VOLUMES ONE TO EIGHT. 



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Bones and acid as a manure to apply, v. [ 

 466. I 



. . — to prepare, vii. 



150. 



as a manure, i. 10, 96, 111, 418; 



iv. 87 ; vi. 49. 



■ for turnips, iii. 423. 



new mode of pre- 

 paring, viii. 417. 



permanence of, vi. 443. 



substitutes for, iii. 164. 



cost of, ii. 92; vi. 68. 



fermented, vi. 325 ; viii. 419. 



for grass lands, ii. 91 ; v. 89, 94. 



Book-keeping, scientific, iii. 145. 



Botrytis infestans, vii. 313, 363. 



Bowly, Ed., on one-horse carts, vi. 156. 



Box-feeding, v. 319 ; viii. 473. 



Boys, H., on the Kentish corn-scythe, i. 

 444. 



Bramston, J. W., M.P., on narrow and 



wide drilling of wheat, i. 294. 

 Bra vender, J., on breaking up grass-lands, 



vii. 161. 



— on indications of fertility, 



V. 559. 



Braybrooke, Lord, on an oil-cake, iii. 439. 



Bread, composition of, ii. 144. 



Breaking grass-land, ii. 182; iv. 80, 88; 



vii. 161, 500. 

 Breaking-in young horses, on, v. 529. 

 Breeding, characters of male, i. 22, 332. 



■ crosses, i. 25. 



detection of pregnancy, i. 170 ; 



ii. 113. 



ewes, i. 336. 



faults corrected by, i. 25. 



feeding propensity hereditary, 



i. 23. 



flock, management of, viii. 3. 



gestation of the cow, i. 165. 



horses, on, v. 508. 



in-and-in, i. 331. 



relative size of male and female 



compared, i. 25. 



ot cattle and sheep, i. 17. 



Breeds of cattle, see Ayrshire, Argyle, 



Hereford, Kerry, Shorthorns. 

 sheep, vi. 361; and see Cheviot, 



Cotswold, Devon, Leicester. 

 Bricks, cost and manufacture of, i. 353. 

 Bristol, exhibition of implements at, iii. 



338. 



Brown, H. H., on land-drainage, iii. 165. 

 Buckland, G., on the agriculture of Kent, 

 vi. 251. 



Buckley, J., on a disease in ewes, ii. 116. 

 Bugs, corn, vi. 509. 



Buildings, farm, ii. 190 ; iv. 1 ; v. 100 ; 



vi. 276. 

 Bull, to tame a, iv. 559. 

 Bun bury. Sir H. E., on the allotment 



system, v. 391. 



Bunt, ii. 4. 



Burgess, J., on nitrate of soda as a ma- 

 nure, ii. 131. 



Burke, F,, on cottage economy, iii. 83. 



on land-draining, ii. 273. 



on the Crown estates in Kerry, 



i. 435 ; iv. 435. 



, J. on horses, v. 508. 



Burness, C, on marling light soils, iii. 

 233. 



Burning clay as a manure, iii. 323; iv. 



267; V. 12, 113; vii. 142, 245,297 ; 



viii. 46, 77, 317. 



peat-ashes, vii. 136. 



peat-charcoal, cost of, vii. 546. 



stifle, V. 173. 



Burnt clay as a mainjre for wheat, vi. 477. 



cost of, V. 1 17 ; vii. 299 ; viii. 



56, 317. 



Burrell, Sir C, on tlie productiveness of 



different wheats, ii. 147. 



on the white carrot, v. 281. 



Burroughes, T. C, on white mustard, vii. 



31. 



Butter, manufacture of, iii. 229. 



in Holsteiu, i. 376, 



386. 



Butterflies attacking cabbages and turnips, 

 iii. 306. 



C. 



Cabbage and beans, cultivation of, v. 112. 

 turnips, relative value of, as 



food, vi. 368. 



. as food for lambs, viii. 29. 



. cultivation of, v. 25, 340 ; viii. 



276. 



growth of, i. 391. 



insects attacking, iii. 306. 



Cake-crusher, ii. 16, App. ; v. 382 ; vi. 



321 ; viii. 358. 



manure, v. 313. 



Calendar of cottage gardening, ii. 341. 

 Calves, produce of, ii. 112. 

 Cambridge, agriculture of, vii. 35. 

 _ exhibition of Implements at, 



ii. 13, App. 

 Cambridge, W., on reducing the number 



of hedges, vi. 333. 

 Campbell, T., on steeping seeds, iv. 557. 

 Canary seed, culture of, v. 38. 

 Capital, farm, viii. 36. 

 Caraway, culture of, v. 37. 

 Carr, J. S., on destroying vermin, lii. 42S. 

 . on rural economv abroad, i. 



124. 



_ . on rural economy in Ger- 

 many, 1. 371. 



on sheep-pox, viii. 489. 



Carriages, v. 380. 



Carrots and turnips, relative value of, vi. 

 369. 



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