Index. 231 



Luxuriance of crops, 94, 127 

 Luzula cainpestris, 138 



MAGNESIA in wheat and barley crops, 89, 142 



hay crop, 142, 147, 155, 157, 166, 170, 171, 173, 183, 



192, 205 



recovered, and not recovered, in crops, 202 

 Malt tax, 130 



Manures, composition of, 32, 139 

 Manuring, autumn and spring, 97, 98, 188, 197, 225 



rational principles of, 189 

 Maturation, 129, 153, 183, 208 

 Meadow clover (see Trifoliuin pratense) 

 fescue (see Festuca pratensis) 

 foxtail (see Alopecurus) 

 vetchling (see Lathyrus) 

 Milfoil (see Achillea) 

 Mineral manures, 7, 9, 15, 39, 41, 43, 53, 59, 91, 98, 111, 149, 153, 



159, 161, 164, 167, 170, 175, 178, 187, 207, 211, 223 

 Minerals of the soil, fate of the, 202 

 Miscellaneous herbage, 135, 138, 145, 146, 151, 155, 160, 163, 169, 



170, 177, 191, 192, 204, 219, 220, 222 

 Monocotyledons, 220 

 Morphological characters of plants, 224 

 Mosses, 220 



Mouse-ear chickweed (see Cerastiuin) 

 " Mulching," effect of straw, 164 



NITRATES, 38, 60, 201 

 Nitrate of potash, 181 



soda, 45, 51, 98, 99, 101, 146, 167, 169, 170, 181, 200, 224 

 Nitrites, 201 



Nitrification, 38, 40, 51, 59 

 Nitrogen, evolution of free, 201, 203 



in ammonia-salts, 205 



in bean crop, 189 



in clover crop, 189 



in different forms of combination, 51, 60, 110, 121, 147, 

 168, 181, 183, 200, 204, 223, 224 



in farmyard manure, 193, 200, 204 



in hay crop, 142, 165, 187, 191, 192 



in wheat and barley crops, 89, 142, 189, 197 



