INDEX. 



Leases, necessity for, and advantages of, 84 ; 

 suggestion of provisions in, 310 ; benefits 

 attending, - - 331 



Leontodon taraxacum, (dandelion) use of, as a 

 diuretic, - - 264 



Light, good effects of, on the growth of tares, 



'5 

 Lime, effect of, in destroying fog, and renew- 

 ing grass on mossy lands, and quantity to be 

 used, 6; quantity used per acre, 45; quan- 

 tity per acre used in reclaiming waste land, 

 163, 166, 16 7, 170 

 Linton, John, on the necessity of rem o vin 

 discouragements to agriculture, 112 



Lolium temukntum, (white darnel) bad effects 

 of, on wheat, 242, on the human body, 243 

 Lucern, use of, in feeding horses, 292 



Luccoch, Mr. treatise on sheep and wool, 



486 

 Lychnis dioica, (red and white camphire) ac- 

 count of, - - 245, 259 



M 



M'Dougal, his churn recommended, 155 ; 

 and his expanding hoe, - 223 



Majesty, His, account of the Merino flock be- 

 longing to, - - 430 



Majendie, Lewis Esq. on arable land, in 1790 

 and 1804, - - 104 



Malt, observations on the tax on, 40, 41, 65, 

 68, 71; 5 per cent, on the rental, the average 

 tax on, 41; substitute proposed for the tax 

 on, ib.; effects of the tax on, on farmers, 65; 

 effect of the tax on, on malt-kilns, 71; effcts 

 of tax on, on conversion of tillage into grass 

 land, 85, and danger t« be apprehended there, 

 from, 86 and 94; tax on, acts as a prohibition 

 to the use of beer, 103 ; annual consumption 

 of, 287 ; number of acres necessary to pro- 

 duce annual growth of, - ib, 



Malt-\\<\uor, desirable to reduce the consinnp- 

 tion of, with a view of applying the land 

 for human sustenance, - Jti 



Malthus, Rev. Mr. opinion of the, on the 



effects of importing corn, 277; proportion 

 of inhabitants to a square mile in China, 

 compared with France, 282 ; remarks by, 

 295 ; on a commutation of tithes, 307 ; 

 on the corn laws, and distilleries, 309 ; on 

 cottagers, 316 ; on an increased population, 

 326; on the checks to population, 327 ; on 

 educating the lower classes, 328, et seq. 



Manufactures, effects of, on farmers, 42 



Manures, price of, 53, 58, 59, 104, I2i; pro- 

 portion of, to 100 acres, 108 ; essential to 

 good farming, - - 177 



Alarl, quantity of, used per acre, 58 



Marriages, proportion of, in England and 

 Wales, to the w hole population, 327 



Martyn, Mr. Professor, on the increase of 

 poors rates at Pertenhall, - 39 



Measures, necessity of regulating and equaliz- 

 ing, - - 48,113 



Melampyrum p ratensa, (cow-grass, or cow- 

 wheat) account of, - 271 



Mentha arvensis,{yi\\i mint) efFectsof, oncows, 



264 



Mercurialis perennis, (the dog's mercury) pro- 

 perty of, - - 268 



Merino sheep and wool, account of, by Dr. 

 Parry, 337 \ authors that have written on. 

 ib.; importation of wool in three years, and 

 money paid for it, 340 ; supposed number 

 of Merinos in Spain, 342 ; their appella- 

 tions, ib.: their form, ib.; quality and weight 

 of their fleeces, 343; difference of flocks, 

 344 ; difference in the weight of the fleece 

 occasioned by ihtyolk, ib.; loss of weight in 

 scouring, 345 ; chemical nature of the 

 yolk, ib. etjcq.; loss sustained in freeing the 

 wool from xheyolh, 346; equality of the wool 

 in different parts of the fleece, ib.; the wool 

 of the lambs in general coarser than that of 

 the sheep, ib.; constitution and habits of the 

 Merino sheep, 347 ; the rams only are 

 horned, 348 ; selection of rams, and time 

 of copulation, ib.; increase of the species. 



