12G GENERAL INDEX TO EOYAL AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



SIoRTON, J. C, on the maintenance of fer- 

 tility in new arable land, vii. 283. 



, on increasing our supplies of animal 



food, a prize essay, x. 341. 



, on the cost of horse-power, xix. 



437; the calculations criticised, xxi. 

 418. 



, on the allotment system, xx. 92. 



, on agricultural maxima, xx. 442. 



, on steam culture (P. H. Frcre), xxi. 



401. 



, his paper on Helps and Hindrances 



to Agricultural progress (Tiiompson, 

 M.P.), XXV. 11; his objections to the 

 prize system considered, ib. 



, on the essentials to a young farmer 



(Mr. Holland), xxv. 542. 



MoscKor, W. J., on the results of steam 

 cultivation, P.F., xxiv. 320. 



MosEK, on theory of light, xvii. 422. 



Moss, on its removal from pastures, by 

 R. Smith, ix. 25. 



MossLAXD, on the cultivation of, in Lan- 

 cashire (Garnett), x. 11-25. 



Moths and buttertlies affecting clover 

 (Curtis I, xviii. 49; papilio hyalo on 

 tlie kidney vetch ; Bomhyx trifolii, the 

 grass or clover cggar-moth, 49 ; infests 

 trefoil, shnibs, and trees, 50 ; B. medi- 

 caginis, the medick eggar-moth, checked 

 by parasites, 51 ; Euclidia glypbica, 

 theburnet-moth, 52 ; E. mi, the Shipton- 

 moth. 53. 



• afiecting grass. The antler-moth 



(noctua graminis) described (Curtis;, 

 xviii. 72. 



■ , minute, affecting tares (Curtis), 



xviii. 5G. 



MoiLD-BOARDS, the, in ploughs, on, by 

 r. Pusey, xii. 588. 



MorLDiNEss, Rev. E. Sidney on, x. 383. 



of stacked hay, x. 391, 396. 



of bread and the inside of casks, x. 



396. 



MoruE, Rev. H., his earth system of utU- 

 isuig sewage, xxiv. 111. 



MorxiK, ]M. Emile, his plan of testing 

 milk, xxiv. 316. 



MorTH and foot disease; the murrain 

 of 1839, on (J. B. Simonds), xviii. 

 200. 



jMowixg, prices of taskwork, by N. Eayn- 

 bu-d, ^'ii. 124. 



■ machines, on those at the Salisbury 



meeting (1857\ xviii. 423, 441. 



, those at Leeds (1861), 457. 



Mud used as a manure in the Nether- 

 lands 'Rham', ii. 43. 



• pond, used as a manure with guano, 



&c., for grass-lands, by E. S. Beame, 

 X. 399. 



IMuD on the Trent used for warping ana- 

 Ij-sed, by T. J. Herepath, xi. 97. 



of the Nile analysed, xi. 112. 



, or silt, of the Somersetshire rivers 



(Acland), xi. 741. 



, river, analysis of, xiii. 536, 



MvLDER on the yeast plant, xvii. 82. 



on the generation of chlorophyll 



from starch, xviii. 405. 



on the organic compounds of the 



soil, xxi. 197. 



, his discovery and designation of 



protein, xxii. 385. 



, his analysis of casein, xxiv. 287. 



Mi'LE, the, IMr. Orton on the breeding of, 

 xvi. 43 ; hybrids of various animals, 44. 



, its use in America (C. W. Eddy), 



XX. 124. 



INIujrMY wheat, germination of (Tanner), 

 xxi. 47. 



MiiiLVTE of anmionia, analysis of, xiii. 

 490. 



McRCTnsox, R. I., on the tchornoi gem 

 or black earth of the central regions of 

 Russia, iii. 125. See " Rus.sia." 



, Sir R. I., on the value of certain 



phosphoric rocks in the Anguilla Isles, 

 XX. 31. 



MuuKAix in sheep, J. Seaman on, xvi. 5. 



, F. Dun on, xvi. 408. 



, the, in IMecklenburg (Vice-Consul 



Blackwell), xvii. 331. 



, the steppe (Blackwell), xvii. 332 ; 



its origin, ib. ; symptoms, ih. ; its con- 

 tagious character, 334 ; precautionary 

 measiures, ib. 



, on tho steppe murrain or rinder- 

 pest (J. B. Simonds), xviii. 197 ; ancient 

 records of, ib. ; its fii'st occurrence in 

 England, a.d. 1713, and again in 1744; 

 ib. ; order in council, 198 ; similarity 

 between the vi.sitations of 1744 and 

 1856, 200, see "Mouth and foot dis- 

 ease," and " Pleuro-pncumonia ;" joint 

 action of British societies in 1856; 

 Ml". Ernes 's mission 'to the continent, 

 205 ; the author's mission to Belgium, 

 207 ; and Holland, 208 ; Belgian sani- 

 tary laws, ib. ; the Dutch cattle trade, 

 208, 210 ; illustration of the beneficial 

 results of inspection at the English 

 customs, 209 ; precautionary measures 

 against epizootic disease in Westphalia 

 and Hanover, 211; the system of in- 

 spection adopted at Hamburg, 212; 

 danger of contagious disease from the 

 commerce in hides, 213 ; the steppes 

 of Russia, the seat of the disease, 219 ; 

 supposed to have been introduced into 

 Prussia by a cargo of bones, 224 ; ditto 

 into Silesia by Hungarian cattle and 



