CONTENTS. f 



Chapter XVI.— ON BUCK-WHEAT. 



Soil — Culture— Seed — Product and uses of the Grain .... p. 222 



Chapter XVII.— ON INDIAN CORN. 



Origin — Growth and appearance — Appropriate soil — Modes and time of sowing- 

 Transplantation — Culture— Harvesting — Husking — Corn-cribs — Shelling — Produce of 

 the Crop — Opinion regarding the success of its cultivation in this country . p. 225 



Chapter XVIIL— ON TURNIPS. 



Introduction of — Appropriate Soil — Species ; White Globe, or Norfolk ; Aberdeen 

 Yellow; Kuta Baga, or Swedish — Time of Sowing — Quantity and quality of Seed — 

 Culture — Application of Manure — Drilling — Hoeing — Produce — Weight and nutritive 

 qualities of the difierent kinds — Diseases — Storing — Grubbing — Application — Turnip 

 Slicing Machines — Value of an Acre of Turnips ..... p. 231 



Chapter XIX.— ON RAPE. 



Soil — Seed — Culture — Growth — Application p. 249 



Chapter XX.— ON MANGEL-WURTZEL. 



Soil and Culture — Growth and period of maturity — Produce and application — Com- 

 parison of its nutritive qualities with Swedish Turnips — Experiments on its feeding 

 properties — Report of the Doncaster Association ..... p. 251 



Chapter XXL— ON CABBAGES. 



Soil and Culture — Seed and Season — Mode of Planting — Quantity of nutritive 

 matter — Comparison between the feeding qualities of Cabbages and Swedes . p. 255 



Chapter XXII.— ON POTATOES. 



Battatas — Introduction of Potatoes — Description and produce of difTerent varieties — 

 Soil and Culture — Time and modes of Planting — American Plan — Lazy-bed fashion — 

 Experiments by 1h^ London Horticultural Society — Mode of spreading the Dung — 

 Growth of Lankman's Potatoe — Seed — Sets and Tubers — Produce from whole Tubers, 

 and from single eyes of fine varieties — Experiments on the depth and distance of 

 planting — Plucking off the Blossoms — Cutting the Haulm — The Curl — Recent failure 

 of the Crops, and various opinions of its cause — Storing, Produce, Value, Application, 

 and Analysis of Nutritive Matter p. 259 



Chapter XXIII.— ON CARROTS AND PARSNIPS. 



Introduction of the Carrot — Soil hest adapted to it — Application of Manure — Seed, 

 and Time of Sowing — Cuhure — Species — Haulm — Storage — Cultivation of the Parsnip 

 — Soil — Seed — Produce, Value, and Appropriation — Production of Seed — Comparative 

 fattening qualities of various Root Crops .....•?• 283 



Chapter XXIV.— ON ARTIFICIAL GRASSES. 



Clovers ; White and Red : Cow-grass ; Trefoil and Melilot ; Scarlet Trefoil, or 

 Crimson Clover — Soils— Time and Mode of Sowing— Treatment of the Crop— Har- 

 vesting — Hay— Growth and produce of the Seed of the difTerent species — Difhculty of 

 Thrashing — Perennial and Annual Rye-grass ; Italian; Pacey's and Stickey's— Value 

 for feeding — Produce when grown for Hay and Seed — Cultivation of Winter and Spring 



