192 INDEX. 



Salt supposed useful in preventing mildew, Add. 68. 



Salt-marshes, 29, 153. 



Salt-spray injurious to vegetation, 13. 



Salted hay, of great use to sheep, Add. 103. 



Salting hay, how practised in Derbyshire, 429, Add. 103. 



Sand t how cultivated in Flanders, 20 ; crops cultivated on, 378. 



Sandlings of Suffolk, carrot husbandry in, 19. 



Sandy lands, a rotation of six may be adopted in, 383. 



Sandy soils, how farmed with considerable advantage, 19 ; rich, are 

 invaluable, ib ; in Norfolk and Suffolk, how rendered valuable, ib. 

 20; three rules necessary in the management of, 21 ; fertility of, 

 how far in proportion to the fall of rain, ib. ; inland, when to be 

 planted with fir, 165 ; of the Pays de Waes, 20. 



small value of, 18; best means of improving the texture 



of, ib. ; calculated for sheep, ib. ; what crops raised on, 19, 20 ; 

 must not be pared and burned, 239. 



Scarifier, or grubber, utility and formation of, 114; the most effec- 

 tual instrument for extirpating root- weeds, 266 ; established in the 

 Lothians, 317. 



Scarifying and putting in crops without ploughing, 316 ; doctrine 

 relative to, worth the attention of the practical farmer, ib. ; an ex- 

 periment on the effects of, compared with spring-ploughing, when 

 tried, 317 ; practice of, where become predominant, ib. ; tried suc- 

 cessfully in autumn, 318. 



Scarifying the turf, when preferable to rolling, 415. 



Science of agriculture, how promoted, 510. 



Scotch Jir or pine, its properties, 482 ; two varieties of the, 483. 



Scotch pine or fir, its qualities and uses, 482. 



Scrapings of roads used as manures, 226. 



Sciiffler, the, described, 113. 



Scuffling, where preferred to harrowing, 319. 



Scythe, mowing grain by the, 352. 



Sea, why it communicates warmth in winter, 13 ; influence of proxi- 

 mity to the, ib. 



protection against the, 291 ; reclaiming land from the, 294. 



Sea-coast, plantations on the, 486. 



Sea-ooze, or warp, its application, 226. 



Sea-pine peculiarly fitted for maritime situations, 486. 



Sea-sand, where particularly useful, 



Sea-shells, an abundant manure, 222. 



Sea-water, employed in irrigation, 276. 



Sea-ware, advantages of, above other manures, 227. 



Sea-weeds, their importance as manure, 227 ; their ashes used as ma- 

 nure, 231. 



Season, effects of a rainy, on the produce of the soil, 12; moderately 

 dry, how productive of grain, 12. 



Seasons, regularity and variation of the, 13, 14. 



Seed, on the choice of, 321 ; change of, 322 ; quantity of, 324 ; ge- 

 neral rules relative to, ib. ; climate, soil, season, weather, operation 

 of sowing, quality and size of seed considered, 324, 35, 326 ; pro- 



