Lovelace), ix. 311. 

 , on the climate of the British islands 



in its effects on cultivation, by N. 



Whitley, xi. 1. See "Climate." 



, P. Pusey on, xi. 392. 



, B. Simpson on, xi. 617. 



of England (J. Glaisher), for the 



quarter ending 31 March, 1857, xviii. 



p. II. ; 30 June, iv. ; 30 September, x. ; 



31 December, xn. ; 1858, xix. pp. ii. 



and X. ; 1859, xx. pp. ii. and x. ; i860, 



x.vi. pp. u. and x. ; 1861, xxii. ii. and 



X. ; 1862, xxiii. ii. and iv. ; 1863, xxiv. 



II. and X. ; 1864, xxv. n. and x. 

 Mica, analysis of, xiii. 532 ; xvii. 463. 

 Mice and rats, mode of destroying, by 



J. S. Carr, iii. 428. 



