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INDEX. 



in Hampshire and Berkshire, ib. ; in 

 Wiltshire. Stripping off the skin, ib, — 

 .See Swine. 

 Bal'iff, qualifications of a, i. 123. 

 Bakewell, the breeder, i. 5. His experi- 

 ments on live-stock, 28. His system 

 respecting: the conversion of straw into 

 food, or litter, 230. His trade of ram- 

 letting, ii. 482. 



Banks, Sir Jo'-eph, opinion of, on spring- 

 wheat, ii. l')4. 

 Barilla. — See Kelp and Soapers' Waste. 



Barley, as horse-loud, i. 146. Its nutri- 

 tive quali'ies and proportionate value to 

 oats. 147. Quantity of farm-yard and 

 liquid manure ki 1 on for its growth on 

 different soils, 260, ?i., and 277. Dif- 

 ferent species of, ii. 171. Summer bar- 

 ley, ib. Winter barley, here, or bigg, 

 172. Number of grains contained in a 

 pound each of barley and bigg, ib., «. 

 Rammel, or Wandered bere. 173. Soil 

 required for barley, ib. Cultivation of, 

 ib. Time of sowing, and experiments 

 on, 17.T. Quantity of seed, ib. Mode 

 of sowing, and also of sowing it along 

 with grass seeds, ib. Product of the 

 Chevalier and common kinds of, 176. 

 Average Weight of the grain of barley 

 and bigg, ib. .\nalysis of good mailing 

 barley, :b. Difference between the qua- 

 lities of English, Scotch, and Iri^h bar- 

 ley, 177. Straw of, ib. Harvesting of 

 the grain, and experiments on the jiro- 

 duce of reaping it at different periods of 

 its ripenebs, 187, Hummelling, 204. 



Barns, anciently built by the monks, i, 16, 

 n. Roofing, flooring, and construction 

 of, 87, 80, 90, Plan of one erected by 

 General Washington, ib. Cost and 

 different sorts of, 91, 92. Dutch barns, 

 93. Hay barns, 498, Skeleton barns, 

 ii, 197. 



Baronial halls during the middle ages, 

 i. 17. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 

 24. 



Biiitatos, or sweet potatoes, ii. 259. 



Bavin tug for drawing timber, i. 159, 



Bayeux tapestry, 1, 12. 



Beairs, nutritive jiroperties of, i. 144. As 

 horse-food, 145. Appropiiate suil and 

 species of, ii. 207. Cultivation of, and 

 account of the produce of courses of bar- 

 ley, beans, and wheat. 208. Judgment 

 of seed, 209, n. Comparative advan- 

 tages of drilling, dibbling, and sow- 

 ing broadcast, 210. Description of a 

 dibbling machine, 211, Different pro- 

 duce of, according to tbeir distance in 

 the rows, 212. Harvesting of, 213. 

 Bean ricks, 214. Thrashing, producs^, 

 and diseases of, 215. Weiijht and 

 quantity of nutritive matter, 216. \a.- 

 lue of feeding pigs on bean plants when 

 green, filS. Garden beans, scirlet run- 

 ners, 559 and dwarf, 574. 



Beatson, General, of Knowle Farm, in Sus- 

 sex, his mode of paring and bHrniug, i. 



352, n. His plan of manuring his farm 

 with burnt clay, 367. Description of 

 the kiln, 370. Mode of operation and 

 cost of, 371. His system of farming, ii. 

 G9. His scarifier, 70. His objections 

 to fallowing, mode of ploughing, and 

 charges of cultivation, it), 



Bedford Level, drainage of the, i. 25, 



Bees, value of the honey yearly produced 

 hv, ii. 562. Situation of the hives, ib. 

 Swarming, 563. Manaf;ement of when 

 settled, ib. Calendarial notices of, 564. 



Beet, red garden, ii. 575. — See Mangel 

 Wiirzel. 



Berkshii-e hog, description of the, ii. 508. 

 Weij^ht of the, ib, and n. Breed and 

 crosses with the, 509. 



shim, description of the, i. 346. 



wagi^on, description of the, i. 158 



Beverstone Farm, in Gloucestershire, 

 course of crops on, ii. 103, n. 



Birds, their depredations on corn, and pre- 

 cautions against them. ii. 548. 



Blaikie, Mr., of Norfolk, his ohsf^rvations 

 on the making up of dung-heaps, i. 236. 

 His nccount of the operation of trans- 

 planting turf, 522. His experiments on 

 smutted wheat, ii. 163. 



Blc de Jerusalem, a species of barley, ii. 1 72. 



Sarrazm,&ix^ blc sauvage d'llulie. — See 



Rye. 



Blight on corn, ii. 153. 



Blindness, in sheep, supposed causes of, 

 and operation for its cure, ii. 503. 



Blomfield, Mr., of Warham, in Norfolk; 

 his introduction of the transplantation of 

 turf, i. 522, 



Blubber, as manure, i. 421. Mode of its 

 applicatiim, 422, Manner of forming a 

 compost with it and earth, ib. Its 

 effects on strong land, ib. 



Blue Dog's-tail grass, i. 512. 



Board of Agriculture, establishment and 

 object of the, i, 35. 



Bogs, observations on the draining of, i. 

 470. Report on the national grants for 

 the drainage of those in Ireland, ib. w. 

 Their extent, 471, Co4 of their reda- 

 niaii'ii, ib. Mode of operation on those 

 of moderate size, 472. Drainage of 

 chat-mo>s, 474. Hints to speculators 

 on the reclamation of, ib. and 475, 



Bones, use of, as a manure, i. 39?. Mode 

 and expense of crushing, 393, Experi- 

 ments on their application to diffijrent 

 soils, 394. Comparative trials with 

 bone-dust and farm y-ard manure, 395 

 and 396. Distinctive properties of bone- 

 dust and crushed bones, their quantity 

 and durability, 397. Time and manner 

 of laying them upon the land, 398. 

 Soils to which they are best adapted, 

 399. Analysis of bones, and of soils on 

 which they had opposite effects, 400 and 

 401. Observations on raw and boiled 

 bones, 402. Formation of composts 

 with siable muck and bones, 403. Sura-' 

 mary of the rules laid down by the Don- 



