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wheat-crop (Lawes and Gilbert), xvii. 

 591 ; mineral and organic manures con- 

 trasted (Voeleker), xviii. 347 ; minerals 

 more serviceable to barley than wheat 

 (Lawes), xviii. 512. 



Minerals, their action on meadows (Lawes 

 and Gillicrt), xix. 562. 



manures, their action in the forcing 



climate of the North American States 

 (Eussell), XX. 4S9. 



Mining, its influence on agriculture 

 (Durham), xvii. 95. 



MissELTOE, its habits (Buckman), xvi. 

 362 ; its injurious effect upon apple- 

 trees, 374. 



Missouri showyard, on the (Hon. IM. B. 

 Portman), xviii. 417. 



Mists, N. Whitley on, xi. 27. 



, B. Simpson on, xi. 632. 



Mitchell, J., on Eugby sewage, xxii. 94. 



MoLE-CBiCKET, ou the, by J. Curtis, vii. 

 432. 



Molinia coerulea (melica), see "Puri^le 

 melic-grass." 



IMoll's process of j^reserviug timber (Dr. 

 Eichardson), xx. 7. 



MoLLEBART, a levelling implement of the 

 Dutch farmer (Eham), ii. 61. 



IMoNCK, J. B., on the management of a 

 suburban farm, a jirize essay, xxv. 327 ; 

 monthly calendar of operations on the 

 farm (Eev. W. H. Beevor), xviii. 331. 



MoNTc's Island guano (Dr. Voeleker), xxi. 

 361. 



Moody, Lieut.-Govcrnor, on the tussae- 

 grass of the Falkland Islands, iv. 17, 

 vii. 72. See " Tussac-grass."' 



, further account of the tussac-grass, 



v. 50. 



IiIooN, its influence on the weather and 

 on agricultural operations (Lord Love- 

 lace), ix. 339. 



BIooRE, E. W., experiments by, on the 

 feeding qualities of difterent breeds of 

 sheep, vii. 294. 



, experiments by, in cattle-feeding, 



xvii. 342. 



(E. D.), on millr, xxiii. 418. 



]MooELAND, see " Heathland." 



, on the application of clay to, iii. 427. 



, on bringuig into cultivation (E. 



Smith), xvii. 349 ; more suitable for 

 cultivation tlian planting, ib. ; only to 

 be effected by co-oi)eration of landlord 

 and tenant, ih. ; or aid from improve- 

 ment companies, 350 ; fern, broom, and 

 heather indicate turniji-land, ib. ; Eng- 

 lish fens, 351 ; Irish bog and peat 

 lands, extent of, ib. ; marshes and 

 wolds, 352 ; preliminaries to cultiva- 

 tion, 353 ; effect of climate and alti- 



tude, ib; temperatm'e affected by 

 swamps, 354 ; arable and stock farms, 

 "summering" lands, and water-mea- 

 dows, 355 ; size of fields, 356 ; subsoil- 

 ing a substitute for drainage, ib. ; jilaii of 

 farm, 357 ; cost of buildings governed 

 by acreage, 358 ; plan and cost of 

 ditto for 300 acre farm, 359 ; linhay 

 or cattle-shed, plan and cost of, 360 ; 

 building plans should be capable of 

 enlargement, 361 ; fences, 362 ; one- 

 sided stone fences, 363 ; double stone 

 fences, surrounded by wattles and 

 beech-trees, cost of (illustration), 364 ; 

 liedges on the flat, 365; Lincolnshire 

 fences, quick between sod banks, 366 ; 

 letting of moorland under special agree- 

 ments, 367; form of agreement with 

 compensation clauses, 368; cb'ainage, 

 370 ; dip of strata, 371 ; open cut for 

 s^jrings, ib. ; plan and cost of tapping 

 springs, 372 ; horizontal and upright 

 drains, 373 ; stone ditto, 374 ; jieats 

 and "flow" mosses, 374 ; crops for re- 

 claimed bogs, 375 ; use of lime and 

 salt, ib. ; water, if not from peat, useful 

 for irrigation, 376 ; " breaking the jDan," 

 ib. ; test-holes, ib. ; water a carrier for 

 warping low lands, 377 ; draining, 

 trencliing, and liming for rape, more 

 costly than warping, 378 ; cultivation 

 of natm-al soil, Lincoln Heath, 379 ; 

 paring and burning, ib. ; cost of culti- 

 vation, ib. ; on high lands, turnips 

 followed by grasses sown with rape, 

 381 ; 4 years' layer, composition of, 

 382 ; stock on Exmoor Forest, charges 

 for " summering," 383 ; catch meadows, 

 384 ; outlying stock farms, how ma- 

 naged, 385 ; cost of subsoiling after 

 ploughing, 386 ; trenching, aided by 

 paring i)lough, 387 ; ox labour, ib. ; 

 estimate of outlay and returns, 388 ; 

 improved value of reclaimed land, 389 ; 

 cost of grubbing heath and furze laud, 

 390 ; moorland soil, analysis of, 391 ; 

 its want of lime, ib. ; fens in the eastern 

 counties clayed by pits, 393. 



MooR-rAN, analysis of a specimen of, 

 from Argyleshire, xiii. 554. 



Morayshire Farmers' Club, report of 

 committee of, on the growth of turnips 

 with new manures, v. 447. 



SIoETON, John, on the mode of cultivatiou 

 adopted at Stinchcombe Farm, i. 388. 



, J., jun., on the present state of agri- 

 cultural mechanics, prize essay, iii. 101 . 



— — , .1. C, on the white Belgian carrot, 

 ii. 40. 



, trials in the fattening of some pigs, 



iv. 233. 



