314 GLOSSARY. 



To Soil, fo feed stock, through the Summer, with grass, and other 

 herbage, cut green, for iheai. 



Soiling, see p. 221. 



Soils, see Alluvial, Calcareous, Clayey, Ferruginous, Peaty, Prim- 

 Hive, Saline, Sandy, Secondary. 



Sole, (of the sod,) the bottom of the sod. 



Solidity, density, solid contents. See p. 283. 



Soluble, capable of dissolution or separation of parts ; as sugar is so- 

 luble in water. 



Soluble Mutters, organic matters, which can be dissolved by the wa- 

 ters of the soil. 



Solution, the perfect union of a solid substance with a fluid. 



Solvent, capable of being dissolved ; soluble. 



Spent ashes, the same as leached ashes. 



Spikes, (of flowers.) the ears, or those parts containing the seed. 



Spiked roller, an instrument, in the form of a common roller, with 

 spikes driven into the surface, to loosen old greensward lands. 



Split plough, a plough having a mould board on each side, or a double 

 mould board. 



Spo7igioles, the extreme points, or mouths, of roots ; chyle or sap 

 carrying vessels. 



Square, (of a number,) the product of any number mutiplied by itself; 

 as four, is the square of two ; nine, of three ; sixteen, of four, &c. 



Staple, a principal commodity or production of a country ; the partic- 

 ular substance or original quality of a soil. 



Statute acre, the acre, as established by law or statute ; the legal or 

 correct measurement. 



Steepland, hilly land ; slopes much inclined from a horizontal plane. 



Stilts, (of a plough,) the supports or handles. 



Stimulus, (plural stimuli^) a strong motive or excitement. 



Stollens, or Stolons, roots that produce suckers or fruits ; as of tl^ 

 potato, which produce tubers, or of the quack or June grasses, 

 which send up shoots or suckers. 



Stoloniferous, producing suckers or fruit, at the roots. 



Stook, a shock of corn, containing twelve sheaves. 



To Stook, to set up the sheaves in stooks. 



Strata, the plural of stratum, beds or layers of earth, or other sub- 

 stances. 



Stratification^ the arrangement of rocks in strata or layers. 



Strath, a vale ; a bottom. 



Stratum, a bed, or layer, naturally or artificially formed, distinct from 

 the adjacent matter. 



Struckbrett, double, a German term for mouldboards fixed to the 

 plough. 



Stubble, the stumps of wheat and other grains, left in the ground ; the 

 part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle. 



Sub, a Latin prefix, signifying under or below. 



Subacetate of copper, verdigris. 



Sub-aquatic, living partly under water. 



Sub-soil, the soil lying directly under the vegetable soil which lies on 

 the surface. See p. 51. 



Subtend, to be extended under. 



