184 



CONTINUOUS CROPPING 



Hay Crop — 



Haymaking in the right way, 



45 

 Haymaking in the wrong way, 



43 

 Right moment to cut tare 



hay, 42 

 Salt to be sprinkled on, when 



stacking, 51 

 Stacking Hints, 49 

 Horses — 



Autumn feed for, 171 

 Dry fodder for, 171 



Implements- — 



Corn drill and its use. The, 32 



Disc harrow. The, 39 



Hay bogies, 48 



Haymaking, 45 



Ploughs and how to use them, 



26 

 Post hole-borer. A, 182 

 Prices of spring-tined harrows, 



34 

 Seed fiddle and its use, 32 

 Spring-tined harrows and their 



use, 31-33 

 Thermometer for testing heat 



of hay, 50 

 Triple cultivator. The, 39 



Kales — 



Labrador, Sowing, 62 

 Marrow-stem, Sowing, 61 

 Thousand-headed, Sowing, 61 



Land cultivation. Tips on, 39 

 Lea land, Potato crop on, no 

 Live stock — 



Albuminoids essential to, 1 53 

 Always feed well, 77 

 As walking manure-carts, 121 

 Feeding standards for, 161-163 

 In- and out-feeding for, 139 

 Loss from underfeeding, 152 

 Products not adequate in 

 Great Britain. 1 7 



Maize, Sowing for dairy feed, 64 

 Mangolds — 



Continuous-cropping way of 

 growing, 97 



Lifting, 10 1 



Liquid manure for, 100 



Mangolds — 



Manuring for, 100 

 Pitting or clamping, 103 

 Plant in damp weather, 99 

 Plant on land last cleared of 



potatoes, 97 

 Prepare land for, with disc and 



cultivator, 98 

 Transplanting from frames, 98 

 Varieties suited to trans- 

 plantation, 99 

 Manures — 

 Acid, 145 

 Alkaline, 145 

 Lime test. The, 146 

 Neutral, 145 

 Nitrogenous, 143 

 Phosphatic, 143 

 Potassic, 143 

 Manuring — 



Continuous crops in moun- 

 tainous districts, 147 

 Scientific principles of, 141 

 Mountain farms — 

 Disc-harrowing, 123 

 Early sowing essential on, 118 

 Grass seeds mixture for, 120 

 Improving the feeding capa- 

 city of the land, 116 

 Labour-saving system for, 125 

 ]\Ianuring the winter pasture, 



147 ; (Modifications, 148) 

 Manuring winter rape pasture, 



149 

 Old-fashioned tillage impos- 

 sible for, 116 

 One-way plough for. A, 122 

 Rotatory crops for, 117 

 Silage making very important 

 on, 120 



Norfolk system of farming.The — 

 History of, 17 

 Out of date, 15 



One cow to every tilled acre as 

 your aim, 136 



Pasture v. Forage crops, 21 

 Pasturing, Advantage of, 114 

 Pigs- 

 Fold alternately with sheep, 



132 

 Forage crops suit d to, 131, 132 



