VOLUMES ONE TO TWENTY-FIVE. 



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the Society's second visit, H). ; im- 

 l»rtance of implement trials, ih. ; police 

 and railway arrangements, IJD'i ; ste.im- 

 cultivation, 393 ; report of the judges 

 (see " Steam - cnltivatiou "), 394-417 ; 

 judges' report on horse-ploughs, 417; 

 light-laud jiloughs, 418 ; general pur- 

 pose ploughs, ib. ; heavy - land ditto, 

 420 ; suhsoilers, 421 ; paring-ploughs, 

 ib. ; judges' report of trials of culti- 

 vators, clod-erushers, rollers, &c., 42'J ; 

 schedule of awards, 423 ; miscellaneous 

 implements, and biick and tile ma- 

 climes, 424. 



Resin, its formation in plants, xviii. 411. 



Respiration of annuals, on, by J. B. 

 Simonds, x. 595. 



and respiratory substances (Dr. 



Voelcker), xxii. 388. 



Rest-hakrow, its .soils and habits (Buck- 

 man;, xvi. 300. 



Rhaji, W. L., on the agriculture of the 

 Netherlands, ii. 43, iii."'240. 



• , on nitrate of soda as a manure, iii. 



139. 



, on the comparative value of dif- 

 ferent kinds of fodder, iii. 78. 



, on the simplest and easiest mode of 



analysing soils, a prize essay, i. 40. 



, experiments on the improvement 



of poor lands by subsoil-ploughing 

 with and mthout under-draining, i. 

 257. 



Rheimatisji in horses, by F. Dun. xiv. 

 122. 



, in cattle, by F. Dvm, xv. 77. 



in Sheep, by J. Seaman, xvi. 11 ; by 



F. Dun, xvi. 30, 387, 403. 



in pigs, by F. Dun, xvi. 40. 



RiiizojiES, underground stems (Buckmau), 

 xvii. 104. 



Rir.WdRT, plantain, rib-grass, analysis of 

 (Way), xiv. 179. 



■ , the eftect of irrigation upon (Buck- 

 man), XV. 470 ; how aliccted by manures 

 (Lawes), xx. 204. 



Rice, trial witli, as a manure for wheat, 

 Iw J. B. Lawes, xii. 14. 



Richmond, the Duke of, communication 

 of tlie report of the Morayshire Farm- 

 ers' Club on experuuents made in 

 raising tin-nips with sulphiuic acid and 

 bone-dust, iv. 1G4. See "Sui^erphos- 

 phate of lune." 



, on the solution of bones in sulphuric 



acid fur the purposes of manure, iv. 

 408, V. 443, 447. 



, experiments upon the growing of 



turnijis with diifcrent manures, vii. 297. 



, on the use of peat-tiles lor thaiu- 



iug, viii. 570. 



Rickett's rotaiy cultivator at the Ches- 

 ter meeting (1858), (Uagi-am and report 

 of the judges, xix. 321 ; section of cul- 

 tivating shaft when at work, 323 ; ac- 

 count of (Clarke), xx. 188. 



Rickets in horses (F. Duu), xiv. 125. 



Rick ventilator, v. 388. 



Ridging land, benefit of (Sir J. Paxton), 

 xvii. 473. 



Ridley, Sir IM. "White, the judges' report 

 on the exhibition of implements at the 

 Gloucester meeting, xiv. 343. 



Rinderpest, see " Murrain." 



RiSLER, M., on the action of an aqueous 

 solution of gyi^sum, xxi. 199. 



RiTTER, of Jena, on the oxidising power 

 of non-refrangible rays, xvii. 421. 



Rivers, their bunks, on the best mode of 

 repairing (Poole), xi. 178. 



, on tlie improvement to be made in 



land by amending the channels of 

 rivers and other watercourses, by AV. 

 B. Wood, xiii. 367 ; their ordinary 

 obstructions, 368 ; mills, &c., 369, 372 ; 

 the Thames valley, its floods, 370 ; of 

 the Avon, ib. 



, mud of the Trent and Kirkcud- 

 bright analysetl, xiii. 536. 



-= , are the natural drains of a district, 



xiv. 130 ; how materially impeded liy 

 mill-dams, 130, 131, 133, 137. 



, on trunk drainage, by J. A. Clarke, 



xv. 1. 



, the effect of their flood-waters upon 



grass-land, xv. 9 ; upon arable 13 ; state 



I of some rivers, 36 ; varying level of the 

 tide of the None, 53, 55. 



, their injurious effects from mills, 



floods, &c., in Dorsetshire (Ruegg), xv. 

 427. 



RiVER-WATER, analysis of, i. 152, xiii. 506 ; 

 salts in, xvii. 441. 



, the None, analysis of, xv. 67. 



Roads, practical instructions for im- 

 proving and economically maintaining 

 turnpike and parish roads upon the 

 mile system, by C. B. Challoner, ii. 

 353 ; the chief expense in repair of 

 roads, ib. ; successful working of the 

 system on part of the Great Western 

 road, 354 ; quaUfications necessary for 

 a mileman, 355; tunes for the mile- 

 man to obtain his levels, ib. ; where 

 water rests, and hollows need filling 

 uj), ih. ; when he should be on his 

 road, 356 ; how milemeii sliould be 

 encouraged, 357 ; common defects in 

 shape of roads, 358 ; tendency to be 

 pushed down towards the water-talile, 

 359 ; outline plan of the usual form of 

 a road, ib. ; outline plan of a road 28 



