504 



INDEX. 



Silver fir, balm of Gilead, 431. 



Silver fir, Californian, 432. 



Silver fir, Cephalonian, 432. 



Silver fir, common, 433. 



Silver fir, noble, 432. 



Silver fir, Nordman's, 432. 



Silver fir, Pinsapo, 433. 



Silver fir, pitch, 433. 



Silver fir, tooth-leaved, 433. 



Single-engine steam-cultivating apparatus, 



expense per day of, 59. 

 Slates for buildings, 251. 

 Soils, calcareous, 322. 

 Soils, clay, 322. 

 Soils, granite, 324. 



Soils, judging of, in valuing land, 321. 

 Soils, loamy, 323. 

 Soils, market value, to find, 325. 

 Soils, means to increase fertility of, 87. 

 Soils, peat, 324. 

 Soils, sandy, 323. 

 Soot, 119. 



Spanish chestnut, the, 351, 379. 

 Spruce, Albert's, 429. 

 Spruce, white American, 429. 

 Spruce, black, 431. 

 Spruce fir, Douglas's, 430. 

 Spruce, hemlock, 430. 

 Spruce, Himalayan, 430. 

 Spruce, Hooker's, 430. 

 Spruce, Menzies's, 430. 

 Spruce, Norway, 430. 

 Spruce, Oriental, 431. 

 Stable, arrangement of, 274. 

 Stackyard, arrangement of, 279. 

 Steam, application for agricultural purposes, 



48. 



Steam-cultivating apparatus, Fowler's, 52. 

 Steam-cultivating apparatus, Fowler's, cost 



of, 55. 

 Steam - cultivating apparatus, Howard's, 



55. 

 Steam - cultivating apparatus, Smith's, of 



Woolston, 58. 

 Steam-machines, suggested improvements 



in, 51. 



Steam-power, reclamation of land by, 234. 

 Steelbow, 79. 

 Stephens, Mr H., course of training pursued 



by him in acquiring a knowledge of 



farming, 26. 



Stephens, Mr H., on rotations, 78. 

 Stone-breaking machines, 207. 

 Stone bridges, 205. 

 Stone walls as fences, 147. 

 Straining-pillar for wire fences, 154. 

 Subsoils, 325. 

 Sunk fences, 174. 

 Sycamore, the, 350, 379. 



Tenant-farmers, capital required by, 32. 



Tenant-farmers, 19. 



Tenant-farmers, qualifications of, as affect- 

 ing the prosperity of an estate, 20. 



Tenant - farmers, training and education 

 necessary for, 23. 



Tenant - farmers, qualifications of, to be 



taken into account in letting farms, 29. 

 Thinning plantations, 382. 

 Thorn, the, 351. 



Thorn acacia, or locust-tree, 380. 

 Thorn, black, 381. 

 Thorn, common, 382. 

 Thorn hedges, 159. 

 Tiles for roofing, 253. 

 Timber for buildings, 255. 

 Timber, disposing of, 395. 

 Timber, manufacture of, 421. 

 Timber, preservation of, 426. 

 Traction-engine, description of Thomson's, 



143. 

 Traction-engines versus horses on farms, 



299. 



Traction-enf*ines in Aberdeenshire, 301. 

 Tramways, Mr Page's, 303. 

 Tramways for estates, 141. 

 Tramways for farms, 141. 

 Transplanting forest-trees, 410. 

 Trees, barking of, 448. 

 Trees, kinds of, adapted to different soils 



and situations, 349. 

 Trees to select from public nurserymen, 



365. 



Trees, protection of young, 423. 

 Trees, number required to plant per acre, 



366. 

 Trenching as a means of improving land, 



96. 

 Trenching, reclamation of waste lands by, 



231. 



Tulip-tree, 382. 

 Turf fences, 165. 

 Turnstiles, 172. 

 Tweeddale subsoil-plough, 233. ' 



Underwood, management and sale of, 407. 



Valuation of lauded estates, 316. 

 Valuation of land taken by a railway 



company, 327. 

 Valuation of quarries, 330. 

 Valuation of outgoing tenant's crops, 80. 

 Valuation of shootings and fishings, 331. 

 Valuation of woods and plantations, 328. 

 Ventilators, 271. 



Walks, formation of, 203. 



Walls of farm-buildings, 262. 



Walnut-tree, the, 351, 379. 



Wass estate, rales for labourers on, 291. 



Wass, formation of plantations on estate of, 



352, 353. 

 Wass, plan of nursery on the estate of 



360. 

 Wass Mental Improvement Society rules, 



290. 



Wass Moor Enclosure, 374. 

 Waste lands, extent, uses, and capabilities 



of, 224. 

 Waste lands, improvement by plantations, 



228. 

 Waste lands, improvement of, 224. 



