INDEX. 



ABSORBING soils, draining of, 184. 



Accidents to which grain is liable, Add. 53 : rain, fogs, dews, frost, 

 53; hail, snow, 54; heat, lightning, calms, variable weather, 55; 

 blights and vermin, 56. 



Account of an improved mode of raising crops of grain by means of 

 a drill-barrow, App. 39. 



Accounts, plan of farming, App. 24. 



regular, why not common among farmers, 67 ; advantages 



to be derived from, 68 ; how to facilitate the keeping of, 68 ; of a 

 farmer not confined to pecuniary transactions, 69 ; annual, of live 

 stock necessary, ib. ; of hay unconsumed, and of grain in store, ib. 



Acre, produce of one, planted with apple-trees, 456 ; expense of sum- 

 mer fallowing one, on clayey soil, App. 37. 



Advantage of giving land to labourers, 45. 



Advantages of bone manure to arable land, Add. 144 ; to grass land, 

 Add. 146. 



After-grass or rowen, 421 ; how fed off in Middlesex, ib. 



Agents necessary or useful to vegetation, App. 8. 



destructive or injurious to vegetation, App. 11. 



Agricultural buildings, principles on which they should be construct- 

 ed, 130 ; Mr Blaikie's observations on the erection of, Add. 112. 



classes, number of actual contributors to the property- 

 tax among the, 504 ; are properly the nation, Add. 157. 



domestic productions should be preferred in the home 



markets, 500, 513. 



implements, 108. 



labour and domestic management, 69, 77. 



labourers, means of improving their condition, App. 45 ; 



number of, in Great Britain, App. 52. 



machines, improvements in, 127, 128. 



professorships, by whom first established, 512. 



prosperity, on what it depends, 500, 502. 



state of a country, means of improving the, 500. 

 system, principle of the, Add. 149 ; arguments in favour 



of the, Add. 150. 

 Agriculture, advantages derived from the establishment of a Board of, 

 510, App. 29 ; ideas of Sully and Colbert on, Add. 149. 

 ' now elevated to the dignity of a science, v. ; requires a 



greater variety of knowledge than any other art, 7 ; preliminary 

 points to the practice of, 7 ; how essentially promoted, 16. 



