INDEX 



TO 



THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL 



VOLUMES ONE TO EIGHT. 



A. 



Abortion of wheat, ii. 25. 

 Absorbent powers of various substances, 

 V. 126. 



Absorption of moisture by soils, i. 48, 

 195. 



of oxygen by soils, i. 197. 



Acacia, the, iii. 272. 



Acid and bones, see Bones and Acid. 



Acland, Sir T. D., on nitrate of soda as a 



manure, iv. 276. 

 Acreable produce of food in different 



crops, V. 264v. 



value of different crops, iv. 148. 



Adams, W., on an improved dibbling- 



wheel, iii. 163. 

 Adhesiveness of soils, i. 188. 

 Adjectives applied to soils, meaning of, i. 



192. 



Agricultural (see) Education, Institutions 

 on the Continent, Implements, Me- 

 chanics, Societies, Statistics. 



Agriculture and Geology, i. 3, 271 (198, 

 App.) J iii. 21 ; v. 580 ; vii. 444. 



application of science to, iii. 



136. 



Board of, i. 89. 



Chemistry of, viii. 226, 494. 



Government patronage of, iv. 



201. 



importance of, i. 1. 



of (see) Cambridgeshire, 



Cheshire, Cornwall, Denmark, Eng- 

 land, Essex, Flanders, France, Ger- 

 many, Ireland, Kent, Lincolnshire, Ne- 

 therlands, Norfolk, Northumberland, 

 North Wales, Nottinghamshire, Rox- 

 burghshire, Scotland, Spain, Suffolk, 

 Sweden, Wilts. 



progress of, in England, ii. 



239 ; iii. 169. 



risks of, i. 15. 



theory of, iii. 213. 



*< Ahl," see Dung-water. 



Albumen, composition of, iv. 216. 

 Alder, for fence wood, the, vi. 225. 

 Alderney and Kerry breeds compared, the, 



ii. 420. 



cow, the, V. 43. 



Allix, C, on the preservation of Swedish 



turnips, vii. 275. 

 Allotment system, the, v. 96, 391 ; vi. 



38, 301 ; vii. 20. 

 Alluvial district of Norfolk, vii. 472. 



soils, i. 373. 



Almack, B., on drill husbandry of turnips, 



iv. 49. 



on tenant-right, vii. 234. 



on the agriculture of Norfolk, 



V. 307. 



Amherst, Lord, on Hall Farm, viii. 33. 

 Ammonia in manures, loss of, iv. 539. 



in rain-water, ii. 255. 



sulphate of, as a manure, v. 



601. 



Analysis, cost of, ii. 36, 



. mode of chemical, viii. 207. 



of ashes of plants, report on, vii. 



593 ; viii. 134. 



of green plants, viii. 536. 



of guano, V. 287. 



of soils, i. 46, 274 ; iv. 547 ; v. 



614. /See also Composition of Soils. 



Anatomical structure of animals, indi- 

 cating their feeding propensities, iv. 

 256. 



Anbury, i. 13 ; iv. 121. 

 Anglesey, soils of, vii. 564. 



rents in, vii. 584. 



Animal manures, i. 455. 

 Animalcules in wheat, ii. 20. 

 Annatto, i. 385; vi. 122. 

 Antiquity of drainage, v. 8 ; vii. 252 ; 

 viii. 308. 



Aphides, natural history of, iii. 49 ; vi. 



503; vii. 416. 

 Apoplexy in sheep, i. 299. 

 Apples, blight in, iv. 267. 



different kinds of, iv. 386 ; vi. 278. 



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