INDEX. 185 



Mountainous districts, attention to aspect or exposure of great im- 

 portance in, 38. 



Mowing grass, 122, A pp. 32. 



corn by the scythe, 362 ; when admissible, ib. ; compared 



with mowing by the sickle, ib. 



Mud, as manure, on what its quality depends, 226 ; used in the 

 Netherlands, ib. 



National burdens on farmers, 62; prosperity, on what it depends, 

 500. 



Natural grass, descriptions of the mode of making hay of, in Middle- 

 sex, App. 31. 



hay meadows, 417. 



obstacles to the cultivation of wastes, 154. 



woodlands, different kinds of, 471. 



Night -soil, the richest of all manures, 209 ; disagreeable smell of, bow 

 destroyed, 210. 



Nurseries for hedge-plants, use of, 175. 



Oak, the best English, where produced, 475 ; expense and value of, 

 ib. ; flourishes best in rather moist woods, 472 ; period of cutting, 

 473. 



Oat, the wild, a troublesome weed, 259 ; successful mode of destroy- 

 ing, ib. 



Oats, quantity of seed for a crop of, 327 ; growing at great elevations, 

 37 ; ought to be cut as soon as nearly ripe, 350. 



Oblong fields, advantages of, 146. 



Obstacles, natural, to the cultivation of wastes, 154. 



to improvement in agriculture, a duty most incumbent on 



government to remove, 507. 



Offal, lightness of, of much importance, 91 ; every species of, useful 

 as manure, 211. 



Offices, construction of farm, 131, 133, 134. 



Oil used for steeping seed, 329. 



fish, used as manure, 212. 



Old pastures improved by paring and burning, 239. 



trees, process recommended on, 445, 465. 



Onions, the most profitable article near Aberdeen, 442. 



Open drains or ditches, 186. 



Operations of husbandry, various inquired into, 296. 



Orchards, whether the occupying land as, is advantageous, 456 ; bow 

 should be managed, ib. ; of, on large farms, 457 ; profit of, to the 

 tenant, ib. ; objection to, on large farms, ib. ; advantages stated to 

 be derived from, ib. ; why necessary to be attended to, ib. ; sorts 

 of trees to be raised in, 458 ; mode of planting in, 459 ; kinds of 

 trees and bushes to be preferred, ib. 460 ; under-crops in , 460 ; 

 better cultivated by the spade than the plough, ib. ; while young 

 should be stirred, ib. 



in Gloucestershire are kept in grass, 46 1 ; upper and under 



crops in, near London, ib. ; spaces between the trees, how occupied, 

 ib. ; hops recommended in, ib. ; stock, how to be fed in, 462 ; sheep 



