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standard for farmyard manure, 1G3; 

 efiects of rainfall, ih. ; old-fashioned 

 covenants, 164 ; quantity and quality 

 of manure, as aiiected by covered yards, 

 ib. ; size of farm to furnish 200 tons of 

 straw for litter, ih. ; average yield per 

 acre of wheat, barley, and oat straw, 

 165 ; consumption of straw by horses 

 and stock, 166; Mr, Bond on stock- 

 ftu'ming, ih. ; chaff consumed by sheep, 

 ih. ; straw used on arable farm of 400 

 acres, 167; experimeuts on hay and 

 straw, combined with cake and roots, 

 ih. ; Nesbitt on oil in wheat-straw, 

 ih. ; percentage of carbonaceous matter, 

 168 ; theories of nutrition, ib. ; aids to 

 digestion, ih. ; cooked cattle-food, ih. ; 

 comparative analyses of bean-straw and 

 liay, ib. ; early cutting of fodder plants, 

 ih. ; rape-cake, ib. ; bean-straw on clay 

 farms, ib. ; Mr. Horsfall's feeding ex- 

 periments, ib. ; question as to direct 

 profit of, from stall-feeding bullocks, 

 171 ; analytical value of straw, ih. ; its 

 comparative value for feeding or ma- 

 nure, ih. ; on cutting and storing straw- 

 chafl:' (Mr. Jonas), 172. 

 Stkaw, its composition and nutritive qua- 

 lities (Dr. Voelcker), xxii. 382 ; errors 

 and conflicting theories, ih. ; its value 

 as an absorbent, and action in fixing 

 ammonia, 383 ; indirect fertilising 

 value, ih. ; percentage and value of dry 

 matter in straw i^er ton, ih. ; conversion 

 of straw into beef, 384 ; evil of over- 

 ripeness, ih. ; conditions aftectiug the 

 value of wheat, oat, and barley straw, 

 ih. ; pea-hauhn, ih. ; want of explicituess 

 in published analyses, 385 ; percentage 

 of water in well-harvested straw, ih. ; 

 subtUvisions of the group "nitroge- 

 nised ' or flesh-forming substances, ih. ; 

 straw not rich in them, 386 ; nou- 

 nitrogenised substances, ih. ; starch not 

 present in straw, ih. ; percentage of fat 

 overstated, ih. ; use and office of car- 

 bonaceous substances, ih. ; percentage of 

 carbon in fatty matter, 388 ; composition 

 of gum, sugar, mucilage, and starch, ih. ; 

 consumption of carbon in respiration, 

 ib. ; straw deficient in respiratory con- 

 stituents, ib. ; relation of woody fibre to 

 celhdose, 389 ; superior nutritiousuess 

 of straw cut green, ih. ; difficulty of 

 exactly determining the digestibility of 

 woody fibre, 391 ; mode of determining 

 albuminous compounds, ih. ; Sinclair's 

 experiments with grasses, 392 ; analysis 

 of wlieat-xlmw, ih. ; percentage of in- 

 digestible woody fibre, oil, and albu- 

 minous compounds, 393 ; feeding value 



of chaft', ih. ; comparative analyses and 

 feeding values of ripe and over-ripe 

 straw, 394 ; Way and Ogston's analyses 

 of the ash, ib. ; its richness in silica, 

 395 ; variable percentage of ash, ib. ; 

 cause of weak straw, ih. ; analyses of 

 stubble, ih. ; barhij-slraw, ■ dead ripe, 

 not too ripe, 398 ; ash, 396 ; oat-straw, 

 ripe, 399 ; from farm-buildings, 400 ; 

 green, 401 ; fairly ripe and over-ripe, 

 402 ; estimated composition when chied, 

 403 ; ash, 399 ; deductions from ana- 

 lytical results, 440 ; loss of niti'ogen in 

 ripening corn-crops, ib. ; proper time 

 to cut oats, 405; succulent food fat- 

 tening, ib. ; oat-hay, 406 ; •pea-slrma, 

 406 ; its high feeding value, 407 ; com- 

 position of ash (Hertwig), and its rela- 

 tion to that of other straw, ib. ; ?;ea/(- 

 sf.raw, analyses and feeding value of, 

 408-10; ash, 'ib.; flax-straw, 411; 

 clover and meadow-hay, 412 ; its com- 

 jiosition and superiority to straw, ih. ; 

 straws arranged in their order of vahu', 

 413. 



Straw, the object of giving it to stall-fed 

 animals (L. Playfair), iv. 235. 



, analysis of wheat-straw, by Dr. 



Fownes, iv. 526 ; of barley-straw, 529 ; 

 of rye-straw, ih. ; of oat-straw, 530. 



, analysis of the ashes of pea-straw, 



by J. T. Way, ix. 149. 



, analysis of the aslies of bean-straw, 



ix. 151. 



barns, construction of (Tancred), xi. 



197; (Ewart), 232. 



, analysis of oat, by J. T. Way, xi. 



500 ; barley-straw, 504 ; Indian corn, 

 509 ; flax, 519. 



, on the consmnption of, with oilcake 



(Clarke), xii. 398. 



, on the siliceous covering of wheat- 

 straw, how obtained, bv J. T. Way, xiii. 

 137. 



, analysis of wheat-straw (Hemming), 



xiii. 450 ; barley, iJ). ; oats, ib. ; rye, ib. ; 

 beans, ih. ; i^ea, ib. ; tares, ib. ; lentils, 

 ih. 



, stifiened by salt, xvii. 444 ; lodging 



of crop. ih. ; has a tendency to brighten 

 straw (Buckman), 188. 



, wheat, its feeding and manuring 



cost, value, and composition (Horsfall), 

 xviii. 172. 



, barley, amount of, and proportion of 



corn, with various manures, at Kotham- 

 sted, xviii. 458. 



. percentage of, in manure (Way), 



xviii. 369. 



manure, analyses of, by Prof. Way, 



xviii. 369 ; by Dr. Voelcker, 371. 



