INDEX. 



339 



Sulphated bones an antidote for the 

 fly, 177 



experiments with, 173, 175, 17? 

 Sulphate of ammonia, use of, 184 

 Sulphate of soda, use of, 183, 190 

 Superphosphate of lime, on tlie use 

 of, 164 



solubility of, 169 



use of, 178, 208, 213 

 Sulphuric acid and bone-dust, pro- 

 perties of, 191 

 Sulphuric acid, agency of, 170 



care required in the use of, 172 



how formed, 168 



how used, 165 



possesses little fertilizing power 

 if used alone, 167 



preferable to muriatic, 167 



properties of, 155 



proportion used, 170, 1/4 



quantity used, 166 



effect of, on potato crops, 189 

 Sward-land, burning and paring of, 

 264, 270 



when and how to be done, 270 



dressings for, 272 



how to be ploughed, 271 

 Swede turnips, curious experiment 

 with, 224 



how to preserve them, 295 



purging effects of, 52 



tap-roots of, how cut, 295 



Table of the value of labour, 253 

 Tares, cost of, per acre, 288 



land on which grown, 287 

 Task-work, measurement of, 235, 

 244 ; note on, 254 



rate of payment for, 235 



various kinds of, 236, 252 

 Tertiary system, character of, 321 

 Thatching, cost of, 244 

 Thin soils, management of, 267, 270 

 Thorough-draining, 76, 98 



security against bad crops, 98 



Mr. Maxwell's experiments in, 

 283 

 Thrashing and dressing, expenses 

 connected with, 64 



practice of, 64 

 Thrashing, cost of, 251 

 Thrashing-machine, on the, 61 

 Tdes, cost of, 124 



how to be laid, 103 



Tile-drains, liabiUty of, to accident, 



78 

 Timber trees, soils for, 320 

 Trajj-rock, of what composed, 152 

 Trees, injury of, to crops, 219 

 Trenching, cost of, 243 

 Turf-dratnmg, 79 

 Turf-drains, how formed, 118 

 Turf most preferable for covering 



drains, 79 

 Turnip crops, effect of bone as food 

 for, 164, 165, 174 176 

 mixture for, 217 ' 

 Turnip-feeding, advantage of, over 



straw, 33 

 Turnips, abundant crop of, 221 

 advantage to, by hoeing, 239 

 great saving of, 53 

 produce of, 28 



produce of, in chalk soil, 149 

 produce of, from the use of 



charcoal, 198 

 quantity of, grown upon three- 

 quarters of an acre, 309 

 Tussac grass, an important addition 

 to our agricultural resources, 

 314 

 beauty of, 315 



expense of collecting seed, 315 

 fattening qualities of, 314 

 fondness of horses and cattle 



for, 314 

 ground for, how laid out, 313 

 how grown, 313 

 on the cultivation of, 313 

 places where it may be grown, 



316, 317 

 properties of, 314 

 slow growth of, 314 

 soft food for a working horse, 314 

 treatment of, 316 

 when to be sown, 316 



United States, mode of applying 



gypsum in the, 157 

 Urine, value and analyzation of, 55 



Vegetables ashes, lime in, 153 

 Vegetables, properties of, 10 

 Vegetation, capillary powers of, 108 

 Ventilation, importance of, 13 

 Vitriolized bone an antidote for the 

 fly, 183 



experiments with, 173,175, 177 



taste of, 168 



