GENERAL INDEX. 



1251 



Beaks of birds, 1862. 



Beans, Carob, 1104. 



Bean drills, 2683 ; Weir's expanding, 2684. 



Beans, 5222 ; drilling of, 5223, varieties of, 5224; 



choice of, 5226 ; the best soils for, 5227 ; climate 



for, 5232; sowing, 5233; dibbling, 5237; after 



culture of, 5240 ; reaping, 5244 ; stacking, 5247 ; 



threshing, 5248; produce of, 5249; application 



of, 5251 ; diseases of, 5255. 

 Beans, insects injurious to, 7666. 

 Beasts of labour, 2014. 

 Beatson's contrivance for preventing ruts in roads, 



3746. 

 Beatson, Major-General Alexander, his work on 



agriculture, page 1213. A. D. 1820 ; new theory 



of roads, 3695. 

 Bcaunie, Antoine, his work on agriculture, page 



1216. A. D. 1770. 

 Bed of a river, &c., 4420. 

 Beddoes, Thomzis, M.D., his works on agriculture, 



page 1212. A. D. 1808. 

 Bedford House of Industry, 7784. 

 Bedfordshire, statistics of, 7784. 

 Bee, the common, 7602 ; feeding, 7608; swarming, 



7610 ; suffocating, 7614 ; produce and profit, 7615., 

 Bees in Perthshire, 7849; in the 16th century, 248; 



of Galloway, 7810; rearing of, in Hungary, 631 ; 



in Poland, 655. 

 Bclair, A. P. Julienne de, his work on agriculture, 



page 1217. A. D. 1794. 

 Bclgrove, William, his work on agriculture, page 



1223. A.D. 1755. 

 Bell, Benjamin, F.R.S.E.,his work on agriculture, 



page 1212. A. D. 1802. 

 Bell's reaping machine, 2737. 

 Bend, a, 4417. 



Bends for ship-timber, mode of pruning, for produc- 

 ing, 4000. 

 Benetti, Santo, his work on agriculture, page 1222. 



A. D. 1810. 

 Benin, description of, 1106. 

 Benzoin, 1484. 



Berkshire, statistics of, 7790. 

 Berry of plants, 1S5.5. 

 Berry, the Rev. Henry, his opinion on the choice 



of live stock for breeding and feeding, 4851 ; his 



work on agriculture, page 1214. A. D. 1830. 

 Berthelot, his work on agriculture, page 1216. A. D. 



1782. 

 Bertrand, Elie, his works on agriculture, page 1215. 



A. D. 1764. 

 Bertrand, his work on agriculture, page 1217. A. D. 



1794; his work on agriculture, page 1221. A.D.1780. 

 Bertrand, Jean, his work on agriculture, page 1215 



A.D. 1764. 

 Bertrochus, Dionysius, his work on agriculture, 



page 1221. A. D. 1496. 

 Berwickshire, statistics of, 7835. 

 Besoms used in farming, 2468. 

 Betel leaf of Sumatra, 1024. 

 Bexon, Gabriel Leopold Charles Ame, his works on 



agriculture, page 1216. A. D. 1773. 

 Bibliography, agricultural, of North America, 7908. 

 Bibliography of British agriculture, 7898 ; of French 



agriculture, 7900 ; of Gerpian agriculture, 7901 ; 



of Italian agriculture, 7902. 

 Bidet, M., his work on agriculture, page 1221. A. D. 



1778. 

 Billington's opinion on pruning, 3990. 

 Binot, the, 2620. 

 Birch wine, 7799. 

 Birds, foreign aquatic, 7567 ; gallinaceous, (see cock 



and hen), 7439; injurious to agriculture, 7639; 



of luxury which are or may be cultivated by 



farmers, 7531 ; singing, 7563 ; breeding and rear- 

 ing, 7565. 

 Birkbeck, Morris, Esq., his works on agriculture, 



page 1213. A. D. 1815. 

 Birman empire, chmateof the, 934; seasons of the, 



935 ; soil of the, 936 ; cattle of the, 937 ; plants 



and trees, 938 ; animals of the, 939. 

 Biroli, Giovanni, his works on agriculture, page 



1221. A. D. 1807. 

 Bitter principle, the, in vegetables, 1421. 

 Bixa Orellana, 1230. 

 Bizkaub, his work on agriculture, page 1219. A. D. 



1786. 

 Black, James, his work on agriculture, page 1209. 



A. D. 1777. 

 Blackwell, Alexander, M. D. , his work on agricul- 

 ture, p^e 1208. A. D. 1741. 

 JBlaikie, Francis, his works on agriculture, page 



1213. A. D. 1819. 



4 



Blair Drumraond, the moss of, 2183; the water 

 wheel at, 2187. 



Blanks in plantations, filling up, 3983. 



Blavet, his work on agriculture, page 1215. A.D. 1755. 



Bleaching flax, 5904. 



Blight, the, 1687 ; from cold and frosty winds. 1688 ; 

 from sultry and pestilential vapour, 1689 ; from 

 want of nourishment, 1690; originating in i^ngi, 

 1691. 



Blith, Walter, his works on agriculture, page 1207. 

 A. D. 1649. 



Blood, as a manure, 2252, 



Bloom, 1470. 



Blubber, as a manure, 2247. 



Blues, vegetable, the finest of, for dyeing, 1415. 



Blythe^s Improver improved, 251. 



Board of Agriculture, the, 7915. 



Bogs, drainage of, 4254; improvement of, 4547; 

 meadows, 5787 ; making the hay of, 804 ; of Ire- 

 land, examination of the, 820. 



Boilers, 2806. 



Boiling machines, 2806. 



Bolting-machine, a hand, 2552. 



Bonafous, M. Mathieu, his work on agriculture, 

 page 1222. A. D. 1827. 



Bone-ashes as a manure, 2303. 



Bone-breaking machine, 2554. 



Bones of animals, 1881 ; increase in size of the, 1884 ; 

 reproduction of the, 1886; articulation of the, 

 1888 ; as a manure, 224a 



Bone manure. 4979. 



Bonnemain, his work on agriculture, page 1218. 

 A.D. 1816. 



Book farmers, p. 1177. 



Book-keeping, farm. Trotter's method of, 4885. 



Books on agriculture, Spanish and Portuguese, 

 7904 ; Flemish and Dutch, 7iK)5 ; Swedish and Da- 

 nish, 7906 ; Polish and Russian, 7907 ; American, 

 7908. 



Bootan, climate of, 1014 ; surface of, 1015. 



Boots worn in irrigation, 4403. 



Bar eke, H. A. Graf en, his work on agriculture, page 



1219. A.D. 1779. 



Bordley, J. B., his work on agriculttire, page 1223. 



A. D. 1801. 

 Borer, use of the, in well-digging, 4482. 

 Boring instruments. Good's improved, 2507. 

 Boring the earth for spring water, 4485 ; operation 



of, 4486. 

 Boring trees, 1674. 

 Borneo, agriculture of, 1028. 

 Bornot, M. A., his work on agriculture, page 1218. 



A.D. 1817. 

 Borro, Alessandrodel, his work on agriculture, page 



1221. A. D. 1718. 

 Bosc, K. Ad. H. von., his work on agriculture, page 



1220. A.D. 1792. 



Bosc, Th., his works on agriculture, page 1218. A. D. 



1823. 

 Bostrichus pinip^rdus, 537. 

 Boswell, George, his work on agriculture, page 1209. 



A. D. 1780. 

 Boucher d'Argis, Antohine Gaspard, his work on 



agriculture, page 1215. A. D. 1/49. 

 Bourbon, Isle of, 1143. 

 Bouthier, his work on agriculture, page 1216. A. D. 



1780. 

 Boyce's first attempt at a reaping machine, 2732. 

 Boys, John, his work on agriculture, page 1211. 



A.D. 1796. 

 Bradley, Richard, F.R.S., his works on agriculture, 



page 1207. A. D. 1721. 

 Brain, the, 1913 ; functions of the, 1915. 

 Brake, the common, 2700 ; Wilkie's parallel adjust. 



ing, 2656. 

 Branches of a plant, 1309 ; of trees, anomalies in the, 



ICOl. 

 Brazil, description of, 1232 ; vegetable productions 



of, 1233 ; live stock of, 1238. 

 Bread-corn, the, of temperate climates, 1784. 

 Breast -plough, used in irrigation, 4394. 

 Breed, when improved, 2010. 

 Breed of animals, improvement of a, 2023. 

 Breeding, choice of live stock for the purpose of, 



4835. 

 Bridekirk, plan of the village of, 3850. 

 Bridges, 3110 ; on roads, 3611. 

 Bridge, portable, for passing sheep over marsh 



ditches, 7781. 

 Bridgewater, Duke of, the father of canals in Eng- 

 land, S804. 

 Britain, agriculture of; benefited by the revolution, 



763 ; progress in the agriculture of, from the revo. 

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