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SHROPSHIRE. 



vedale district, ib. ; one of the most 

 fertile of English vales, ih. ; the climate 

 unfavoin-ablc to tillage, ;52 ; rotation of 

 crops on clifterent soils, /7;. ; the vetch 

 crop eaten by sheep, So ; the climate 

 more suited to swedes than mangold, 

 ib. ; method of sowing recommended, 

 34 ; precautions against mildew, So ; 

 small, slowly-grown roots keep best, 

 35; economical mode of storing roots, 

 ib. ; wheat, how sown, 36 ; the sorts 

 preferred, and quantity sown per acre, 

 ib. ; the average yield, 37 ; the oat 

 natm-alised to moist climates, and re- 

 commended for bad seasons, 37 ; ad- 

 vantages of Scotch seed, ib. ; beans 

 liable to blight, ib. ; grass-lands, ex- 

 cellent and remunerative, 38 ; the con- 

 genial home of Hereford cattle, ib. ; 

 early calves, how managed, 39 ; Here- 

 ford cows occasionally crossed with 

 shorthorns, 39 ; etfects of ergot of rye 

 in causing abortion, 40 ; the Longmynd 

 sheep described by Plymley (' General 

 View of the Agriculture of Shrop- 

 sliirc,' J). 803), 42 ; the Sliropshire 

 Down, a cross of the Longmynd and 

 Southdown, ib. ; constitution and size 

 of tlie modeiTi sheep, 43 ; weight and 

 value of the carcass and tleece, 43 ; 

 long-woolled crosses unsuccessful, ib. ; 

 in the northern part of the Corvedale 

 district, Welsh ewes crossed witli Lei- 

 cester rams predominate, ib. ; horses 

 Ivept on pasture, 44 ; orchards cropped 

 with roots and corn, ib. ; draining and 

 the use of local stone, ib. ; farm-build- 

 ings, 45 ; tenure of land, yearly, 45 ; 

 two years' notice suggested, ib. /)/.<- 

 trict III., 46 ; embankment of the 

 Severn near Slirewsbury wanted, ib. ; 

 EUesmere, the Wrekin, Much Wenlock, 

 Shiftbal, 47; the boggy soils at Kiu- 

 nersley and elsewhere, liow caused, ib.; 

 an araljle and sheep-farming district, 

 48; green crops, the chiferent kinds 

 grown, e.g. trifolium, lucern, 49; Italian 

 rye-grass, 50 ; rape, and tlic proper 

 time for sowing it, ib. ; preparation for 

 mangold, 51 ; burning weeds and seeds, 

 tlie most effectual mode of cleaning 

 land, ib. ; swedes, the standard root 

 crop of tlie district, 52 ; carrots, how 

 grown, 53; barley laud, t\vice ploughed, 

 ib. ; selection and treatment of seed, 

 and mode of sowng, 54 ; wheat sown 

 late on stale fiurows, ib. ; average 

 crop, use of pressers, ib. ; the use of 

 ■water-furrows on impervious soils, 55 ; 

 Mr. Wliitmore's water-meadows, 5() ; 

 cattle, ib. ; the Ilcrcfords and short- 



SILICATES. 



horns of a high class, ib. ; Lord Ber- 

 wick's Herefords, ib. ; grey-fiiccd Here- 

 fords preferred for tiieir hardiness on 

 i)oor farms, 57 ; Shropshire Down 

 sheep and successful ilock-mastcrs, ib. ; 

 their weight of wool, 59 ; a cross with 

 Leicesters not desirable for carcass oi- 

 wool, ib.; Sliropshire wool celcl)rated 

 in the 14th [century, 60 ; weiglit of 

 lleece much influenced by good keep 

 in the sjiring, ib. ; treatment of foot- 

 rot, 61 ; drainage, ib. ; the use of swal- 

 low-holes, 62; labourers' wages and 

 cottages, ib. ; the industrial school at 

 Quatt, 63; tenm-e and allowances for 

 draining, bones, lime, &c., 64 ; curious 

 outgoing covenant for corii crops, ib. 



SiniiALD, W. C, on tiie diseases oeciu'ring 

 after parturition in cows and sheeji, a 

 prize report, xii. 554. 



Sickle, the, compared with tlic scythe 

 in harvesting wheat (Rodwell), i. 447. 



Sidney, Eev. Edwin, on the parasitic 

 fungi of the British farm, x. 382. See 

 " Funguses." 



SxEBoi.D, Von, on the Cy ticercus fasciolaris 

 and the Crenurus cerebralis, xxiii. 95. 



SiEviERS method of compressing wood, 

 XX. 11. 



SiLENE inflata, see " Bladder campion." 



Silesia, some account of the cultivation 

 of a farm in, by artificial manure oidy 

 for 14 years, by M. Kotschkc, xiii. 

 564. 



Silica in plants, on its origin, by Dr. 

 Fownes, iv. 524, 531. 



' , origin of, in wheat-straw, by J. T. 



Way, xiii. 137. 



, chemical properties of (Hemming), 



xiii. 429. 



■ , soluble, on, by J. T. Way and J. M. 



Paine, xiv. 226. 



strata, the, of the lower chalk, by 



J. T. Way and J. M. Paine, xiv. 

 225. 



, its composition (Do la Beehe), xvii. 



458, in the Geytersi, ib. ; forms of 

 (Fuchs), 459. 



, required for grasses, made soluble 



by annnoniacal salts (Licbig), xix. 

 240. 



Silicates, doul)lc, on the, by J. T. Way, 

 xiii. 129. 



• of alumina and soda, xiii. 129. 



(if alumina and lime, xiii. 130. 



of alumina and iiotash, xiii. 131. 



of alumina and anuuonia, xiii. 131. 



, the soil from tlicm derives its power 



to ab.sorb manure, xiii. 135. 



, the jiower of tlie silicates to absorb 



ammonia from the air, xiii. 139. 



