INDEX. 193 



portions of, for different crops, 326 ; ought not to be distributed 

 with too rigid economy, 327 ; preparing it for sowing, 328. 



Seed, how to separate imperfect from sound, 328. 



Seed-corn, transplanting, the most effectual means of saving, 343. 



Semination, various modes of, 331. 



Servants, the best system that can be adopted for paying and pro- 

 viding for, 73 ; practice of putting them on board wages reprobated, 

 74; .should be deprived of injurious perquisites, 76; female, how 

 to be employed, 77. 



Sheaf-bands used in the Isle of Thanet described, 354. 



Sheep, advantages of folding on sandy soils, 19 ; should be good hand- 

 lers, 91 ; principle on which Bakewell formed his celebrated stock 

 of, 93 ; plan of breeding, ib. 94 ; straw applied to the feeding of, 

 368 ; variously employed during the process of vegetation, 347 ; 

 treading wheat, when beneficial, ib. ; how injurious to orchards, 

 462 ; an effectual fence against, 174 ; number of, fed on an acre of 

 grass land, 411. 



dung, use of, 207 ; how collected, 208. 



Sheep-folding, a point much controverted, 208 ; a most useful plan of, 

 lately adopted, ib. 



Shells, sea, used as manure, 222. 



Shell-marl, of what consists, and to what may be applied, 222. 



Short-horned bullock, account of the progress of a, Add. 75. 



Shrubs, land covered with, well adapted for cultivation, 155. 



Sickles, jagged on the edge preferred, 251 ; reaping by, how perform- 

 ed, 541. 



Silver-fir, the, calculated for the outside of plantations, 483. 



Sinclair, Mr George, his communication respecting pastures, Add. 

 82. 



Situation, the system of farming, and its expense, how far connected 

 with, 39 ; in respect to markets, ib. ; conveyance, ib. ; manures, 

 40; fuel, ib. 



Size of farms, remarks on the, 41, App. 1 ; ought to depend upon 

 the circumstances of a country, App. 7. 



of stock, arguments in favour of a large or small, 84, 85. 



Slugs and snails, how to be destroyed, 446, Add. 72. 



Small farms, why formerly more advantageous than now, 41 ; argu- 

 ments for and against, ib. 42, App. 1. 



Smut, its nature, Add. 56 ; modes of preventing, Add. 57 ; cold water 

 and lime, ib. ; hot water and lime, ib. ; salt- water, Add. 58 ; 

 urine pickle, ib. ; solutions of various kinds, ib. 59. 



grain how cleaned from, 360 ; infallible remedy for preventing, 



Add. 102. 



Snow, effects of, Add. 54 ; favourable to the young plant, ib. 



Soapers' waste, properties of, and what lands best calculated for, 223 ; 

 where tried and failed, ib. ; a good manure for gardens, 446. 



Sod-knife, the, 193. 



Sods, mode of burning, 241 ; process how facilitated by the use of 

 portable furnaces, 241 ; expense of, 242. 



Soil, definition and general character of, 16; sandy, 18; gravel, 21 ; 

 clay, 23; peat, 25; chalk, 27; alluvial, 29; marshy, ib; loam, 30. 



