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WILI SHIRE. 



-ib; the strong clays and clayey loams, 

 162 ; size of farms, the down is at- 

 tached to tlie forms, lb. ; rotation of 

 crops on flinty and chalky loams, ib. ; 

 land when sown with cloA"er, 163 ; light 

 llinty soils, ib. ; rotations on, sainfoin, 

 163; heavy white land, 164; the rota- 

 tion on. ib. ; saud lands, ib. ; turnip 

 husbandry, ib. ; the course on the 

 ]>oorcr soils, fb. ; on the sandy loams, 

 165 ; the growth of green crops, ib. ; 

 management of crops, ib. ; wheat, when 

 chiefly sown, ib. ; spring wheat, ib. ; 

 wheat, cost of reaping, 165 ; barley, 

 when sowni, drilled, mown, ib.; cow- 

 grass anil marl-grass as substitutes for 

 red clover, 166 ; the pastures, 167 ; the 

 water-meadows, ib. ; an important part 

 of its husbandry, ib. ; then- course of 

 management, ib. ; manures employed, 

 168 ; the sheepfold, ib. ; muckle and 

 folding, ih. ; farmyard - manure, ib. ; 

 lx)nes, the use of, to the district, ib. ; 

 chalk, ib. ; paring and burning, 169 ; 

 breed of cattle, ib. ; the Berkshire 

 spotted-pig, ib. ; sheep stock, ib. ; kept 

 for breeding, ib. ; Southdowns, 170 ; 

 horses, ib. ; the implements, 171 ; di'ain- 

 age little needed, 172. 



WiLTSHiifE, North Wiltshire, or the oolite 

 district, v. 172 ; the soils of the corn- 

 brasli, ib. ■ within the Oxford clay, ib. ; 

 the coral rag and the Kimmeridge clay, 

 ib. ; sandy soil, ib. ; size of tlie farms, 

 173 ; rotation, ib. ; maniu-es, ib. ; stifle- 

 biUTiing, ib. ; the process described, ib. ; 

 the manures they employ, 174 ; timiips, 

 ib. ; pastures, 175 ; their breed of cattle 

 the shorthorn, ib.; grazing of cattle, 

 176 ; pigs, ib. ; sheep, ib. ; horses, ib. ; 

 implements, ib. ; drainage of land, 177 ; 

 the tenure on which the farms are 

 generally held, ib. ; wages of labourers, 

 ib. ; improvements and alterations since 

 1811, 178. 



, the chalk soils of, descriljed by 



Davis, xii. 483. 



sheep, its likeness (W. C. Sjjooner), 



XX. 299 ; see " Sheep-breeding ; " its ex- 

 tinction in Berkshire (Spearing), xxi. 40. 



Vt'iNDS. eflect of W. and N.W. winds in 

 the W. of England, bv N. Whitley, 

 xi. 41. 



, on the prevailing, by B. Simpson, 



xi. 620 ; land and sea breezes, 621. 



of Cumberland, the " helm-wind," 



by W. Dickinson, xiii. 214, 215. 



of Dorsetshire (Kuegg), xv. 435. 



WiNDSOiJ forest partly enclosed (Spear- 

 ing), xxi. 9. 



WiNGATE, W. B., accoimt of the claying 



•mREAVORM. 



of the peat-soils of Lincolnsliire bv, 

 ii. 407. 



WiNNOWiNG-MACHiNES, a report on those 

 shown at the Great Exhibition (in 

 1851), by P. Fusey, xii. 631. 



, former rude mode of winnowing in 



Cumberland (Dickinson), xiii. 276. 



, those shown at the Gloucester 



meeting (1853), xiv. 351. 



, those shown at the Lincoln meeting 



(1854), XV. 378. 



, those shown at the Carlisle meeting 



(1855), xvi. 507, 515. 



, on those shown at Chester (1858), 



xix. 342. 



WiXTER-PKorD wheat, what owing to 

 (Buckman), xvii. 179. 



WiREWORM, observations on the natural 

 history and economy of the wireworms 

 aifecting the turnips, corn-crops, &c., 

 and also of their parents, the elaters 

 or beetles, called skipjacks, click- 

 beetles, &c., by John Curtis, v. 180; 

 almost omnivorous, 181 ; its food, ib. ; 

 the beetles the parents of the wire- 

 worm, ib. ; elaters, skipjacks, or spring- 

 beetles, 182; the beetles' eggs, ib.; 

 the wireworms, ib.; habits described, 

 ib.; whether they can fast, 189; the 

 crops which sufler from their attacks, 

 190; oats, barle}% ib. ; wheat, 191; 

 jjotatoes, 192 ; hops, 193 ; cabbages, 

 ib. ; the turnip, 194 ; this plant has the 

 greatest number of insect enemies to 

 encounter, ib. ; pansies, dahlias, lobe- 

 lias, carnations, 196; where they do 

 most mischief, 197; soils commonly 

 most infested, ib. ; modes of dealing 

 with the wireworm, ib. ; found in waste 

 and wood land, 200 ; rolling-crops at- 

 tacked by them, 201 ; crops that destroy 

 the wireworm, 203 ; eflect of liquids 

 on — water, ib. ; spirits of turpentine, 

 spirits of wine, ib. ; spuits of tar, refuse 

 lime of gas-works, 204 ; eflect of lime 

 and soot and salt, 205 ; the rook au 

 enemy to wireworms, 207 ; and phea- 

 sants, partridges, lapwings, 208 ; en- 

 gravings of the wireworm in its 

 diflerent stages, ib. ; the satin-coated 

 click-beetle, 217 ; the mouse-coloured 

 click-beetle, ib. ; the tawny-legged click- 

 beetle, 218 ; the spitting click-beetle, 

 219; the black click-beetle, ib.; the 

 margined click-beetle, 220 ; the pointed 

 click-beetle, 221 ; the long-necked 

 click-beetle, ib. ; insects which destroy 

 tlie wheworms, 224 ; their parasites, 

 225 ; the parasites of the click-beetles, 

 ib. ; false wireworms, 227 ; the snake 

 millepedes, 228. 



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