CONTENTS. 



Chapter I.— ON IMPLEMENTS OF TILLAGE-PLOUGHS. 



Object and operations — Scotch and English A}>;riculture — Labourers — Implements — 

 The Swing Plough — The Tmnwrest — The Hertfordshire Wheel Plough — Small's 

 Plough — Ransome's Patent Ploughs — Imperial Self-Cleaning, or Rid-Plough — Double 

 Furrow Plough — Ribbing Plough — Trench and Skim Ploughs — Wheel Ploughs — 

 Opinion of Ploughs for different soils . . . . . . . p. 1 



Chapter II.— ON HARROWS, GRUBBERS, SCARIFIERS, SCUF 

 FLERS, AND HORSE-HOES. 



Harrows and Drags — Operation of Harrowing — Grubbers, Cultivators, Scarifiers, and 

 Tormentors — Finlayson's Self-Cleauer and Kirkwood's Grubber — The Drill Harrows — 

 Horse Hoes ........... p. 22 



Chapter III.— ON ROLLERS. 



The Solid Cylinder— The Hollow, the Double, the Convex, and Concave Rollers — 

 The Spiky Roller p. 33 



Chapter IV.— ON THE OPERATION OF PLOUGHING. 



Management — Ploughmen — Taste in ploughing — Draught— Strength of Team re- 

 quired on heavy land — Modes of operation — Formation of ridges — Quantitj^ of Land 

 ploughed in a day's work — Depth of ploughing on various soils . . p. 38 



Chapter V.— ON FALLOWING. 



Bastard Fallow— Fallow Crops— Summer Fallow — Proofs of the necessity of Fallow- 

 ing — Modes of conducting the operation — Different ploughings to effect a clean Fallow 

 — Seed-furrow — Winter Fallow — Greg's system and profits — Beatson's plan — His total 

 abolition of Fallows ; description of his Scarifier; his course of cultivation; expenses and 

 difference in favour of the new method . . . . . . . p. 54 



Chapter VI.— ON SOWING BROADCAST, DRILLING, AND 

 DIBBLING. 



TuU's experiments and result— Broadcasting, with a Machine to effect it — Drilling- 

 Arguments in favour of and against it—Operation of, and Drill Implements — Dibbling 

 — Experiments on the different modes of putting in the Seed . . . p. 71 



Chapter VII.— ON THE ROTATION OF CROPS. 



Its importance, and judgment required to arrange these judiciously — Old culture of 

 Corn— Modern culture of Corn and Roots — General principles of the different courses — 

 Triennial rotation-Alternate rotations— Norfolk system— Plans of bringing Farms into 

 a regular succession of green and corn crops — Double crops — Flemish mode — District 

 rotations: on chalk; on sandy loams; on cold heavy clays ; on thin clays; on strong 

 dry land of a fertile nature— System in the Fens — Hill-moss Moorland ; Bent-muss ; 

 Flow-moss — Summary ....••••• p. 90 



Chapter VIII.— ON SOILS AND COURSES OF CROPPING.; 



Classification of Soils—Crops for deep strong lands; for rich clay loams ; for infe- 

 rior clays and loams ; for light, calcareous, and gravelly soils ; for sandy land— Courses 



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