INDEX. 



335 



Linseed, advantages resulting from, 

 46 

 as steamed food, 308 

 food for older calves, 14 

 how administered, 43 

 mode of boiling, 43 

 quantity of, grown on an acre 

 and a quarter, 309 

 Linseed-cake, analysis of three va- 

 rieties of, 304 

 Liquid manure, how procured, 208 

 mode and expense of delivering 



it, 210 

 mode of application, 208 

 productive properties of, 209 

 tank for, 70 

 Liquid manure cart, description of, 



08 

 Live stock, transit of, GO 

 Local peculiarities, practices sanc- 

 tioned under the name of, 2G0 



Machines of various sizes, where 



used, 62 

 Main-drains, dimensions of. 111 



construction of. 111 

 Malt, value of, as food, 44, 46 

 Management of stock, cost of, 258 

 Mangel-wurzel, growth of, on chalk 



and clay soils, 223 

 Manuring, cost of, per acre, 219 

 Manure, action of, 133 

 analysis of, 136 

 application of, 206 

 cost and profit of various kinds, 



274 

 evil of trying small quantities, 



274 

 for hops, 203 

 from linseed-feeding, value of, 



309 

 how to increase, 27, 29 

 improvement in, by the use of 



prepared food, 44 

 inorganic constituents the most 



essential parts of, 164 

 more elective on drained lands, 



76 

 necessary to restore fertility, 



132, 135 

 on the rationale of, 150 

 payment for management of, 237 

 profit of, 26 



to what crops to be applied, 219 

 whence derived, 136 



Manure - heaps, how best turned 



over, 249 

 Manures, chapter on, 132 



on the relative value of, 212 

 tables of weights of, 203, 204 

 Map of drained fields for farmer, 78 

 Marl, uses of, 151 

 Marl, bone-earth, &c., uses of, 139 



influence of, 141 

 Marshall's ',Mr.) mode of feeding, 



42, 47 

 Matter, differentforms of, in cattle, 39 

 Maw (Mr.), observations of, 195 

 Maxwell (F.)> experiments of, in 



thorough-draining, 283 

 Meadow-grass, how mowed, 236 

 Means for carrying out the inten- 

 tions of nature in cattle, 7 

 Measurement of task-work, 235 



various kinds of, 236, 252 

 Measure-work, on, 234, 256 

 Mechanical operations, influence of, 



on fertility, 135 

 Metamorphic rocks, character of, 322 

 Milch cow, consumption of, 310 

 ISIilk, food approximatuig to, 7 

 ingredients of, 19 

 perfect food for a growing ani- 

 mal, 9 

 Mineral elements of grain necessary 

 for the soil, 134 

 action of the, 142 

 Mixed manures, effects of, 188 

 MLxture of elements, difliculty of, 



removed, 145 

 Mode of opening drains, 1 1 4 



tools employed in making, 115 

 Moisture injurious if too great, 100 

 " jVIoorband," analysis of, 103 

 Moss and guano, mixture of, 190 

 Motive powers employed, 63 

 IMowing meadow grass, how exe- 

 cuted, 236 

 cost of, 237 

 Mowing wheat preferable to reaping, 

 237 

 cost of, 237 

 Muriatic acid, action of lime on, 153 

 Muscle and fat, how to obtain, 40 

 Mustard, eff"ect of subsoiling on a 

 field of, 229 



Natural grasses which tenant barren 

 soils, 319 

 which indicate a fertile soil, 320 



