xiv CONTENTS. 



Section VII. — On Potatoes — two Crops in the Year — extensive Culture 

 recommended— solid Nourishment of, compared with Flour— Culture of 

 Corn recommended as a green or dry Fodder for Cattle— former heavy 

 Losses in Cattle ascribed to improvident management- Notices of dry 

 Seasons and Losses in Cattle from the year 1724 to 1792. — Seasons of 

 Drought produced by the Operation of some general Cause — severe 

 Drought at St. Helena in 1791-2 pervaded the Peninsula of India ; and 

 felt at Montserrat in the West Indies, . - . page 36 



Section VIII. — Modes proposed to the Landholders for averting the Evils 

 incident to Seasons of Drought, - - - 44 



^ncTio^YK.— On Pin easter Trees, - - - - 47 



Section X. — On Guana, or Sea-fotcl Dung — and Experiments in the 

 Culture of Mangel IVurzel, - - - 50 



Section XI. — On naked Barley or Barley Wheat — Report and Opinions 

 of Warren Hastings, Esq., and of Sir Hugh Inglis, on the Utility and 

 Importance of this valuable Corn — Singular Account of its Introduction 

 at St. Helena, - - - _ _ 59 



Section XII. — On clearing Lands of Grubs — Detail of a Set of Experi- 

 ments, by which is ascertained an effectual Mode of clearing Lands of 

 those destructive Insects, - _ _ _ - 68 



Section XIII. — Notes of Experiments in the Culture of Wheat, Barley, 

 and Oats — green Crops of Fodder recommended — Suggestions for the 



I Improvement of the Pasture Lands — Evil Effects of Feeding a Population 

 — Comparison of Exports from the Farms in 1789 and 1809. — Plans 

 suggested for improving the Island, - - _ 77 



Section XIV. — Observations upon the Rainy Seasons, from the year 1711 

 to 1811 — Notices onthe Fall of heavy Rains , Jine Shotcers, and drizzling 

 Rain, from the \st of January 1806, to the Slst December, 1811 — erro- 

 neous Notions upon the Effects of heavy Rains at St. Helena; sometimes 

 damage the low Grounds, but always favourable to cultivated and 

 pasture Lands. Ahtttract of the Fall of Rain from February 1811 fc/ 

 February 1812, - - - - - - ^^8 



