INDEX. 



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ton, 81. Found in wheat, 154. 

 In soils, 184, 195, 199. Car- 

 bonate and sulphate of, 287, 

 Fresh-burnt, absorbs moisture 

 from the air, 288. Carbonate 

 of, per acre, from marl, 292. 



Limestone, specific gravity of, 

 284. 



Line, the twelfth of an inch, 284. 



Linseed oil, specific gravity of, 

 284. 



Litter, 249, 250, 275. 



Living, see Subsistence. 



Livingston, Chancellor, on the 

 happiness of the farrner, 32. 

 On summer fallows and fallow 

 crops, 170. On the cultivation 

 of lijcerne, 222, 7iote. 



Livre, value of the French, 296. 



Loams, value of, 49. Four classes 

 of, 50. Grasses for, 233, 234. 



London, Horticultural Society of, 

 268, 269. Standard of the Brit- 

 ish measures at, 286. 



Longitude, degrees of, 285. 



Loudon, on average crops of 

 wheat, in England, 23. On 

 classifying soils, 41 ; grasses, 

 212. On the dilierence of qual- 

 ity, in clover hay, 219. On 

 cultivated grasses, 223. On or- 

 namental trees, 253. On gar- 

 dening, 258, 259. 



Low, on the products of Scotch 

 husbandry, 23. On the appli- 

 cation of lime, 79, 81. On sub- 

 soil draining, 103. On the use 

 of the plough, 124. His secret 

 of making good hay, 219. On 

 the acreable products of Scot- 

 land, 267. 



Lucerne, depth of the roots of, 

 114. Soil for, 199, 220. Sea- 

 son and manner of sowing, 220. 

 At'ler-culture of, 221. Uses of, 



221. Produce of, per acre, 222. 

 Livingston's experiments with, 



222, note. Remarks on, 227. 

 Lungs, leaves compared to, 58. 



Contact of air with blood in the, 

 240. 



M. 



McDonald, Euel a journeyman 

 printer with, ix. 



Mahogany, specific gravity of, 

 284. . 



Malleability, caused by heat, 289. 



Manufactures, Deanon,xiv. De- 

 pendence of, on agriculture, 10, 

 12. 



Manure, wasted, 64. The food 

 for plants, 65. Value of, 66, 74, 

 76. Means for increasing, 66, 

 275. On making, in cattle- 

 yards, 67 ; in stables, 68, 203 ; 

 hog-pens, 69 ; sheep-folds, 69 ; 

 from composts, 69, 203 ; from 

 bone-dust, 70, 203 ; horn-shav- 

 ings, 7 1,203; poudrelte,72,203; 

 urette, 72, 203 ; woollen rags, 

 73,203 ; fish, 73 ; sea-weed, 73 ; 

 peat-earth, 73 ; peat-ashes, 73 ; 

 wnod-ashes, 74, 203 ; leached 

 ashes, 74. Badly husbanded, 

 74. Amount of, produced on 

 farms in Great Britain, 75 ; in 

 America, 76. Hints on the ap- 

 plication of, 77, 203. Courteur, 

 on liquid and stable, 77, ??o/e. On 

 using lime and quicklime for, 78, 

 203 ; gypsum, or plaster of Paris, 

 88, 203 ; marl, clay-marl, and 

 shell-marl, 89, 203 ; green sand, 

 90 ; common salt, 90 ; admix- 

 ture of earths, 91. Improve- 

 ments in the use of, 91. Ap- 

 plication of, at Flottbeck, 116, 

 118, 119, 121. On meadows, 

 153, 203, 208. From root-cul- 

 ture, 164. On root crops, 166. 

 From pigeons' dung and hens' 

 dung, 203. Application of, to 

 pastures, 206, 207 ; to mead- 

 ows, 208. Hints on the man- 

 agement of, 245. Stinginess in 

 outlays for, 274. Coventry and 

 Young on making, 275. On 

 Seeley's farm, 275, 276. See 

 Plants. 



JManuring, effects of cropping and, 

 186. 



Marble, specific gravity of, 284. 



