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tice of sowing, 209. Error in 

 not sowing, 21 1. 



Gravelly soils, 43, 234. 



Great Britain, Humphrey on agri- 

 culture of, 10. Grain raised in, 

 11. Population of, 11. Com- 

 pared with the United States, as 

 to territory, 12. Corn harvest 

 in, 22. Progress of the new 

 husbandry in, 62. Alternation 

 of crops in, 153. Clover in, 

 157, 213. Introduction of tur- 

 nips into, 163. Greg's system 

 in, 174. Beatson's system, 

 179. Lucerne in, 213. First 

 cultivation of forage grasses in, 

 224. Benefited by Agricultu- 

 ral Societies, 2G8. 



Green crops, ploughed in, 116, 

 118, 185, 198. 



Green gage, 269. 



Green sand, a manure, 90, 92. 



Greg's system of substituting fal- 

 low crops for naked fallows, 174. 



Grisenthwaite, on looseness of 

 texture in soils, 36. 



Guilder of the Netherlands, value 

 of the, 296. 



Guinea, value of the English, 296. 



Gypsum, a manure, 88, 92, 203. 

 On meadows, 208, 236. In 

 America, 213. On clover, 216. 

 Chemical formation of, 287. 



H. 



Habits, on improving personal and 

 domestic, 243. 



Half Joliannes, weight and value 

 of the, 296. 



Hamburgh, value of the mark ban- 

 co of, 296. 



Hand, allowance for the, in meas- 

 uring horses, 285. 



Happiness, agriculture as a means 

 of, 32, 277. From planting 

 tree3, agriculture, and garden- 

 ing, 258, 259, 277. 



Hard fescue grass, 227. 



Harris, Dr., on exercise, 29. 



Harris, David, products and sales 

 of the farm of, 160. 



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Harrowing, winter grain in the 

 Spring, 215. Lucerne, 221. 

 Meadows, 235. 



Harrows, 120. Remarks and cuts 

 on the use and construction of, 

 144,208, 211. 



Hatchet, on ox-horn shavings, 71. 



Hay, from peaty soils, 48. On 

 making, from clover, 216. The 

 secret of making, 219. 



Headlands, on dispensing with, 

 113. Marking oft", 131. 



Health, agriculture benefits a na- 

 tion's physical and moral, 15 ; 

 and promotes individual, 28, 

 259. Hints on, 243. From 

 gardening, 258. 



Heaped measure, per bushel, 287. 



Heat, chemical effect of, 288, 

 289. 



Hens' dung, a manure, 203. 



Herbage plants, 212. Clovers, 

 212. Lucerne, 220. 



Herds-grass, 225, 226, 235. 



Highland Society of Scotland, ben- 



. efits from the, 266. Means a- 

 dopted by the, 267. 



Hills, table showing the number 

 of, on an acre, 294. 



Hofwyl Agricultural School farm, 

 24. 



Hogs, should root under horse-sta- 

 bles, 69. The manure of, 69. 

 Grass and roots conipared to, 

 188. At the Glasgow show, 

 268. 



Home, attachments to, 253. 



Honey, specific gravity of, 284. 



Horn-shavings, as a manure, 71. 

 Application of, 72, 203. 



Horse-plum, 269. 



Horses, in ploughing, 141. Crops 

 compared to, 188. At the Glas- 

 gow show, 268. Measurement 

 of, by hands, 285. 



Horticultural Societies, Address for 

 the New Haven, xix, 261. Ex- 

 hibitions by, 263, 269. Utility 

 of, 265. Efiects of the Boston, 

 Philadelphia, and London, 268. 



Horticulture, beneficial effects of, 

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