VOLUMES ONE TO TWENTY-FIVE." 



131 



per acre, ih. ; tlio soil deficient in lime, 

 ib. ; cattle, turnip-fed on stubbles, ib. ; 

 mangold exterisively grown, ib. ; couch, 

 ■lb. ; rape followed by turnips generally 

 successful, 272; vetches absorb mois- 

 ture, a bad preparation for turnijjs, 

 ib. ; poppies, how destroyed, v'^. ; fir 

 belts and fences, 273 ; the light 

 chalky loams and their recent im- 

 ]3rovement, ib. ; reduction of fences in 

 West Norfolk, 274; present mode of 

 making and trimming, ib. ■ increase in 

 the wheat yield, ib. ; mode of growing — 

 drilled across the furrow, 275 : nitrate 

 of soda as a top-dressing preferred to 

 guano where cold dry winds prevail, 

 ib. ; cause of the greater breadth of 

 wheat now sown, ib. ; clover sickness, 

 ib. ; growth of sainfoin on the increase, 

 il). ; barley, its yield cannot safely be 

 increased, 27G ; use of superphosphate, 

 ib. ; cold springs and high farming ad- 

 verse to breeding flocks, 277; use of 

 Gardiner's tm-nip-cutter, ib. ; fields 

 l^louglied round lor wheat, the course 

 reversed for fallow, ib. ; cultivators in 

 some cases superseding iiloughs, ib. ; 

 use of artificial manures for corn, 278 ; 

 guano, 279 ; salt, ib. ; implements and 

 machinery, 280 ; thrashing by steam, 

 its cost, ib. ; instance of the durability 

 of a portable engine, ib. ; ploughs, 281 ; 

 demand for Howard's plough after 

 taking the prize at Norwich, ib. ; 

 Chandler's water drill and manure dis- 

 tributor, ib. ; steam cultivation not yet 

 considered economical, 282 ; Coleman's 

 cultivator preferred, though dear, ib. ; 

 autumn cultivation, 283; on friable 

 land, if clean, stubble should be left till 

 winter, ib. ; forking couch, its cost, 

 284 ; the 5-course rotation a success at 

 Castle Acre, ib. ; harvesting, 285 ; 

 cattle — improvement in shorthorns and 

 Irish, ib. ; losses from plemo-pneu- 

 monia, 286 ; consumption of turnips, 

 ib. ; economy of pulping, ib. ; linseed 

 cake, cotton cake, treacle, locust-beans, 

 &c., used lor stock, 287 ; pure Norfolk 

 sheep nearly extinct, 2SS ; their good 

 points, ib. ; improved Suff"olks, ^7). ; 

 half-breds from long-woolled sires, ib. ; 

 cart-horses, then- number and keep, 28!) ; 

 want of veterinary surgeons, 290 ; rents, 

 their increase, 291 ; in the East from 5 

 to 12 per cent., in the West, 10 to 15, 

 ib. ; com rent at Holkham, ib. ; wages 

 and taskwork, expenditure on labour 

 increased 20 per cent., 292 ; open 

 parishes, ib. ; state of the poor, 293 ; 

 game, fourfooted, its diminution, ib, ; 



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covenants or valuations, prices too high, 

 ib.; entry of farms should be at New 

 Michaelmas, 294; tm-nips not an im- 

 proved crop, ib. ; increase of mangold 

 and cabbages, 295 ; the " thousand- 

 headed" cabbage preferred for ewes 

 and lambs, ib. ; cattle-yards, ib. ; marl- 

 ing, 29(j; drovers superseded by rail, for 

 fat cattle, ib. ; the ' Quarterly Review ' 

 on agricultural progress, 297 ; statistics 

 of 1853 and 1854 contrasted, ib. ; Nor- 

 wich com returns in 1805 and 1857, 

 300 ; cattle imported, ditto sold at Lynn 

 market, 301 ; poor-rates, their reduction, 

 ib. ; property-tax assessments, ib. ; esti- 

 mate of the value of live and dead stock 

 (subsequently corrected, P. H. F.), 302 ; 

 the present race of farmers, ib. ; conclu- 

 sion, ib. — Appendix: on the use of 

 nitrate of soda for wheat at Holkham, 

 303 ; experiments in turnip growing, 

 306 ; guano, with the water-di-ill, must 

 be applied sparingly, ib. ; if water is at 

 hand, the expense small, ib. ; tables of 

 produce from various manures, 807 ; 

 analyses of the manures, 310. 



Norfolk, on the geology of, as illustrating 

 the laws of the distribution of soils, by 

 J. Trimmer, vii. 444 ; the crag, 458 ; 

 the freshwater-beds, 459; the lower and 

 uppcrdrift, 461 ; the peat, 474; alluvial 

 district of East Norfolk, 472 ; of West 

 Norfolk, 477 ; fossil manures of Norfolk, 

 478. 



, the chalks of, described by J, Trim- 

 mer, xii. 480. 



, tlie farming of the light soils of 



(Haxton), xv. 115; its difterent rota- 

 tions compared, 116. 



Down sheep, the, J. Wilson on, xvi. 



234. 



NoKTHAMPTON meeting, report of the 

 stewards of the implements exhibited 

 at, viii. 330. 



NonTiiAMPTONSHrRE, ou the farming of, 

 by AV. Beam, a prize essay, xiii. 44 ; 

 its soils — tlie lower oolite, 48 ; the Has, 

 ib. ; division of its soils and subsoils, 

 49 ; the management of its red stony 

 and sandy soils, on which are its stock 

 farms, 52 ; its rotation of crops, ib. ; its 

 turnip crops, ib. ; its barley crops, 56, 

 59 ; its clover-seeds, 57 ; the wheat 

 crop, 58, 59 ; the management of the 

 heavy soils, 61; its rotations, ib.; fal- 

 lows, 62 ; its root crops, ib. ; its corn 

 crops, 64 ; wliite mustard grown and 

 ploughed in as manme, cows fond of, 

 67 ; the management of the moory and 

 peaty soils, 69; its rotations, 70; the 

 horses, 71; the implements, 72; ma- 

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