Index 



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Machinery — continu-.ri. Page 



Labour-saving implements ... ... ... ... ...478,484 



Milking macliines ... ... ... ... ... ... 541 



Petrol and paraffin ... ... ... ... ... ... 347 



Ploughs : 



Fowler sell -lift stetch plough ... ... ... ... 1002 



Ploughing scheme of the Ministry ... ... ... 840,1025 



Tractor-drawn ploughs ... ... ... ... ... 486, 689 



Steam thresliing, cost ... ... ... ... ... 621 



Threshing committee, appointment ... ... ... 659,1261 



„ organisation by agricultural executive committees ... 660 



tractorsfor ... ... ... ... ... 689 



Tractors : 



Disposal of Food Production Department tractors ... ... 209 



Implements used with tractors ... ... ... ... 488 



Lincoln tractor trials ... ... ... 122,579,673,686.1174 



Road haulage by ... ... ... ... ... 689 



Threshing by ... ... ... ... ... ... 689 



Tractor ploughs ... ... ... ... ... ...486,689 



,, scheme of Ministry, liquidation ... ... ... 1155 



Trials in 1920 ... ... ... ... ... 1175 



Tyipes ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 686 



Women's Land Army, work with tractors ... ... ... 941 



War agricultural committees' machinery, disposal ... ... 93 



Magnesian lime, see Manures. 



Maize, growth as a soiling crop ... ... ... ... ... 514 



supplies ... ... ... ... ... 640 



Malt supplies for home brewing ... ... ... ... ... 661 



Mangolds : 



Cultivation experiments at Cockle Park ... ... ... 1220 



Fertilisers for ... ... ... ... ... ... 86, 715 



Manurial experiments with ... ... ... ... ... 234 



Trials in Worcestershire, 1915-1918 ... ... ... ... 182 



Manures (see also "Notes on Manures," published periodically in this 

 Journal, and not separately indexed as such) : 

 Ammonium nitrate ... ... ... ... 179,503,714, 918 



Apethorpe Estate, report on manurial trials, 1917-18 ... ... 441 



Basic slag : 



Comparative values of different grades ... ... ... 829 



Grass manuring ... ... ... ... ... ...611,1188 



Prices, 1919-20 337, 1261 



Work at Rothamsted during the war ... ... ... ■ 504 



Blast-furnace dust ... ... ... ... ... ... 387 



Bracken ... ... ... ... ... 916 



Calcium cyanamide ... ... ... ... ... 503 



,, nitrate ... ... ... ... ... ... 179 



Chopped straw ... ... ... ... ... ... 1110 



CUmate, effect of fertihsers in overcoming bad effects ... ... 1110 



Complete artificial manures ... ... ... ... ... 608 



Compound manures ... ... ... ... ... ... 1189 



Control ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1026 



Farmyard manure, influence on clover crop ... ... ... 124 



making of without animals ... ... ... 21,501 



preservation ... ... ... ... 1015 



storage to prevent loss ... ... ... 500 



respective values of winter and spring dressings 914 



Gas lime ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1110 



Germany and Sweden, effect of the war on position of ... ... 1250 



Grass production, manuring for ... ... ... ... 607 



Guano ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 244 



Lime ... ... ... 182, 502, 613. 717. 828, 918. 1011. 1109, UStl 



Liquid manure ... ... ... 87, 182, 204, 362, 428. 431 



Magnesian lime ... ... ... ... ... ... 180 



Mixed manures ... ... ... ... ... 831.1012,1187 



Nitrate of soda ... ... ... ... ... 2^4,829,1011 



Nitrogen, use in grass manuring ... ... ... 608, 611, 616 



loss through winter rains ... ... ... ... 917 



products committee report ... ... ... ... 1112 



Organic manures ... ... ... ... ... ...225,228 



