Index. 



259 



Seeds, weight per bushel of, 148, 151 

 Seedsman is cheapest manure mer- 

 chant, 246 

 Seedsmen, Ignorance of, 37, 158 



rival, 93 



unqualified, 37, 244 



Sharsted Court, visit to, 73 



Sheep, death from swallowing grit, 53 



death rate of, 51, 180 



effect of turnips on, 51 



experiments a,t Cockle Park, 122 



grazing, when harmful, 18 



stock kept at Clifton-on-Bow- 



mont farm, 215-217 

 Shelters, 138, 139, 211-214 



in Kent, 213 



Shereburgh field, cropping of, 221 

 — ^ seed mixture for gravelly bank 



in, 173 

 Sinclair, George, career of, 79 



" Hortus Gramineus Woburn- 



ensis," 79 



on proportion of JByegrass in 



mixtures, 79 



on blank spaces in fields, 180 



on effect of grazing seedling 



grasses, 67 

 prescription for permanent pas- 

 ture, 81 



— '■ for temporary pasture, 97 



for alternate husbandry, 81, 



97 

 Sinclair, Sir John, 41-43 



Skill required in laying dowri land to 



grass, 2 

 Small holdings, 129, 130, 134, 138, 



139 

 Smooth-stalked Meadow grass, 104 



relative productiveness of, 154 



iSoU, chemical composition of, 22 



I consolidation of, causes moss, 74 



dark warmer than Ught, 129 



disintegration of, 26-28 



exhaustion of, 118 



^— of Kent, physical condition of, 4 

 physical condition of, 3, 7, 22, 



24-29, 69, 89, 137, 173, 184 

 Sir John Lawes on, 7, 



22 



Soil, poverty of, 26 



improvement of, by roots, 27, 28 



" Soil," Hall's book, 4 



" SoUs," Fletcher's ^ook, 109, 129, 



176 

 Solicitor-General for Scotland's letter 



re Rent Court, 144 

 Sowing out, see Laying down 

 Stackyard field, seed mixture used, 241 

 Standard of quality of seed, 151 

 Stock, most suitable, 132 

 " Stones, out of these, bread," 85 

 Stubble should be left long for shelter 



of young grass plants, 65 

 Subsoiling by deep-rooters, 84 

 Successful takes of grass, 27 

 Sweet- Vernal grass, 104, 105 



relative productiveness of, 154 



Sweet Water Meadow grass, 58 



Tall Fescue, importance of obtaining 



Rhenish seed, 96, 97 



notes on, 96, 97 



relative produotiveness of, 



98, 154 



resists drought, 96 



Tall Oat-Uke grass, Elliot's opinion 



of, 98 



notes on, 97 



-relative productiveness 



of, 98, 154 



" Sinclair's opinion of, 97 



Young's opinion of, 97, 98 



bulbous -rooted variety, 98 



Tan Reed-Fescue, 97 



Temporary pastures, Clifton Park 



mixtures for, 82, 83 



of Lord Leicester, 20 



Tenant's liability to be evicted, 130 

 Teviotdale Farmers' Club, 110 

 Thistles, aeration of soils by, 70 



effect in suppressing moss, 70 



Tillage by roots, 7 



Timothy, deficient in aftermath, 100 



notes on, 99, 100 



relative produotiveness of, 98, 



99, 154 



Sinclair's opinion of, 100 



■^— succeeds in peaty soils, 100 



