VOLUMES ONE TO EIGHT. 



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Little, E., on the agiicultuve of Wilts, v. 

 161. 



Liverpool, exhibition of implements at, 

 . ii. 103, App. 



Live-stock in Scotland, history of, i. 75, 



81, 86, 97. 

 Loomes, E., on one-horse carts, vi. 398. 

 Long, W., on burning clay for manure, 



vii. 245. 



Long-w^ooled breeds of sheep, viii. 11. 

 Love, P., on one-horse carts, vii. 223. 

 Loughborough Agricultural Association, 



on tenant-right, vi. 46. 

 Lovelace, Earl of, on the culture of beans 



and cabbages, v. 112. 

 man- 



gold-vvurzel, iv. 21. 

 Lucerne, culture of, iii. 238 ; v. 103. 



M. 



M'Adam, J., on flax-culture, viii. 361. 

 Macaire's experiments on the secretions of 



plants, i. 287. 

 Machines, see Implements. 

 Machinery, advantages of, to agriculture, 



i. 16. 



■ of threshing, i. 15. 



Mackenzie, Sir F. A., on manures, i. 418. 

 Main, J., on cottage- gardening, ii. 322. ^ 



on plants injurious to clover, i. 



173. 



Maidstone Farmers' Club on thin seed- 

 ing, the, V. 597. 



Maggots in peas, vii. 420. 



Male animals, selection of, in breeding, i. 

 22. 



Mangold-wurzel, ii. 298; iii. 201 ; iv. 21, 

 274; v. 21, 322, 528; viii. 209, 272. ^ 



■ — i action of guano on, vi. 



528. 



ashes of, viii. 157, 185. 



composition of, ii. 298 ; 



^iv. 141. 



— consumption of, viii. 



222. 



cost of harvesting, vii. 



128. 



fattening properties of, 



ii. 296. 



fly, the, viii. 411. 



. for cows, viii. 223. 



insect enemies of, viii. 



399. 



■ produce of, iv. 23 ; v. 



20 ; vi. 530 ; viii. 157, &c. 



Manures, see ammonia, animal, arti- 

 ficial, bones, bones and acid, burnt 

 clay, cake, chalk, charcoal, crag, 

 Daniell's, dung-water, fish, guano, gas- 

 lime, gas-water, gypsum, hop-bines, 

 kelp-ashes, lime, liquid, marl, mineral, 

 mould, night-soil, nitrates, peat, phos- 



phorite, Poittevin's, rags, rape-dust, 

 salt, sawdust, shale, soot, waste. 



Manures, action of, iv. 535. 



. as substitutes for bones, iii. 1G4. 



. compounds of mineral, ii. 418. 



cost of turning and filling, vii. 



135. 



— drilling, iv. 186. 



effects of difl'erent, on turnips, 



ii. 264 ; iii. 423; vii. 297; viii. 503, 



510. 



. experiments with, i. 418; ii, 



264 ; iv. 281 ; v. 623 ; vi. 330, 333, 5.:8 ; 



vii. 297; viii. 57, 503, 510. 



. for carrots, iv. 270. 



for hops, vii. 222. 



. for trees, v. 608. 



for turnips, ii. 267 ; iv. 64, 211 ; 



viii. 205. 



. for wheat, vii. 677. 



influenced by age of animals, i. 



457. 



inorganic, viii. 245. 



loss of ammonia in, iv. 539. 



management of, i. 9, 70, 84, 



96; iii. 208; viii. 303. 



nitrogen in, viii. 245. 



— — on the potato disease, the in- 

 fluence of, vii. 491. 



quality of, i. 457. 



sewage, i. 158 ; v. 610. 



superiority of summer to winter 



made, i. 139. 



____ of yard to fold, i. 



162. 



tanks for liquid, i. 155, 499 ; 



viii. 581. 



theory of, i. 455 ; ii. 232 ; viii. 



240. 



the stimulating action of, iii. 



149. 



town, ii. 56 ; v. 610. 



used in a rotation, iii. 245. 



Manuring, theory of, by folding, i. 232, 

 485. 



Maps. See Illustrations at end of Index. 



model, iv. 496. 



Mare, desirable points in the, v. 512. 



detection of pregnancy in the, i. 



170. 



Marl as a manure, i. 126 ; vi. 439. 

 — — composition of, vi. 439, 575. 



of Norfolk, vii. 452. 



Marling land, on, v. 309; viii. 312. 



cost of, ii. 69 ; viii. 312. 



sandv soils, on, ii. 69 ; iii. 3, 



181, 216,233, 427. 

 Marquis of Tweeddale"s tile-machine, ii. 



148. 



Marshall, J., on feeding cattle, vii. 391. 

 on substitutes for bone-ma- 

 nure, iii. 164. 

 Marsh-land, draining of, vii. 115. 



