INDEX. 



(The Numerals refer to Vols. I. and II.) 



Abbey Holme, in Cumberland, mode of 

 fatting calves lor veal at, ii. 447. 



Accounts of farmin}^ business, observa- 

 tions on tbe mode of keepinij, i. 113. 



Achillea MiUefulia, or Harrow, i. 513. 



Agistment, and animal tithe, laws of, and 

 mode of settling the money accounts, i. 

 76, 77. 



Agriculture, importance of, i. 1. Advan- 

 tages in the pin-buit of, 2. Profits of, 4. 

 Notices of some eminent farmers, 5 ; 

 and mode of becoming a good husband- 

 man, 9. Earliest known cultivation of 

 Britain, 11. The Saxon era, 12. State 

 of at the Norman conquest, 13. Mode 

 of cropping and produce of arable land 

 in the latter end of the 13th and 14ih 

 centuries, IS. Progress of husbandry 

 in tbe 1 jth and the early part of the IGth 

 century, 21. To the middle of tlie 17th 

 and 18th centuries, 2-1. 27. Farmer 

 agriculture of Ireland, 28. Plantation 

 o\ Ulster, 2y. Dublin Agricultural So- 

 ciety, 30. Actual state of the husbandry 

 of that country, 31. Scottish agricul- 

 ture, ib. System of run-iig, 32. Pre- 

 sent state of it, ib. Comparative merits 

 of Scotch and English husbandry, 33. 

 Agriculture of the United Kingdom at 

 the close of the last century, 34. Board 

 of Agriculture, 35. Surveys of the 

 United Kingdom, 30. Scope of this 

 publication, ib. 



Agricultural labourers, situation of, in 

 England, i. 114. Effects occasioned by 

 the poor-rate, 1 1 5. State of in Scotlaml, 

 IIG. Food of ia Scotland and Ireland, 

 116, note. Payments in lieu of wages to 

 the Scottish peasantry, and their earn- 

 ings, 116, 117, 121. Observations on 

 the allowance of allotments of land, and 

 the keep of cows to, 1 IS, ii. 567. Cha- 

 racter of, i. 119. Advantages of a regu- 

 lar division of work among, 1 21. Num- 

 ber of, 122. Task work, ib. Selection 

 and superintendence of those employed, 

 and value of an odd man, 123. — See 

 Cottage Economy. 



Agrostis Stolomfera, or Creeping Bent 

 grass, i. 518. — See Fiorin. 



Atra Aqiratica, or Water Hair grass, i. 51 8. 



AlcheDiilla vukjaris, or Lady's IMantle 



grass, i. 512. 

 Alkaline and calcareous manures. — See 

 Chalk and Lime. 



soils, i, 509. — 



See Chalkv Land, 



Allotments of land to the peasantry, ii. 567. 



Alluvial soils, rotation of crops on, ii. 107. 



Alopecurus pratensis, or Meadow Foxtail, 

 i. 512. 



Animal labour, i. 124. Average annual 

 quantity of land ploughed by a team, ib. 

 Comparative view of horse and ox- 

 teams as beasts of draught, 178. — See 

 Horse-teams and Ox-teams. 



Anise-seed. — See Cummin. 



Annual expenses of farming, i. 49. Ta- 

 ble of comparative charges on three dif- 

 ferent modes of cropping, 50. 



Aniho.vanthum odoi-alum, or Sweet-scented 

 Vernal grass, i. 514. 



Ants, mode of destroying, ii. 547. 



Aphis, an insect injurious to the bean- 

 plant, ii. 215. 



Aquatic grasses, i. 517. 



Arable farms, observations on, i. 39. — See 

 Farm Management. 



Arbuthnot, JMr., of Peterhead, his experi- 

 ments with composts of peat-moss, sea- 

 ware, and dung, i. 417. 



Argillaceous soils, i. 509. — See Clays. 



Artichoke, cultivation of the, ii. 574. 



Artificial grasses, effects of the application 

 of gypsum on, i. 327. Annual species 

 of, ii. 292. — See Clovers, Rye Grass, 

 Tares, and Spurry. — -See also Chiccory, 

 Sainfoin, and Lucerne ; and Perennial 

 Grasses. 



Ashes, of coals, their eflPect, i. 332 ; of 

 wood, ib. ; and the trees from which the 

 best qualities are produced, ib., n. Turf 

 ashes of peat moss, 334. Newbury 

 peat ashes : situation, mode of prepara- 

 tion, and effects of, ib. ; time and quan- 

 tity of their application, 335 ; and ana- 

 lysis of. 336. Dutch ashes : their esti- 

 mation in Holland, and their price, ib. 

 Sod ashes : quantity produced, per acre, 

 by ]>aring and burning the land, 353 

 and 362 ; and analysis of, ib. 



Asparagus, garden, cultivation of, ii. 572. 



Asses, in their domesticated state, i. 177. 

 Stallio:is in Spain and the Island of 

 Gozo, il>. Employment of, 178. 



Avena elatior, or Tall Oat grass, i. 513. 



flavesccns, or Yellow Oat grass, i. 



513. 



Bacon and ham, ii. 523. Mode of di- 

 viding the carcass of a pig, ib. Salting 

 of, 524. Dryingof, ib. Smoke-houses, 

 ib. Modes of curing in Portugal and 

 "Westphalia, ib. ; in Westmoreland, 525 ; 



