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INDEX. 



Farm - buildings, construction of, 2C1 

 foundation, ib. walls, 262 roofs, 264 

 spouting, 267 windows, tb. ventila- 

 tors, 271 doors, 272 floors, 273 

 stables, 274 cowhouse, 276 pigsty, 

 278 stackyard, 279 steading, general 

 arrangement of, ib. cost of, 282 cot- 

 tages, 283. 



Farm dwelling-houses, 240. 



Farm leases, 60. 



Farm leases, rotation clauses in, 62, 73. 



Farm leases, advantage of, 64. 



Farm leases, form of, in Scotland, 65. 



Farm-roads, 196. 



Farm-steadings, 242. 



Farm-steading, cost of erecting, 282. 



Farm-steading, general arrangement of, 279. 



Farm-tramways, 141. 



Farms, home, 40. 



Farms, entries to, 78, 86. 



Farms, the different kinds of, 37. 



Farms, present rents of, 128. 



Farms, size of, 34. 



Farms, traction-engines verms horses on, 

 299. 



Farming, profits from, 39. 



Fencing, 146. 



Fences, stone walls as, 147. 



Fences, sunk, 174. 



Fences, thorn hedges as, 159. 



Fences, turf, 165. 



Fences made from underwood, 167. 



Fences, wire, 150. 



Fences, wire, straining-pillar for, 154. 



Fences, wooden, 156. 



Fentonbarns, cultivation by Howard's 

 steam-cultivating apparatus on the farm 

 of, 57. 



Flood-gates, 221. 



Floors, 273. 



Force-pumps, 314. 



Forester, qualifications necessary in a, 

 348. 



Forests in relation to moisture, Dr Brown's 

 remarks, 341. 



Forest-trees, pruning of, 390. 



Forest-trees, transplanting of, 410. 



Form of English agreements for yearly 

 tenancy, 81. 



Form of English agreements for yearly 

 tenancy, remarks on, 84. 



Foundations, 261. 



Game, 72. 



Game department on an estate, 304. 

 Game, maintenance of a stock of, 451. 

 Gas for estate purposes, 452. 

 Gate-catches, 170. 

 Gates, 167. 



Gean, the, or wild cherry, 381. 

 Glass used in buildings, 259. 

 Granite as a building material, 248. 

 Granite soils, 324 

 Grant's portable farm-railway, 137. 

 Ground game, protection of young trees 

 from, 423. 



Guano, 119. 



Guano, quantity applied, 124. 



Hazel, common, 381. 



Hedges, forms of, 162. 



Hedges, general management of, 164. 



Hedges, planting of young, 161. 



Hedges, old, 163. 



Hill-pastures, draining of, 185. 



Holly, the, 351, 382. 



Home-farms, 40. 



Home-farms, reporting on, 335. 



Hornbeam, the, 351, 381. 



Horse-chestnut, the, 350, 379. 



Horse-power on farms, expense of, 299. 



Horse-power, reclamation of land by, 233. 



Howard's double-action steam cultivator, 

 495. 



Howard's new ploughing and traction en- 

 gine, 494. 



Howard's plough for dressing land, 234. 



Hydraulic ram, 312. 



Hypothec Amendment Act, 135. 



Insurances, 81. 

 Iron bridges, 206. 

 Iron gates, 171. 



Johnston's, Professor, directions for dissolv- 

 ing bones, 113. 



Labourers, 287. 



Labourers' cottages, 244. 



Labourers, rules for, 291. 



Laburnum, 381. 



Land agency, 12. 



Land agents, training necessary fpr, 15. 



Land, improvement of, 87. 



Land improvement companies, 227. 



Land, probable cost of improving, 103. 



Land, recommendations for the improve- 

 ment of, 99. 



Land, tillage of, 87. 



Land, value of, 128. 



Landed estates, reporting on, 334. 



Landed estates, judging of soils in valuing, 

 321. 



Landed estates, value affected by climate, 

 319. 



Landed estates, valuation by rental, &c., 

 316. 



Landed property commercially considered, 



Landed property, continued increase in 



value, 130. 

 Landed property, increased value of, from 



improvements, 3. 

 Landed property, circumstances affecting 



value of, 4. 

 Landed proprietors, training necessary for, 



7. 



Larch, the, 257, 352. 

 Larch, European, 440. 

 Leases, shooting, 310. 

 Lime, 126 

 Limestone as building material, 250. 



