INDEX. 



323 



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Manures, burnt clay 49 



charcoal 50' 



broken glasa or silicate of potash 50 

 crushed mica, feldspar, lava, 

 the trap rocks, granite, sienite, 



&c 51 



spent lye of the asheries 52 



ammoniacal liquor 52 



guano 52-35 



soot 55 



Organic manures 56 78 



of what composed.... 56 59, 66, 67 

 barnyard how managed .. 59 67, 310 



analysed 66, 67 



longandshort 60,61 



decomposition of 61,62 



tanks for holding liquid 62 



management of 63, 64 



value of 64, 65 



quantity voided by different ani- 

 mals) . ' 65 



various solid animal 6567 



quality of food affects 66 



analysis of barnyard 66, 67 



special manures defined 67 



poudrette and urate 67, 69 



night soil 68, 69 



excrements of fowls 69, 70 



flesh, blood, hair, bristles, horns, 

 hoofs, pelts, the waste of wool- 

 en manufactories and tanneries 70 



fish 70 



cottonseed 71 



seaweed 72 



peat 72 



turf 73 



swamp muck 73 



green crops for 73 



advantages of. 76, 77 



clover for 74 



the cowpea 75 



spurry 76 



white lupine 76 



Maple sugar where made 219 



quantity of in United States,.. 220 

 season for and manner of tapping 



trees 220,221 



mokoks for packing it 220 



making sugar 221,222 



Maple tree, see TREES. 



Marble is carbonate of lime 19 



Marls of what composed, and how 



applied 42, 43 



how analysed 43 



green sand, see GREEN SAND. 

 Marly soils described, and how treat- 

 ed 15, 16,21 



Meadows how managed 97127 



Meadow lands should remain 112114 



Means of renovating 114, 115 



See GRASSES. 

 Mechanical division of soils. ... 8796 



Mica, useful as manure 51 



Millet, cultivation of 159, 160 



Indian or grand 160 



Muck from swamps as manure 73 



Mulb erry, varieties for silkworms 244, 245 



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Mulberry for shade trees 236 



Mustard, cultivation of the black.. . 293 

 the white 237 



N. 



Nectarine, see FRUITS. 



Night soil, how treated 



See POUDRETTE. 

 Nitrate of potash for manure 48 



of soda for manure 48 



forsteeps 48 



Nitric acid described, its utility 59 



formed in the shade 278, 279 



Nitrogen described 58 



Nutritive equivalents of food 183 



tableof 184,185 



O. 



Oaks, see TREES. 



Oats 144148 



varieties 145,146 



cultivation 146,147 



harvesting 147 



uses 147,148 



analysis of. 148 



Olive, see FRUITS. 



Orange, see FRUITS. 



Oxides described 57 



Oxygen described 57 



P. 



Parsnip cultivation and uses 180 



Pastures 97127 



means of renovating 114, 115 



how managed 125 127 



Peach, see FRUITS. 



Pear, see FRUITS. 



Peas, soil for, and varieties 162 



cultivation 162,163 



harvesting 163 



Pea, the cow or stock (Southern) 75, 163 



Peanut, uses and cultivation of 161 



Peat soils-described 16 



cultivating 2224,87 



analysed 72 



for manure 72 



ashes applied to Jaads 38 



Pecan, see TREES. 



Phosphate of lime, see BONES. 



used as a fossil 47 



Phosphorite, see PHOSPHATE OF LIME. 



Pindar, see PEA NUT. 



Pine, the long leaved, see TREES. 

 the white, see TREES. 



Planting defined 8 



Plaster of Paris, see GYPSUM. 



Plows described 88,93 



shovel 96 



Plowing, principles of 8892 



claylands 89 



sandy lands 90 



depth of. 91 



subsoil 85,86,91,98 



Plum, see FRUITS. 



Poplar, see TREES. 



