INDEX. 601 



Threshing : necessity of attending carefully to the conduct of the 



threshers, 24. 



threshing to supply the lean beasts put into the yard in November, 

 512. 



and in December; the worst straw should be threshed out first, 



524. 



Threshihg-mill \ advantages, and ex pence, of these machines, '21. 

 useful directions n-sprcting the construction of ilu-m ; with irou 

 rail-way, granary, <:half-hou-,< , ,Ve. 2,1, 2J1, j 



construction of the stacks, 42(j. 



Town manures ; their value has not been sufficiently ascertained by 



experiments, 47 . 

 opinion, that they answer when the horses have nothing else to 



do, or for back-carriage, but not otherwise, 48. 

 calculation relative to the expence of setting up a team for that 



purpose only, and keeping it the whole year in employ, 48. 

 of the value of the work which this team would perform, or 



in waggons, 4Q. 

 where carriage runs dear, the more valuable manures should be 



brought, 49. 



these speculations demand a large capital, 49. 

 precaution, and attentions, in the application of purchased ma- 

 nures to grass-lands, S/. 



See also the articles Coal ashes ; Manures (Turned In) ; Soot. 

 Travelling : a fortnight's journey through the country once or twice 



a year may be or. much advantage and profit to the farmer, 



52. 

 object of attention in his winter journey, 53. 



in his summer journey, 386. 

 Trefoil, its cultivation, lie/. 



Turnips : different methods of feeding them off by sheep ; drawing 



and carrying, or eating on the land, 1. 

 should not be kept in the ground as a late spring feed for sheep, 



206. 



best time of sowing ; June, 326. 

 manure, and method of spreading, 326. 

 choice and quantity of seed, 327. 

 manuring is the best preventive against the Fly, 327, 328. 



sowing again when a crop is destroyed, 328. 

 early-sown turnips the most liable to mildew, 328. 



Mr. Culley's interesting account of the Northumberland method of 

 cultivation : forming the ridges, 328. 



spreading the dung, and rolling, 32(). 



hoeing, 330. (See also 4O5). 



direction of the drills ; diagonally, or across the ridges, 330, 



331. 



quantity of dung, 33 1 . 



superiority of the drill to the broad-cast method, 331. 



- produce of crops in that county under the system here de- 

 scribed, 332. 

 turnips after Tares j method of mowing the tares, &:c. 332. 



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