212 GENERAL INDEX TO ROYAL AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



WiREWOKM, on the desti'uction of, by J. 



M. H. Charuock, xi. 183. 

 ■ , their absence from Mr. Drewitt's 



farm near Guildford, a holding free 



from weeds (Evershed), xiv. 84. 

 , infesting sainfoin, suggested means 



of destroying (Curtis), xviii. 57. 

 WoAD, crops of, cfiect on the wircworm 



(Curtis), V. 203. 

 WoiiLER, on soluble phosphate given 



out by watered bones, xvii. 201. 

 Wolds of Lincolnshire, described by A. 



Young, iv. 298. 



, by J. A. Clarke, xii. 271, 330. 



of York.sliire described (Legard), ix. 



90, 92, 99, 103. 

 , the soils of, desoribeil by Tvcgard, 



xii. 480. 

 Wolfe, E. B., on the comparative merits 



of thick and thin sowing, ix. 453. 

 , on the proper quantity of seed for 



wheat, xi. 181. 

 AVoMij, inflammation of, ui cows (Sibbald). 



xii. 507. 

 Women as accountants in France, xxiv. 



15. 

 Wood, W. Bryan, on the improvements 



to be made in laud 1iy amending the 



channels of rivers and other water- 

 courses, xiii. 367. 



' , H., on subsoiling pastures, XXV. 510. 



, see " Timber." 



, on the funguses of, dry-rot, &c., by 



the Rev. E. Sidney, x. :;94. 



ashes, analysis of, xiii. 490. 



, analysis of several kinds of (Payen), 



ii. 253. 

 , analysis of the wood of the apple, 



xiii. 530. 



of the pear, xiii. 530. 



of the cherry, ib. 



of the plum, ih. 



of the filbert, ib. 



of the oak, ib. 



of the walnut, ib. 



■ • of the ash, ib. 



of the elm, ib. 



of the fibr, ib. 



of the larcli, ?7/. 



of the bcocli, (7/. 



of the birch, ib. 



of the cliesnut, ib. 



of the lime, ib. 



of the poplar, ib. 



lyme-gniss (Buckman), xv. 464. 



meadow-grass (Buckman"), xvii. 530. 



Woods of Devonshire '^Tanner;, ix. 484. 

 of Cumberland Dickinson^, xiii. 



280. 

 , analysis of wood, bark, and leaves 



of forest-trees (Hemming), xiii. 530. 



Woods of East Lothian (Stevenson), xiv. 

 289. 



, beech, of Oxfordshire (Read), xv. 



253. 



of Dorsetshire fEuegg), xv. 414. 



, beech, of Bacldnghamshire (^llead\ 



xvi. 307. 



, on the gniblnng up of, by J. E. 



Denison, xvi. 352; expenses of, 354; 

 injury of the shade of a wood, and 

 prevention of a free circulation of air, 

 358. 



Woodward, F., on a method of breaking 

 up inferior pasture-land, ix. 54. 



W(H)DY fibre, difficulties of estimating 

 (Lawes), xx. 420. 



, its relation to cellulose (Dr. Voelc- 



ker), xxii. 389 ; (Lawes), xxiii. 191. 



Wool, the Merino, or Saxon of ]\Iecklen- 

 burg(S. Carr), i. 131. 



, observations on (E. Smith), viii. 25. 



, the prices of, in Kill, and during 



the present century, 1)y T. Eowiundsou, 

 X. 422 ; produced by dillerent sheep 

 slaughtered in London in 1800, 423 ; 

 cll'ects of smearing on, 445. 



, the weight of wool produced in a 



comparative trial of 40 Sassex and 40 

 Hampshire Down sheep, by J. B. 

 Lawes, xii. 429. 



])roduced from 40 Cotswold sheep, 



by J. B. Lawes, xiii. 189. 



analysed, xiii. 490. 



of Dorsetshire (Euegg), xv. 432. 



produced from Leicester sheep and 



cross-breds, in tlie trials of J. B. Lawes, 

 xvi. 58, GO ; from other .sheep, 73 ; 

 average prices of, 81. 



, on the general character, com- 

 mercial uses, &c., of British wool, by 

 John Wilson, xvi. 239 ; " hogs " or 

 " tegs," ib. ; " wethers " and " ewes," in- 

 fluence of careful and regular feeding 

 upon the growth of, 240; influence of 

 climate, locality, and soil, ib. ; Scotch 

 cross-bred and Welsh wools, 241 ; Down 

 and Dorset-stapled wool, ib. ; the deep- 

 grown combing wools, ib. ; woollens, 

 242 ; worsteds, ih. ; with cotton warps, 

 243 ; skin wool, 244 ; scats of the Eng- 

 lish manufactures of woollen cloths, 

 ib. ; blankets, low woollens, low car- 

 pets, worsted goods, flannels, ib. ; prices 

 of various wools, April 1, 1855, 245; 

 Lincoln wool, ib. ; Leicester, ih. ; Cots- 

 wold, Eomney marsh, Devon, Bam- 

 borougli, ib. ; Bumpton Down, Eye- 

 land, Merino, 246 ; Dartmoor, Exmoor, 

 Radnor or Wekh, Ciieviot, black-faced 

 Highland, Herdwick, Shetland, cross- 

 bred, 247, 



