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Contents. 
Details of its Husbandry — Mr. Lane's System of Extra Cropping on Loam 
goil — Beans and Turnips — Peas and Cabbage — The Eastern Counties — 
Essex — Rotations — Mr. Mechi's Wheat after Wheat — Suffolk — Stetches — 
Rotations — Norfolk — Rotations — The Earl of Leicester's Improvements — 
The Four-course Shift improved — Autumn Tilling and Forking — Lincoln- 
shire— Soils— Heath and Cliff— The Wolds— The Middle-Marsh— Rotations 
on the Clays — The Warp-lands — Isle of Axholme small Farms — Yorkshire 
— East Riding — Soils — The Wolds — Vale of York — Holderness— North 
Riding — Rotations — West Riding — Semi-garden Rotations — Licorice-=- 
Special Crops on the Warp — Cheshire — -Potato Culture— Lancashire — Selling 
Straw and Hay — Seeds — Bought Stable Dung — Liverpool Manure — Inten- 
sive Culture on small Farms — Free Sale of Produce .. Pages' 316-354 
CHAPTER Nlll.— Manures. 
Artificial Manures — Major Dashwood's Practice — Mr. Treadwell's Practice — 
Mrs. Millington's Practice — Mr. Forester's Practice — Staffordshire Examples 
— Mr. May's Practice — Mr. Reeling's Practice — Mr.|Clay's Practice — Mr. M. 
Walker's Practice — Mr. G. Gibbon's Practice — Mr. Hosegood's Practice — 
Mr. Charles Howard's and Mr. Checkley's Practice — An Example io 
Norfolk — Artificials in Lincolnshire^ — Artificials in Cambridgeshire and 
Suffolk — Superphosphate^ — -Guanos and Nitrate— Quantities apjilied — 
Manures of limited Application — Fish — Seaweed — Composts — Durable 
Applications — Boning — Rape-cake — Marling — Chalking — Claying — Liming 
- — Farming without Manure — Liquid-Manure Irrigation — Mr. Mechi's Prac- 
tice — Other Examples — Farmyard-Manure- — Open and Covered Yards — 
Greater Value of Covered-yard Manure — Saving in Straw — Dung-heaps — 
Dung-pits Pages'354-562 
CHAPTER IX. 
Motive Power — Implements and Machines — Steam Cultivation. 
Ox-Teams — Farm-Horses — Number kept on different Soils — Management — 
Breeding — Colts — Breaking — Feeding — Cost of |Horse-Power — Mules and 
Asses — Water Power — Wind Power^ — Steam Power — Amount of Steam 
Power used in Agriculture — Fixed and Portable Engines — Noted Home- 
steads — Messrs. Tuxford's Machinery on Lord Bateman's Farm — Messrs. 
Clayton and Shuttleworth's Machinery — Covered Stackyard — Messrs. Ran- 
somes, Sims, and Head's Machinery — Simple Arrangement for Food- 
preparing Machinery — Steam Ploughs and Cultivators — The Fisken System 
— Wire-Rope System — Messrs. Barford and Perkins' Machinery — Messrs. 
John Fowler and Co.'s Machinery — Messrs. Howard's Machinery — The' 
Double-Engine System — Horses Displaced — Messrs. Howard's Farms on 
Boulder Clay — Mr. Ruck's Practice on Calcareous Clay — Improvement of 
Poor Clay Pasture — Messrs. Fowler's Knifing — Mr. Smith of Woolston's 
Clay-land Husbandry — Non-inversion of the Soil — Autumn Kidging for 
Mangolds — Labour-saving Implements of late introduction Pages 362-375 
