806 = 540 Contents. 
and Air— Soluble Manuring constituents of dilute Sewage not concentrated 
in the Land by IiTigation — Proved by Analysis — Failure to purify by 
Chemical Agents— Means of purifying Sewage— Clay Soils unfit for Irri- 
gation — Cl-ude Sulphate of Alumina best precipitating agent — Disposal of 
Town Sewage Pages 556-568 
CHAPTER IV. — Improvement of Permanent Pastures. 
Recent attention to the subject — Experiments at Eothamsted— Effects on the 
Herbage — Eesults of the Experiments — Farmyai-d Dung best 
Pages 568^0 
CHAPTER Y.— Feeding and Bearing of Stock. 
Early Maturity — Value of Chemistry — Linseed-cake — Earth-nut-cake — 
Cotton-cake — Cocoanut-cake — Locust-beans — Rice ]\Ieal — Durra Grain — 
Cereals — Rearing and Fattening Stock — Experiments — Proportion of Nitro- 
gen in the Food recovered in Manure — Estimated Manure-value of Foods 
— Money-value — Mv. Lawes's Table — Probable losses in Practice 
Pages 570-577 
CHAPTER VI. — Industries Attaclied to tie Farm. 
English Farmers strictly Agricultural — Beet-root Sugar — Distillation of Spirits 
— Influence of Manure — Climate favourable to growth of Beet-root — Selling 
Beet-roots unprofitable to English Farmers — Cheese Factories — Cheddar 
Plan — Aylesbury Dairy Company — Condensed Milk Manufacture 
Pages 577-580 
CHAPTER Yll.— Experimental Stations. 
English Experimental Stations — Scotch — Mr. Lawes's^ Exijerimental Station 
— Experiments on Vegetation — Rainfall — Drain-gauges — Experiments on 
Animals — Application of Town Sewage — Woburn Experiments — Particulars 
of Experimental Lands— Plan of the Field Experiments — Subdivision of 
Plots — Rotation Experiments — Feeding-experiments — Rotation adopted 
Pages 581-588 
