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INDEX. 



•water from the, 288. Conden- 

 sation of, 288, Cause of its 

 elasticity, 289. Weight of, 290. 

 See Atmosphere, and Atmos- 

 pheric. 



Air-gun, principle of the, 288. 



Albany Argus, The, commenced 

 by Buel, x. 



Alcohol, specific gravity of, 284. 



Alkalies, absorption of water from 

 the air by, 288. 



Alluvial soils, composition of, 48. 

 Use to be made of, 49, 233. 

 See Meadows. 



Alternation of crops,! 16, 152. Ne- 

 cessity of, 153. Of culmiferous 

 and leguminous plants, 158,! 

 200. Farm-stock embraced in | 

 the system of, 157. Further re- ' 

 marks on, 186, 191. Rules re- | 

 specting, 200. Of grass grounds 

 with arable crops, 209, 233. 

 Remarks on herbage plants, or 

 those fitted for, 212. See Ro- 

 tation. 



American, Cock's-foot grass, 228. 

 Quintal, 286. 



Anahuac, Humboldt on vegetation 

 on the Cordilleras of, 202, 7wte. 



Analogy between animal and veg- 

 etable nutrition, 57, 188. 



Animal and vegetable nutrition, 

 analogy between^ 57, 188. 



Appendix, 283. 



Apples, fourteen hundred varieties | 

 of, 269. Specific gravity of the 

 juice of, 290. 



Aqua fortis, 291. 



Area of a circle, 283, 284. 



Areometer, 290. 



Armstrong, on the number of 

 plants in meadows, 94. 



Arpent, the French, 285. 



Ashes, manure from, 73, 74, 92, 

 203. 



Associations, importance of, 271. 

 See Agricultural Societies, and 

 Horticultural Societies. 



Atmosphere, 237. Constituent 

 parts of the, 238, 289, 291 ; 

 nitrogen, hydrogen, and car- 



bonic acid gas, 238. Water in, 



239. Chaptal on the, 239. 



Quantity of, inhaled, 240. 



Causes of vitiation of, 241. 



Other matters commingling with 



the, 243. Uses to be derived 



from this knowledge, 243. See 



Air. 

 Atmospheric pressure, effect of, 



289. See Air, and Atmosphere. 

 Auger, use of the, in draining, 



f08 — 110. 

 Avoirdupois pound, 286. 

 Axle, wheel and, 283. Power 



gained in the, 284. 



B. 



Bacon, Lord, cited, respecting the 

 garden, 270. 



Baldwin, Simeon, 262. 



Bangor Ornamental Tree Society, 

 255. 



Barilla, in Glauber's salts, 291. 



Bar-iron, specific gravity of, 284. 



Barley, soil for, f83, 199. Ex- 

 haustion by, 190. 



Barn-yards, hints on, 67. 



Barrows. See Drill-barrows. 



Beans, weight of, 287. 



Beatson, system of, on Knowle 

 farm, 179. 



Bedford, Duke of, table respect- 

 ing grasses experimented upon 

 bv", 226. 



Beef, the fattening of, 60, 259. In 

 England, 164. See Cattle. 



Beekman, James P., on a commit- 

 tee of publication for The Cul- 

 tivatoi', XV. 



Beer, specific gravity of, 284. 



Beets, cultivation of, in France, 

 163. Should be sown in rows, 

 168. 



Bement's drill-barrow, 152. 



Bengal , value of the rupee of, 296. 



Berkshire county. Agricultural So- 

 ciety in, and its effects, 265. 



Bernouilli, on the shape of the 

 earth, 285. 



Biot, on the length of a degree, 285. 



Bisulphuret of carbon, 292 



