336 



INDEX. 



Natural indications of barrenness 

 and fertility, 319 



Neck and head of cattle not handling 

 points, 4 



Newly broken-up land, little ex- 

 pense required for, 163 



Night-soil, experiments with, 184 



Nitrate and ammoniacal substances, 

 uses of, 189 



Nitrate of soda, uses of, 187, 216 



Nutritive qualities of various kinds 

 of food, 11 



Occasional labour operations, how 

 paid for, 256 



Ocean, inorganic ingredients in the 

 waters of the, 200 



Oil-cake, phosphate of lime in, 181 



Oil-seeds, advantage of, in feeding, 

 40 

 best with beans and peas, 40 



Old and present practice of return- 

 ing excavated earth, 1 18 



Old grass and arable land, compara- 

 tive advantages of, 307 



One-horse carts, the advantages of, 

 70 



Open furrows en surface injurious, 

 108 



O'Neill (James), case of, 30 



Oolitic formations, character of, 391 



Paper for roofing, description of, 37 



how applied, 37 

 Paring and burning, how done, 242 

 Parks (Mr), experiment of, 213 

 Pasture and prepared food, resem- 

 blance between, 53 

 Pasture-lands, draining of, 270 



dressings for, 272 



expense of, 271 



how improved, 99 



how to be broken up, 270 



terms of, with landlord, 270 



when to be burnt, 271 

 Pasture, present exhausted state of, 

 28 



how to improve it, 28 

 Payment of task-work, 235 

 Peas, growth of, on chalk and clay 

 farms, 224 



hoeing of, 240 

 Peat and saline manures, 191 

 Pens, size of, 13 



Peroxide of iron, amount of, in 

 drains, 86 

 absence of, in drains at Drayton 

 Manor, 87 

 Peruvian guano, peculiarity of, 195 

 Phosphate of lime, abounds in oil- 

 cake, 181 

 difficulty of solution of, 169 

 its power as a manure for tur- 

 nips, 180 

 quantity in four bushels of 



bones, 169 

 withdrawal of, from pastures, 

 182 

 Phosphorus, how formed, 170 

 Picking stones, payment for, 252 

 Fig-feeding on boards, results of, 223 

 Pigs, article on, 59 



cleanliness in, importance of, 57 

 costiveness in, cure for, 58 

 extremes of temperature to be 



avoided, 57 

 how to choose, 59 

 mode of feeding, 11 

 must be ining, 57 

 on tattening of, 57 

 protection from cold, &c. ne- 

 cessary, 57 

 purging of, cure for, 58 

 steamed food for, 56 

 sty must be warm and airy, 57 

 sun must not scorch their 



backs, 57 

 uniqueness of Mr. Barnes's, 59 

 when fattening must not run 



about, 58 

 when to be cut, 59 

 Pipes most preferable of drain-tiles, 

 97 

 circular, the best, 103 

 how to lay them, 109 

 size of, 105 

 strength of, 104 

 substitution of, for tiles, 103 

 where best made, 104 

 Plans of drains should be laid down, 



101 

 Plants and children, similitude be- 

 tween, 150 

 Plants, depth to which they will send 

 their roots, 104 

 difference in the constituents 



of, 276 

 inorganic constituents of, ob- 

 tjdned from the soil, 276 



