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Index. 



Lolimn perenne, see Eyegrasa, peren- 

 nial 



italicum, see Italian Ryegrass. 



Longshot field, 172 



hay crop, 83 



seed mixture used, 83 



Lotus comiculatus, see Birdsfoot 



TrefoU 

 IiotuB major, 109 

 Lucerne, penetration of roots of, 84 



Sir John Lawes on, 109 



suited to Clifton Park system on 



chalk soUs, 160 



Manure biU, reduction of, xxi., 123 

 Manures, artificial, see Artificial 



manures 

 for turnips at Clifton-on-Bow- 



mont, 184 



Martin, Sir Mordaimt, on Ryegrass, 



80 

 Meadow Fescue, notes on, 101 



relative productiveness of, 98, 154 



Meadow Foxtail, experiment with at 



Carbeth, 102 



notes on, 101 



relative productiveness of, 98, 154 



Medicago sativa, see Lucerne 

 Middleton, Professor, note on Abbots- 

 ley experiments by, 170 

 MUl, John Stuart, 140 

 Milton, quotations from, i. , v. 

 Mixture for gravelly banks, 178 

 Moisture obtained or conserved by 



fine tUth, 176 



by humus, 183 



Moss, abolished by deep-rooting 



plants, 177 

 appearance of in vacant places, 



69 



cause of, 74 



decreased by change of stock, 70 



by chicory and burnet, 35 



by fogging, 72 



by letting up grass, 70, 74, 



75, 174, 177 



Murray, Mr. W. R., letter from, 222- 

 224 



Mossed-up pasture, letting up of, 

 177 



Nationalisation of land, 140-144 



retards private enterprise, 



141 



Nature properly assisted, effects of, 23 



Nerved meadow grass, 105, 106 



Nitrogen, atmospheric, 84, 132, 136, 



137, 164, 184 

 from nodules on the roots of 



leguffliaous plants, 84 



Normandy farmers, 36, 37 



Northumberland Oounty Demonstra- 

 tion Farm, 117-123 



Nutritive value of Cocksfoot grass, 96 



Hard Fescue grass, 104 



Italian Ryegrass, 100 



— Meadow Fescue grass, 101 



Meadow Foxtail grass, 102 



Perennial Ryegrass, 96, 100 



Tall Fescue grass, 96 



TaE oat-like grass, 97 



Timothy grass, 100 



Wood Meadow grass, 105 



Onobrychis sativa, see Sainfoin 



Outer-Kaimrig field, cropping of, 33, 

 221 



elevation of, 161 



experiment, 160, 161 



freedom from moss, 177 



grazing of, 86 



most exposed, 161 



most outlying field on farm, 



161 



original state of, 29 



reduced seeding, 186, 187 



result of light seeding on part 



of, 186 



seed mixture used, 30, 160 



state of turf at first ploughing, 33 



stock carried, 86, 161 



Overstocking, 67 



Pan, composition of hard, 84 



pierced by chicory and burnet 



roots, 83, 172 

 Paper read at Cambridge, 238-246 



Kelso, 227-237 



Paris, Dr., Memoh- of Arthur Young, 



3, 40, 41, 56 



