190 INDEX. 



Rennie, George, Esq. model of farming accounts by, App. 24. 



Rent defined, 53 ; why ought to be restricted to money-payments, 

 ib. ; amount of, depends on many circumstances, ib. ; poor land 

 not capable of paying the same proportion of, ib. ; dependent on the 

 capital of the farmer, 54* ; high prices of corn and meat necessary 

 to the existence of, 55 ; what considered a fair proportion of, in 

 Scotland, 56, 57 ; must be paid out of disposable produce, 58 ; 

 table of, on arable farms, 56 ; periods of payment, 59. 



of gardens, 453. 



Rents, mode of paying, 58 ; periods of paying, ib. 



Repairs, average expense of, 136 ; by whom done, 136, 137. 



Ribbing, a mode of cultivating wheat in rows, 340. 



Ridges, proper length of, 3 JO; breadth of, ib. ; arguments in favour 

 of varying, 311 ; state of, in Suffolk and Essex, 312; mode of 

 having covered drains in the furrows of broad, where useful, ib. ; 

 sketch of, ib. ; breadth of, on what must depend, ib. ; straightness 

 of, 313 ; height of, 314 ; line of their direction, ib. ; ploughing of, 

 315 ; bad effect of short, exemplified in a table, 306. 



Ridging, where practicable, 309 t 



Rigby, Dr, his opinion as to the superior advantages of large farms, 

 App. 3. 



River warping in Italy, 290 ; necessity its parent, ib. ; originated 

 from accident on the banks of the Humber, ib. 



Rivers, protection against, 293 ; reclaiming land at the entrance of 

 large, 294. 



Rivulet, water how to be conveyed from a, to fields, 140. 



Road, necessity of a good piece of, at every gate, 1 47. 



Road-scrapings, used with advantage as compost, 226. 



Roads, the formation and improvement of, 147 ; good, how easily to 

 be made arid kept up, ib. 



and bridges, among the first means of introducing improve- 

 ments into a country, 516. 



Rocks, mode of clearing away, 158. 



Roller,, a wooden, recommended by Lord Kames, 320 ; the drill pre- 

 ferred by others, ib. ; a heavy, why preferable to a light, 321. 



Rollers, various, their uses, 125. 



Rolling, why deemed the fourth principal operation in agriculture, 

 320 ; its advantages, ib. ; when essential, ib. ; how executed to 

 most advantage, 321. 



Root-weeds, the destruction of, how to be effected, 260, 262. 



Roscoe, Mr, his method of improving Chat-moss, 166; result of ex- 

 periments by, 166. 



Rot, whence it probably proceeds, 194; prevented, 183. 



Rotation of crops adopted by the market gardeners near Edinburgh, 

 449. 



followed by Mr Hunter, Add. 110. 



Rotations of crops best adapted for different soils and situations, 

 376 ; great improvements recently made respecting, ib. ; general 

 principles regulating, 377 ; crops usually raised in Great Britain, 

 378. 



various sorts of, 379 ; of two years, ib. ; of three years, ib. ; 



