loG GENERAL INDEX TO EOYAL AGRICULTUILYL JOURNAL. 



storcd-up food, ib. ; relation of tat 

 stored up in the increase of pigs to 

 ready-formed fat in the food (tables), 

 480 ; explanation, 479 ; sources of fat, 

 starch, sugar, and i)eetinp, y7). ; relation 

 of diy matter in food to dry animal in- 

 crease, 481 ; fat jiroduced from other 

 constituents, 482 ; iiow to estimate tiie 

 value of food stuffs, ?7>. ; conclusions, 

 483 ; proportion of f(X)d to live weight 

 of animals, ih. ; dry substance iu dif- 

 ferent kinds of food, 484 ; proportion of 

 l)arts of animals, ib. ; tiieir cliemical 

 composition, 48.") ; composition of in- 

 crease and relation of its constituents 

 to that of constituents consumed, 

 48G-7. 



Oxen, the teeth of (8imonds\ xv. 312. 



Ox-EYK, the white, it^ soils and liabita 

 (Buckman), xvi. iJG2. 



— —, ti:e yellow, xvi. 302, 



Ox-ri.ES», analysis of, eee " Food of live 

 stock." 



Oxi'OiJD clay form:ttion, the, of Lincoln- 

 shire (Clarku „ xii. 2f,'.». 



clay formation of Uxrordshirc (Head), 



XV. 197. 



clay formation of Buckinghamshiro 



(Read), xvi. 280, 282. 



OxFOKDSiiiUE, on the farming of, a prize 

 report, by Clare S. Head. xv. 189; 

 markets of, 190 ; climate, il>. ; rainfall, 

 191: temperature, ib.; the geology of, 

 ib.; the chalk, 192; the lower chalk, 

 194; the grecnsand, 194, 195; the 

 gault, 195: the Kinnneridgc clay, 190; 

 coral nig, ib. ; Oxford clav, 197 ; fMilite, 

 197-199; the lias, 199;' tiie plastic 

 clav. 192 ; intermittent springs of the 

 eha"lk, 193; the stonebrash, 197; the 

 red-laud, 199 ; rotation of crops, 201 ; 

 in the Cliiltern district, 203 ; in the 

 mixed soils, ib. ; on the stonebi-ash, ib. ; 

 ou the red soils, 204 ; on strn-k lands, 

 fl>. ; Aveeds of the county, 200 ; growth 

 of turuii)s and swedes, 207 ; mangold- 

 wiu-tzel, 208 ; mustard, 209 ; cabbages, 

 ib. ; fallows ou the clay hinds, ib. ; 

 wheat, 211; the bliglit or mildew, 212 ; 

 the wheat-midge, 213 ; barky and oats, 

 214 ; clover, 215 ; winter bean, ib. ; flax, 

 216; sainfoin, 217; ])aring and buni- 

 hig, 219; meadows near the rivers 

 subject to floods, ib. ; the Thame, 221 ; 

 the Cherwell, 222; the cattle, ib.; 

 cows, 224 ; calves, 225 ; the sliwp, 227; 

 the Down-Cotswold sheep, 228 ; ram- 

 breeders, 230; the pigs, 235; horses, 

 237; plougliing, 238; manures, ib.; 

 bones, 242 ; stiperphosphate of lime, 

 ib. ; woollen refuse, 244 ; ashes, 245 ; 



luue, ib. ; implements, ib. ; ploughs, 

 240; lian-ows, ib.; waggon.s, ib.; the 

 Oxfordshire (bag, 247 ; Otmoor, 251 ; 

 Wychwood forest, ib. ; the Cliiltern 

 beech-woods, 253 ; farm-buildings, 254 ; 

 the farms, 257 ; tenancies, 259 ; the 

 tithes, 200 ; labourers, 203 ; cottages, 

 204 ; draining, 200. 



OxFoiu3SHiuE sheep, new, sprung from the 

 Cotswolds (Rowlandson), x. 436; (S. 

 Druce), xiv. 211; xx. 309; (W. Spooncr), 

 XX. 309 ; (K. Smith), xx. 344. 



Oxides of iron (Hennning), xiii. 430. 



OxvGEXE, the chemical properties of 

 (Hemming), xiii. 425. 



OzoxE (.Jamiesou), xvii. 427 ; its compf>- 

 sition according to Schonbein, 429 ; 

 purifies tlie air-, ib. 



P. 



Pace, T., rejKu-t of an cxperuncnt with 

 special manures on the growth of turnips 

 (bones, guano, turf-ashes, the nitrates, 

 &c.., viii. 57. 



Paget, C, on tlic cultivation of mangold- 

 wurtzel, xxii. 403. 



, A., on accidents through farm- 

 machinery, XXV. 352. 



Pain, T., his report on the hacks antl 

 huntei-3 at the Leeds meeting, xxii, 

 225. 



Paine, J. M., on the phosphoric strata of 

 the chalk fonnatif)n, ix. 50. 



, and J. T. Way, on the chemical and 



agricultural characters of the chalk for- 

 mation, xii. 544. 



. and J. T. Way, on the silica stratii 



of the lower chalk, xiv. 225. 



, his selection of drainage-wat<'r at 



Farnham, for analysis by J. T. Way, 

 xvii. 131. 



Palin, William, on the fannhig of 

 Cheshire, prize report, v. 57. See 

 " Cheshire." 



Palis&y, Bernard, on the use of calcareous 

 manures, xxiii. 354. 



Pauiatin, one of the constituents of butter 

 (Voelcker), xxiv. 291. 



Palmek-stox, Lord, his Hampshire cot- 

 tages and aniiugements for letting, xxii. 

 278. 



, letter from, rm the influence of 



recent drainage works on the climate 

 and water supply of the Test valle}', 

 xxii. 340. 



Pai'aver argemone, see " Poppy, prickly- 

 heatled." 



dubium, ste " Popi)y, long smooth- 

 headed." 



