225 



INDEX. 



ACTION of natural forces on land, 

 114119 



Agricultural experiments, 179, 180 



Agricultural teacher, proper func- 

 tion of, 19 



Agriculture as a definite subject, 1 



faulty teaching of, 18 



relations of science to, 3 



Autumn cultivation, 127, 128 



BARE-fallowing', cost of, 122 

 Basic cinder, 176 



CATCH crops, 139 

 Clay-burning, 109 



method and effect of, 110 



Claying, 111 



Clay land, crops for, 190 



not adapted for sheep, 201 



present and past returns 



on, 200 



Clays, presence of iron in, 30 

 Clover and rye grass, 197 



mown and overfed, 192 



peas substituted for, 206 



- sickness, 197, 204 

 "Condition" in soils, 47 

 Constituents of clay soils, 30 

 Corn cultivation, 136 

 Cost of bare fallowing, 122 



Crops, catch, 138140 



for heavy land, t87 



- seed bed for, 188 



transplanting, 189 



Cultivation of land, 114 



aeration by, 115 



aided by natural forces, 



116120 



autumn, 118, 128, 129 



by application of dung, 118 



by frost, 116 



by weather, 119 



corn, 136 



effect on weeds, 115 



for seed bed, 115 



of light soils, 124 



of "roots" on heavy land, 



121123 

 of "roots" on light land, 122 



DEEPENED tillage, by trenching, 

 108 



advantages of, 109 



assists drainage, 111 



destroys " pans," 111 



gradual production of, 109 



objections to, 108 



subsoils, 108, 111 



suitable in various cases,lll 



Diseases of root crops, 196 



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