INDEX 



AwDERSoN Proctor — his mode of finding the weight of cattle, 35 



Aniinal<: — loss of to the per centage of value, 43 — necessary for the cheapest management of the farm, 95 — need 

 of fodder, litter and drink, for different animals, 104, 106. 



Artichokes — value of, as fodder for cows, 31. 



Ashes — proportion of, in plants, Table, 61. 



Bailet and Cullev, Messrs. — their views of the comparative value of horses or oxen, for labor, &;c. 44. 



p-irley — its absori)tion of nutritive matter, 73 — seed required, and product, 74, 75. 



Block, A. K. — his Table of equivalents of food, 30 — Table of solid substance in different kinds of food, 88. 



Bread — a species of, used for fodder 



Burger, J. — account of him, v. — his estimates of food for sheep, 13 — of men required to keep swine, &c., 15 

 — remarks on the use of cows and bulls for labor, 19 — on the food for horses, 23, 24 — of working oxen, 27 — 

 of fattening oxen, 35. .35 — of ploughing, «fcc., 10 — of manure, &;c., 55 — of modes of husbandry, &,c, 117 — 

 of direction of farms and accounts, 130 — 132. 



Capital — different kinds of, in husbandry, 130. 



Carrots — value of, as food for horses, 2o. 



Cary's gauge for finding the weiglit of cattle, 36. 



Cattle^how many can one man tend at pasture, or summer or winter foddering, U — modes of fattening, 16, 15 

 — modes of finding live weight of, 36 — food of, analysis. Table, 54 — kind of, lo be kept for manuie, 96— num- 

 ber, 101 — weight of manure by one head of. Table, 103 — need of fodder and litter for. 104, 105. 



Clover — its great importance to enrich land, 71, 89 — seed required, and product,Tables, 74, 76. 



CuRWErt, Mr. — his experiments in feeding horses. 25 — his mode of finding the weight of cattle, &;c., 36. 



Dana, Dr. — his analysis of cow dung, 59. 



Day's work— in different kinds of labor, 16, 18,54 — cash value of, 54. 



Decandolle — his tlieory of tlic rotation of crops, 118. 



Depths of planting seed — experiments on, 78. 



Deputat — or allowance, what? 4. 



Dienstbotcn, Dicnstleute or domestics — how divided wages, how many needed? kinds of occupation fitted for, 2 



Director or administrator of a farm — his duties, &;c., 128. 



Digffing — day's work, in what? 16. 



DouisLAS, Mr. — his mode of finding the weight of cattle, 36. 



Droifeld, or Dreifelder-wirthschaft, what? 3, 124. 



Drink — need of for different cattle, 106. 



Dung — of the cowandotlier animals, analysis of, 59, 60, 



Earths — power to take up water. Table, 65. 



Economy— rural ; the organization of the Iiousehold, 1— of Land husbandry, Thaer's definition of, 2. 



Egarten, Egarten-wirtlischaft — meaning of, 3, 117 — number of laborers needed in, 6 — when this mode of hus- 

 bandry may be employed to advantage, 117. 



Ellsworth, Hon. H. L —his mode of fencing the prairies referred to, 19. 



Equivalents of food— taljles of, 13,29, 30, 31. 



Exhausting power of different grains, 73. 



Extensive mode of husbandry, what ? 3. 



Farm accounts — proper mode of keeping Ihrm, 130-132. 



Fattening of oxen, &:c.— remarks on modes of, 34, 35, 37, 38— progress, how judged of, 35— rapid the best, 38. 



Felder-wirthschaft— meaning of the term and when this mode of husbandry is desirable, 117.. 



Fences — advantages and disadvantages of, 18, 19. 



Flesh and tallow — how propoitioned, 40. 



Fodder— importance of a diversity of articles for, 3— conservation, how much needed daily, 23, 29— conservation 

 and melioration, what ? 32— necessity of, how provided for, 23 — amount of consumed in fattening 39— re- 

 sults of experiments in, 40- in wiiat its value consists, 54— in relation to manure, KE'-Tables ; consumption 

 of, 103 — need of, for cattle, 104, 106— proportion of, with litter, to manure, 109, 111— proportion of plants 

 for to plants for manure, 112. 



Frucht-folge, Frucht-wechsel — meaning of, 116. 



Frucht-wechsel-wirthschaf>— meaning of the term, and when this mode of husbandry should be employed, 117, 124 



Furrows, and furrow-slices- length and breadth of, in ploughing, 45, 46, 48. 



Grain — proportion of to straw, 86— its relation to manure, 118. 



Hackcn— comparison of, to the plough, vfec, 50. 



Ilacksel- preparation of,&c., 11— as fodder for cattle, &c., 28, 39. 



Harrowing -horses better for than oxen ; amount in a day,&.c., 51. 



Harvesting — day's work in what? 18. 



Hay— quantity of, one man can bind, weigh out, &c., in a day— day's work in mowing, turning, spreading, load- 

 ing and unloading, &c., 16. 



Horse, horses— Thaer's remarks on food and kepping of 20. 21— Veit's 21—23: Loudon's, 24— British Hus- 

 bandry, Curwen's experiments, 25, 26; Stephens', 26— difference of expense of, and of oxen, &c., 34— 

 comparative amount of labor from them ; preference of, in various things stated by Thaer,41 ; I)y Veit,42, 

 43 ; by Loudon, 43 ; by Bailey and Ci.lley,- teams of, how spanned, 44— number needed for a plough, 

 45_ptopoition of, to land in different countries, 52, 53— urine and dung of, analysed, 60. 



Household— meaning and object of in Land Husbandry, 1— Thaer and Veit's views ; outer and inner, what? 

 2 — outer, doctrine of, how divided ?3 



Humus — what? composition, &c., Thaer's views, .56; Liebig and Sprengel's 57— its power of retaining 

 warmth small ; proportion, plants draw it from the soil, 68— increase of depends on fertility of soil, &,c. 79 

 Husbandry— how to estimate the gain or loss of any proposed method of, 4. 



Income or interest on husbandry— how to be reckoned? 128. 



Indentured laborers, 10. 



lasurance on animals — rates on, in Germany, 43. 



