INDEX. 167 



British statesmen, unfavourable idea entertained by, of the ability of 



this country to raise grain for its consumption, App. 28. 

 Broad-cast, or sowing on the surface, mode of, 331. 

 -- system, admission in favour of the, 331. 

 machines for sowing, 



Broom, soil preferred by, 155. 



Bromus arvensis, mollis, and erectus, their properties, Add. 91, 93. 



Broivn, Mr, his estimate of the produce of straw from different crops, 

 362 ; statement of surplus marketable produce, 500 ; his farm in 

 East Lothian, with a population of 91 persons, how managed, 581. 



Buildings, farm, general rules for, 130. 



Bull, when he may be first used, 96 ; his offspring when impaired, 

 ib. , 



Bull-calves, modes of rearing, Add. 115. 



Bullock, short- horned, progress of a, Add. 77. 



Burdens, necessity of knowing the real amount of, 60 ; parochial, 

 what, ib. ; an assessment for the maintenance of the poor, 61 ; na- 

 tional, 62 ; miscellaneous, ib. ; public, by whom to be paid, 63 ; 

 vexations arising from uncertain, 63. 



-- peculiarly affecting agriculture, 578. 



Burning turf for improving wastes, 159; modes of, 241. 



Bush-draining, Essex method of, 190. 



Butter, remarks on the modes of making, Add. 122. 



Cabbages, curious mode of preserving from the caterpillar, Add. 76. 

 Calcareous manures, what comprehended under the term, 213 ; ne- 



cessary for the improvement of peat, 166. 

 Calcined chalk, its qualities as manure, 221. 

 Caledonian Horticultural Society, objects of the, 455. 

 Calms, effects of, Add. 55. 

 Calves, feeding of, for veal, long practised, Add. 117 ; mode of sup- 



plying the London market with, ib. ; best conducted system of feed- 



ing, in Lanarkshire, ib. 

 Canals, advantages of, to agriculture, 516 ; ought to be encouraged 



by Government, 517; this principle at last sanctioned by Parlia- 



ment, ib. 

 Capital, what necessary in farming, 64 ; no tenant can he secure with- 



out a surplus at command, 65 ; a grazing farmer, what proportion 



should bear to his rent, ib. ; what required for arable farms, ib. ; 



for a mixture of arable and grass farming, 66 ; divided into three 



branches, ib. ; profit on, as stated by Mr Hennie, 67 ; as estimated 



by Mr Mondez, ib. See also Notes, 10. 

 Carse of Gowrie, mode of draining in the, 187. 

 Carses, what so called in Scotland, 29. 

 Carrot-husbandry in the Sandlings, one of the most interesting ob- 



jects in British agriculture, 19. 



Carrots, uses of, 19 ; tried on fen-land with success, 26. 

 Cars, Irish, what their advantage, and why recommended by Bake- 



well and Wilkes, 124. 

 Carts, why the cheapest and best kind of carriage for the farmer, 



122; arguments for and against single horse, 123; double boree, 



