340 



INDEX. 



Warmth an equivalent for food, 19 

 Warmth of a dry soil, 76 

 Wanies's (Mr.) feeding, ample re- 

 turns by, 25 

 cattle, profits realized by, 41 

 Warp-soils, varieties of, 92 



difference as to the necessity of 

 draining- of, 93 

 Washing the food prejudicial, 54 

 Waste-land, effect of lime on, 154 

 Water, affinity of, for vpater, 278 

 a conductor of heat to the soil, 



108 

 the farmer's best friend, 107 

 Water and air, action of, 135 

 Water in ditches, great utility of, 94 

 Water-power machine, cost and rate 

 of thrashing of, 61, 65 

 how to ascertain the power of, 

 62 

 Water, quantity of, in different food, 

 19 

 quantity to be mixed with acid, 

 173, 178 

 Water-veins, presence of, 90 

 Wet land, bow to diy it, 218 

 Wheat plant, quantity of salt in 



which it will flourish, 93 

 Wheat plants, mjury to, by sods, 



&c., 260 

 Wheat, mowing of, preferable to 

 reaping, 237 ; cost of, 237 

 hoeing of, 240 



Wheat, on the cultivation of, 296 

 quantity of seed to be sown, 297 

 premature decay in, 298 

 preparation of land for, 297 

 rotation of sowing with other 



crops, 296 

 used as a compound, 24 

 White mustard, article on, 289 

 a healthy food for sheep, 291 

 an antidote to wireworm, 291 

 Burrouglies's (Mr) experiment 

 with, 290 ; note on, by Mr. 

 Pusey, 292 

 quantity sown per acre, 290 

 state of land for sowing, 290 

 when to be ploughed in, 291 

 when to be sown, 290 

 will grow on any soil, 289 

 White turnips good for fattening 



lamb, 54 

 Winnowing-machine, uses, &c., of 



the, 67 

 Winter manures, quantity of ammo- 

 nia in, 145 

 Winter treatment of cattle, 15 

 Wood-drains, cost of, 119 

 how formed, 118 

 where to be adopted, 119 

 Work, quantity done in a given 

 time, 235 



Yellow and purple clover, experi- 

 ments with, 281 



Londou : Primed by Stewakt and MtrniAV, Old Bailey. 



