VOLUMES ONE TO TWENTY-FIVE. 



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oavings, 1C7 ; arraugoment of ricks, 

 management of machine, and payment 

 to engineer, ih. ; sketch of the author's 

 ■stack-yard, barns, and cngine-honse, 

 1 GS ; cost of Luikiings, waste tank, &c., 

 1(50 ; eonelusions, 170. 



8TEAjr tlirasiiing-machine, report on that 

 of Kan.sonie and Co., ii. ciii. 



8te,\minCt - APPARATUS, Chcstcrman's 

 newly-invented portable, for steaming 

 potatoes or any other roots for cattle, 

 V. 283. 



, report by P. Pusey on Stanley's 



steaming-apparatus showTi at the Great 

 Exhibition (in 1851), xii. 636. 



, on those shown at the Lewes meet- 

 ing (in 1852), xiii. 328. 



at the Gloucester meeting, xiv. 344. 



Steajiing food, Mr. Bubl/s experience 

 of, xix. 14iJ. 



Steajiing-room, construction of (Tan- 

 cred), xi. 199. 



Steabine, one of the constituents ' of 

 butter (Voelcker), xxiv. 291. 



Steatite, or soap-stone, xvii. 4G4, 466. 



Steexstrup on alternation of genera- 

 tions, xxiii. 114. 



Steep-watek, the, of tlax, aiialysis of 

 (J. Wilson), xiv. 203. 



Steeping seeds in fertilising mixtures 

 (Fownes), iv. 557. 



mangold-wurzel, a trial by G. E. 



Eaynbird, viii. 215. 



Steevens's Hammersmith steam plough 

 at the Worcester meeting, xxiv. 306 ; 

 receives silver medal, 487; ditto at 

 Newcastle, 1864, xxv. 410. 



Stellakia media, see " Chickweed." 



Steppe murrain, see " Murrain." 



Stevenson, Charles, on the farming of 

 East Lothian, xiv. 275. See " Lothian, 

 East." 



Stevenson's theory of the horse's traction 

 power (P. H. Frcre), xxi. 418. 



Stewards at Iloyal AgricuUural Society's 

 meetings : suggestions for diminishing 

 their laljour, xviii. 431. 



STiFLE-p.rRNiNG, practiscd in North Wilt- 

 shire (Little), v. 173. 



Still-refuse, analysis of, xiii. 506. 



Stixchcombe farm, the mode of cultiva- 

 tion adopted on, by Mr. Dimmcry, de- 

 .sciibed by J. Morton, i. 388. 



Stock : instances of heavily stocking 

 farms (Beevor), xviii. 339; the usual 

 average, ih. ; estimate of live and dead 

 stock required on farms of different 

 idzes, 341. 



, ill-bred, the cause of great national 



loss, xix. 197. 



Stock-breeding, the principles by which 



STOCK-FEEDING. 



it is regulated (Prof. Tanner), xxii. 1, 

 See " Breeding." 

 Stock -FEEDING (P. H. Frere), xxi. 218 ; 

 situation and extent of the farm sup- 

 ])lying data, ih. ; Sheplierd's corner 

 farm (Lord Portman), ih. ; stock the 

 farmer's best staff, 219; sheep better 

 than oxen for light land arable farms 

 in Cambridgeshire, ih.; fatting beasts 

 bought lean not proiitable, ih. ; mown 

 sainfoin a cooling summer food, ih. ; 

 detailed cost of yard-feeding a 3i-years 

 old beast, 221 ; cost of twelve months' 

 keep and estimated loss, 223 ; com- 

 mencement of the fatting process, ih. ; 

 use of beau-meal with cake and chaff, 

 ih. ; weekly cost of winter keep, ib. ; 

 Rummer keep, 224 ; and immediate jn-e- 

 paration for market, ih. ; locust beans, 

 ih. ; selling price of beasts, ih. ; de- 

 tailed cost of feeding foiu' young 

 beasts, 225 ; proportion of meat to live 

 weight (Horsfall), 226 ; cost of cutting 

 cliatf, ih. ; comparative value of straw 

 and dung, ih. ; charge per head of 

 stock for nutriment from stra,w, 227; 

 ditto, attendance, ih. ; estimated value 

 of manin-e, 228 ; yearly feeding-cost of 

 seven well-selected young beasts, 229 ; 

 their selling price, 230 ; loss per head, 

 231 ; use of Thorley's and Hemi'a 

 cattle food, ih. ; the results criticised, 

 232 ; an unfavourable balance-sheet 

 (quoted by Mr. Bond), ih. ; each kind 

 of produce should pay its own cost, 

 233 ; selling price of wheat in relation 

 to its cost, ih. ; production of meat the 

 cattle feeder's chief aim, 234 ; 8s. Gd. 

 per stone not a paying price, ih. ; 

 necessity of economy in feeding, ih. ; 

 lessons suggested by profitable sheep- 

 fatting, ih. ; use of stravz-chaff, 235 ; 

 condimental food, ih. ; sheep manage- 

 ment, ih. ; the Hock described, ih. : 

 well-bred animals pay best, 236 ; ob- 

 jections to breeding flocks, ih. ; Mr. 

 Bond's management, ih.; proportion 

 of nitrogenous matter extracted by 

 sheep from oil-cake (Voelcker), 237 ; 

 manuring value of dung, ih. ; breeds 

 of sheep suited to sjjecial localities, 

 238 ; the black-faced sheep, 239 ; his- 

 tory of a flock and yield of lambs, ih. ; 

 East - country ewes advantageously 

 crossed with long-woolled rams, 240 ; 

 remedy for defects of the breed, ih. ; 

 cross-breeding, influence of sire and 

 dam (Spooner), ih. ; the theory practi- 

 cally tested, 241 ; feeding experiments 

 with rape and linseed cake, 242-3 ; 

 results of periodical weighings, un- 



