double mould-boarded, 2619; the binot, 2620; the
marking, 2621; Clymer's, 2622; Stothard's, 2623;
Morton's trenching, 2624; Gladstone's water-fur-
rowing, 2625; the improved Scotch, with one or
two wheels, 2629; the Beverston, 2630; the Nor-
folk wheel, 2632; Wilkie's single-horse wheel,
2634; Wilkie's improved friction-wheel, 2637;
the paring wheel, 2638; Clarke's draining, 2639;
Merton's draining, 2641; the gutter, 2642; the
mole, 2643; the Duke of Bridgewater's draining,
2646; the pressing, 2648; Wilkie's wheel, with a
shifting muzzle, 7843; wheel and swing, 2587;
construction of, 2588; materials of, 2597; turn-
wrest swing, 2609; the Scotch swing, 2598; the
Scotch, 2600; Small's, 2601; the Northumber.
land and Berwickshire, 2602; Wilkie's swing,
2603; Finlayson's iron, 2604; the heath, or self.
cleaning, 2605; Finlayson's Kentish skeleton
self-cleaning, 2606; Finlayson's line, 2007; the
Somerville swing, 2608; Gray's turn-wrest swing,
2610.

Ploughboy, Anon. page 1223. A. D. 1826.
Ploughing, 3239; shallow, 3247; steep lands, 3254;
relative to time, 3257; relative to season, 3258.
Ploughing in wheat, 5031.

Ploughman, choice of, 4868; plan of maintaining in
the best cultivated districts of Scotland, 4870;
slowness of, in some districts, 4881.
Ploughman, a good one described, 33.
Ploughman, head, 7716.

Plucknet's attempt at a reaping-machine, 2733.
Plum, the, well deserving of cultivation, 4100.

Plums, baking, the best sorts of, for an orchard, 4095.
Plums, culture of, in Austria, 629.

Plums, dessert, for an orchard, 4096.
Plumule of plants, 1948.
Poaching salmon, 3901.
Pocket-rule, the, 2505.
Pointer, the, 7399.

Poison tree of Java, 946.

Poland, present agriculture of, 641; landed estates
in, 642; houses of the noble postmasters in, 642;
climate of, 644; surface of, 645; soil of, 646; the
southern part of, 647; the landed estates of the
vice-regal portion of, 649; the cultivators, 650;
arable culture of, 651; implements and operations
of agriculture in, 652; the live stock of, 653; the
forests of, 654; management of bees in, 655; im-
provements in the agriculture of, since 1814, 662.
Pole-cat, the, 7628.

Police, professional, relative to agriculture, 7909.
Polignac, Comte Charles de, his work on agricul-
ture, page 1218. A. D. 1822.

Political circumstances, as influencing agriculture,

1272.

Pores of plants, 1388.

Porpoise, the, an enemy to fish, 3893.

Porta, J. B., his work on agriculture, page 1219.
A. D. 1592.

Portraying of rural objects, 3347.

Portugal, agricultural circumstances of, 749.
Pot tree, the, of Brazil, 1235.

Potash in animals, 1927.

Potato, the, 5921; as human food, 5295; value of,
as a fallow crop, 5298; varieties of the, 5300;
soil for, 5307; climate for, 5310; season for plant-
ing, 5311; preparing the sets of, 5312; modes of
planting, 5316; after-culture of, 5327; taking of
the crop of, 5338; storing and preserving, 5342; |
produce of, 5348; application of, 5349; the ex-
traordinary applications of, 5361; application of,
as food for live stock, 5365; machine for washing,
5367; the boiling of, 5368; frosted, 5369; diseases
of, 5$70.

Potato cleaner, the, 2547.

Potato dibber, 2470.

Potato scoop, Edinburgh, 2494.

Potatoes, introduction of, 238; of Ireland, 838; in
Spain, 726.

Potato-set scoop, the, 2498.
Potato-weighing machine, 2569.
Poultry. See Cock and Hen, 7439.
Poultry farmers, 7727.

Poultry-house, interior arrangement of the, 2842.
Poultry houses, 2840. 7431; furniture or fixtures of,
7434; utensils of, 7437; at Winnington, Lord
Penrhyn's, 7814.

Poultry-yard, 2914.

Power requisite to estimate, 3320.
Préaudeau-Chemilly, Eugene, his work on agricul-
ture, page 1217. A. D. 1794.

Préfontaine, his work on agriculture, page 1215,
A. D. 1763.

Pressing plough, the, 2714.

Prevost, Bénédict, his work on agriculture, page
1218. A. D. 1807.

Prévôt de Rivolta, his work on agriculture, page
1222. A. D. 1826.

Prize essays, and Transactions of the Highland
Society of Scotland. Anon. page 1211. A. D.
1799-1830.

Professor of agricultural science, the, 7758.
Professorships of agriculture, 806; public, 7924.
Profit of the Roman farmers, 168.

Profits to which a farmer is entitled, 4799.
Propagation by seeds, 1641; by gems, 1646; by
leaves, 1649; by runners, 1650; by slips, 1651;
by layers, 1652; by suckers, 1653; by grafting and
budding, 1654.

Propagation of the species of plants, causes limiting,
1655.

Propriety, 3371.

Pruning, 3158; objects of, 3159; for promoting the
growth and bulk of a tree, 3160; for lessening the
bulk of a tree, 3161; for modifying the form of
the tree, $162, for adjusting the stem and branches
to the roots, 3163; for renewal of the head, 3164;
for curing diseases, 3165; coppice woods, 4003;
deciduous trees, 3997; effect of, on timber trees,
$972; frondose or resinous trees, 3988; hedges,
4005; hedge-row trees, 4006; orchard trees, 4111;
trees, 1677; the manner of, 3993; plantations,
3989; the general seasons of, 3994; implements
necessary for, 3996.

Prussia, improvements in the agriculture of, 567.
575; surface and soil of, 568; soil of the maritime
provinces of, 569; landed estates in, 570; general
course of cultivation in, 571; live stock of, 572;
implements of husbandry of, 573; produce of the
soil of, 574; culture of the vine in, 590; good
effected by the present king of, 591.
Pubescence of plants, 1319.
Puddling canals, 5824.

Puddling, 3827; history of, 3829.
Pulling crops, 3181.

Pulp of plants, structure of the, 1370.
Pulverisation of soils, 2163.
Pumps for raising water, 4500.
Purchase of landed property, 3455.
Pushing, 3117.

Putin, Charles, his work on agriculture, page 1215.
A. D. 1663.

Puvis, M. A., his work on agriculture, page 1219.
A. D. 1826,

Pyrites, use of, in burning clay, 3228.

Q.

Quail, the, 7558; Persian mode of hunting, 873.
Quarries, method of draining, 4274; working of,
3861.

Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, Anon. page 1214
A. D. 1828-1831.
Queen's county, statistics of, 7870.
Quércus Suber, in Spain, 747.
Quinquina, extract of, 1411.

R.

Rabbit, the, 7341; warrens of the, 7343; varieties
of, for stocking warrens, 7546; breeding and rear-
ing of, 7351. 7356; the Angora, 7354; feeding,
7357; flesh of, 7359; diseases, 7363.
Rabbitry, the, 2843.

Rabbit's dung, as a manure, 2262.

Radcliffe, Rev. T., his work on agriculture, page
1213. A. D. 1819.

Rags, woollen, as a manure, 2250.
Rail-roads, 3543.

Railways, 3785; advantage of, 3791; forming and
constructing, 3792; of stone, Matthews's, 3703,
Rain, 2367; phenomena of, 2368; cause of, 2369;
monthly and annual quantities of, 2372.
Rain-gauge, use of the, 2426.

Rain water, collecting, from roads in ponds, 4465.
Rake, the, 2449; the horse or stubble, 2725; the
couch-grass, 2726; Weir's improved hay or corn,

2727.

Raking machines, 2723.

Ramenta of plants, 1317.

Randall, J., his works on agriculture, page 1208.
A. D. 1764.

Rape, 6075; soils for, 6079; sowing, 6093; trans-
planting, 6085; after-culture of, 6087; harvest-
ing, 6089; produce of, 6091; uses of, 6092.
Rape-cake, as a manure, 2234.

Raspberry as an orchard fruit, 4104.
Rat, the domestic or Norway, 7632.
Rattery, Paul of Starston's, 7634.
Rat-traps, 2581.

Rauch, F. A., his work on agriculture, page 1217.
A. D. 1802

Re, Filippo, his works on agriculture, page 1221.
A. D. 1808.

Réaumur, Réné, Antoine Ferchault, sieur de, his
work on agriculture, page 1215. A. D. 1749.
Reaping, 3173. 3178; by the acre, 3180; wheat,
5043.

Reaping-hook, the, 2481; the smooth, 2482; Hut-
ton's improved, 2483.

Reaping machines, 2731. & 2737.
Reaping machines, 2731.

Rearing domestic animals, 2066.
Receptacle of plants, 1324.

Recollection of surfaces and of country of great in-

terest to the agriculturist, 3298.

Redolfi, Cosimo, his work on agriculture, page 1222.
A. D. 1818.

Reds, vegetable, for dyeing, 1416.

Reed, method of thatching with, 3190.

Reider, T., his work on agriculture, page 1220.

A. D. 1825.

Rein-deer, the, 7361.

Religion, as influencing agriculture, 1273.

Rennie, George, Esq., his work on agriculture, page
1210. A. D. 1794.

Rent of grazing farms, 4796; of land among the
Anglo-Saxons, 202; in Scotland, 4795; in Eng-
land, 4797.

Rents of landed estates, receiving of, 4702.

Rents of leases, 4688.

Repairs in drains, 4266.

Reproduction in animals, 1972.

Resin, Botany Bay, 1467; green, 1466.

Resins, vegetable, 1453; use of, 1471.

Rhubarb, 6176; culture of, 6177; Chinese mode of
curing, 6178.

Ribbe, M., his work on agriculture, page 1220.
A. D. 1826.

Ribbing, 3255.

Ribbing wheat, 5033.

Ribworm, plaintain, the, 5625.

Ricci Jacopo, his works on agriculture, page 1222.
A. D. 1816.

Rice, 5185; cultivation of, in Egypt, 1078.
Richards, John, his work on agriculture, page 1207.
A. D. 1730.

Richardson's machine for raising large stones, 4523.
Richter, K. F., his works on agriculture, page 1220.
A. D. 1804.

Ricinus commùnis, 862. 978.
Ricking of corn, 3176

Rick-stand, Waistell's circular, 2909.

Ridder, the, an addition to the plough, 7848.
Ridges, 3249; on dry, porous, turnip soils, 3250;
mode of forming straight, and of uniform breadth,
3251; the direction and length of, 3253; in Buck.
inghamshire, 7783.
Ridging, 3127.

Rid-plough, Finlayson's, 4540.

Riem, his work on agriculture, page 1216, A-D. 1770.
Riem, J., his works on agriculture, page 1220. A. D.
1792.

Rigaud de l'Isle, his work on agriculture, page
1216. A. D. 1759.

Rigby, Edward, M. D., F. L. S., his works on agri-
culture, page 1213. A. D. 1820,
Rein-deer moss, 696.

Rippling, 3201.

Rippling flax, 5899.
River farmers, 7742.
River-meadows, 5769.
River plants, 1745.

Rivers, altering the course of, 4371; a common
cause of injury to the banks of, 4362; the natural
licence of, 4359; operations for improving, 4360;
raising to a higher level, 4577; sometimes inju
rious to lands, 2202.

Rückert, G. Ch. Alb., his work on agriculture, page
1220. A. D. 1800,

Roads, the best materials for making, 3635.
Roads, breadth of, 3595; ought to be wide and
strong, 3597; narrow, 3601; drainage of, 3602.
Road-bridges, 3611.

Roads, concave, 3670; convex, 8671; semi-convex,
3674; advantage of good, 3523; M'Adam's plan
of making, 3527; paving of, 3697; junction of,
5620; laying out over a hill, 3559; direction of,
through an extensive estate, 3562; machine for
scraping, 3749; machine for sweeping, 3751; Bid-
dle's machine for repairing, 3757; arrangement
of, on farms, 4210; national, 3530; parochial, 3531;
of estates, 3533; of farms, 3594; paved, 3588;
planked, 3542; the laying out of, 3545; the line of
direction in, 3547; on an inclined plane, 7812;
preparation of the base of, 3622; preservation of,
3727; repair of, 3744; the proper degree of con-
vexity for, 3676; proper width of, 3566; strength
of, 3567; durability of, 3569; smoothness of,
3570; wear or decay of, $571; washing, $754;
Paterson's system of repairing, 3760; M'Adam's
system of repairing, 3763.

Road embankments, 3611.
Road fences, 3617.

Road-harrow, Harriott's, 3745.

Road-making, M'Adam's theory and practice of,
3581.

Robertson, George, his works on agriculture, page
1210. A. D. 1795.

Robertson, James, D.D., his works on agriculture,
page 1211. A. D. 1799.

Rocca, Abbé Della, his work on agriculture, page
1221. A. D. 1790.

Roccella tinctòria, as a scarlet dye, 697.
Rocks, improvement of, 4517; primitive, 2102; of
transition, 2103; floëtz, 2104; volcanic, 2106; re-
lative situation of, in Britain, 2107; how con-
verted into soils, 2111.

Rocks or stones, modes of rending, by gunpowder,
4524.

Roe, the, 7371.

Roller, the, 2707; the parted cast-iron, 2708; the
spiky or compound, 2709; the only essential,
2717.

Roller and water box, 2711.

Rolling, 3269.

Rolling newly laid on road metals, 3694.

Rolling roads, 3755; Telford's directions for repair-
ing, 3774; the best seasons for repairing, 3780.
Roman authors, 44; Cato, 45; Varro, 46; Virgil,
47; Columella, 48; Pliny the elder, 49; Palladius,

50.

Romans, ass, use of, among the, 105; mules, 106;
horse, 108; dog, 108; plough of the Romans,
110; wheel ploughs, invention of, 113; brake,
114; hoes, 117-119; spade, 120; instruments,
Roman 114-123; reaping hook, 123; ploughing,
among the Romans, 127; fallowing, 128; manur-
ing, 129; marl, 130; sowing, among the Romans,
131; reaping, 132; reaping machine, Roman, 133.
Romans, culture and farm management of the, 71;
farm, choice of one, directed, 72; soil, 74; villa,
origin of the, 75; position of a, 80; divided into
three parts, 81; servants, agricultural, 85; bailiff,
86; ploughman, Roman, requisites of a, 88; wages
in agriculture amongst the Romans, 89; beasts of
labour used by the Romans, 93; breeding of
cattle, 93; training cattle, 98; oxen, how fed and
used, 100; direction for purchasing, 104; thresh-
ing, 135; winnowing, 137; hay-making, 138;
weeding, 139; corn, pasturing, and harrowing,
140; watering lands, 141; draining, 143; fencing,
144; trees, management of, 145; fruits of the,
146; grasses, cereal, 148; legumes, 149; sesa-
mum, 150; plants, herbage, 151; crops used in
the arts, 152; crops, ligneous, 153; fruit trees,
154; animals, 156; maxims, 157.
Romney marsh, 4559.

Ronalds's select list of orchard apples, 4098.
Ronconi, Ignazio, his work on agriculture, page
1221. A. D. 1804.

Root, anomalies of the, 1590.
Root-breaker, 2557.

Roxburghshire, statistics of, 7836.

Savoy, agriculture of, 354; land in, $55; lands of
the monasteries in, 356; peasantry of, 357; four
modes of occupying land in, 359; land near towns,
560; farming land in, 361; occupying land in,
by grangers and by tacheurs, 362, 363; leases
granted to the farmers and grangers in, 361; pas-
turage in, 365; public dairies in, 366; sheep in,
367; vineyards in, 368; walnut trees in, 369;
walnut harvest in, 370; tobacco in, 373; artificial
grasses in, 374; grass lands and water meadows
of, 375; agricultural improvements in, 376; salt-
works of Montiers in, 377.

Saw, the, 2490.

Sawing, 3150.

Saxony, state of agriculture in, 607; culture of the
vine and silkworm in, 608; the wool of, 609; ge-
neral rotation of crops in, 610; cows of, 611;
Jacob's opinion of the agriculture of, 613.
Scales of animals, 1869.

Rubbing-post for pigsties, 2828.

Rules for the arrangement of farm labour, 4913.
Rush, the esparto, in Spain, 722.

Russia, portion of, fit for aration, 664; climates of,
665; surface of, 659; soil of, 670; landed pro-
perty in, 671; the farmeries of, 672; agricultural
products of, 673; farming crops of the more
southern regions of, 674; the culture of herbage
plants in, 675; plants grown for commercial uses
in, 676; fruits generally grown in, 678; live stock
of the farmer in, 679; forests of, 680; implements
and operations of husbandry in, 683; field oper-
ations of, 684; improvement of agriculture in,

685.

Scarcement in hedgemaking, arguments for and
against a, 3009.

Scarifier, Henry's improved, 2673.
Scarifier or hash, the Sithney, 2716.
Scheffold, L., his work on agriculture, page 1220.
A. D. 1809.

Schönlenter, M., his work on agriculture, page 1220.
A. D. 1810.

Schuster, J., and M. Haberle, their work on agricul-
ture, page 1220. A. D. 1825.
Schwertz, N., his work on agriculture, page 1220.
A. D. 1825.

Scirpus tuberosus, the, of China, 986.
Scorer, the, 2491.

Scotland, agriculture of, after the Norman Con-
quest, 208; during the thirteenth, fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries, 213; in the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries, 215; agriculture of, in the
sixteenth century, 226. 241; in the seventeenth
century, 242; agriculture in, during the Revolu-
tion, 770; first improvement in the roads of, 771;
benefit to the agriculture of, 772; general remarks
on, 7832.

Scraper, the, 2464.

Sack-barrow, the, 2541.

S.

Saddle-grafting, a peculiar mode of, practised in
Worcestershire, 7792.

Saffron, the, or autumn crocus, 6169, uses of, 6173.
Saffron, extract of, 1412.
Sagapenum, 1479.

Saintfoin, 5595; varieties of, 5596; soil for, 5597;
sowing, 5599; after-culture and management of,
5603; taking and using the crop of, 5606; dura-
tion of, 5609; produce of, 5610; nutritive pro.
ducts of 5611; saving the seed of, 5612; thresh-
ing out the seeds of, 5614; produce in seed of,
5616; diseases of, 5617.
Salep plant, culture of the, 6184.
Salesman, agricultural, 7748.
Saline solutions, as a manure, 2308.
Salisbury, W., his work on agriculture, page 1213.

A. D. 1822.

Salmon's attempt at a reaping-machine, 2735.
Salmon, 7584; enemies of the young, 3889; fishery
of, 3885; in rivers, 7850; spawning of, 7850; va
rious modes of taking, 3895; weirs for, Marshal's
opinion of, 3900.

Salmon trout, 7850.

Salop, 1401.

Salt, as a manure, 2306; good for most animals,
2074; production of, 3872.

Salts, as part of the food of plants, 1580.

Scraping roads, 3748.

Scythe, the Hainault, 509. 2479; the great Bra
bant, 510; the cradle, 2480; for reaping grain
crops, 3179; used in irrigation, 4401.

Seal, the, 3393.

A. D. 1777.

Sandarach, 1457.

Sandwich Isles, the, 1059.

Sang's opinion on pruning, $989.

Sap, 1495; ascent of the 1539-1544; causes of the,
1545-1550; elaboration of the, 1551; perspir-
ation of, 1555; of plants, 1475.

Sarcey-de-Sutières, his works on agriculture, page
1215. A. D. 1765.

Sartorelli, G. B., his work on agriculture, page
A. D. 1826.

Sauerkraut, 5507.

1222.

Saussure's experiment respecting vegetable extract
as the food of plants, 1529.
Savory, culture of, 6180.

Serradilla, the, 5689.

Serres, Olivier de, his work on agriculture, page
1214. A. D. 1600.

Servants, choice of, for the farmer, 4866; the mode
of hiring at public statutes, 4869; management
of, 4900.

Servants, female, required in a farmery, 4878.
Servieres, B. de, his work on agriculture, page 1216.
A. D. 1786.

Sésamum orientale, 978. 6097.
Setters, 7400.

Settlers in the United States, practice of, 1165.
Sexes of plants, 1622.

Shade and shelter for certain plants, necessity of,
1827.

Shafts, double, advantage of, on roads, 3742.
Shakes in trees, to remedy, 4031.

Shapes which indicate a propensity to fatten
soonest, 2031.

Sheath, the, or land-guard of loose stones, 4966.
Sheaves of corn, an improved method of setting
up, 3177; methods of drying, 704.
Sheaving of corn, 3175

Sheds, portable, for pasture lands, 5828.
Sheep, the, 7112; the common, in a wild state,
7113; value of, to the British farmer, 7114.
Sheep, varieties of, 7115; the long-woolled British,
7117; the short-woolled, 7118; the hornless
breeds, 7119; sheep best suited to arable land,
7120; the long-woolled large breeds, 7121, the
shorter-woolled varieties, 7126; sheep that range
over the mountainous districts of Britain, 7133,
the Spanish or Merino breed, 7138.

Sheep, criteria of properties in, of an excellent ram,
7142; of a sound healthy sheep, 7143; of age,
7144; names of the different ages and conditions
of sheep, 7145.

Sheep, breeding, 7146; season of putting the rams
to the ewes, 7153; period of gestation, 7154; keep
of sheep after lambing, 7159; castrating lambs,
7160; weaning of lambs, 7161.

Sheep, rearing and management of, 7162; on rich
grass and arable lands, 7166; treatment of the
lambs, 7168; selection of the lamb stock, 7170;
selection of the grown stock, 7172; shearing,
7173; washing, 7177; marking, 7185; shortening
the tails, 7186; rearing and management on
hilly and mountainous districts, 7190; store farm.
ing, 7192

Sheep, folding, 7208.

Sheep, fattening, 7219; fattening lambs, 7224.
Sheep, the Merino breed, 7240; introduction of,
7231; Dr. Parry's experiments with, 7232, shear-
ing of, 7237; produce of the wool of, 7236; Lord
Somerville's experiments with, 7257.

Sheep, anatomy and physiology of, 7239; skeleton
of, 7241; the visceral and soft parts, 7242; wool
of, 7243.

Sheep, diseases of, 7244; of lambs, 7273.
Sheep, the Berkshire polled, 7790, of Berwick-
shire, 7835; in Buckinghamshire, 7783; of the
Cape of Good Hope, 127; of the farm of Coldin-
gen, near Hanover, 600; of Dorsetshire, manage-
ment of, 7819; of the Hebrides, 7859; of Hin-
dustan, 913; the Hungarian, 632; improvement
of, on the farm at Moegelin, 55; in Leicester-
shire, 7798; of Perthshire, 7849; of Spain, 735;
management of, 737-742; when first fcd on the
ground with turnips, 237.
Sheep-shearing in Spain, 741.
Shell-fish fishery, 3883.

Shell sand, as a manure, 2288.

Shell slug, the, 7706

Shells of animals, 1870.

Sheltering farm-lands, 4584.

Sheltering and shading lands, 2215, 2216.
Shepherd, the, 4876,

Shetland Isles, statistics of the, 7861.

Shirreff, John, his work on agriculture, page 1213.
A. D. 1814.

Shocking of corn, 3175.

Shoeing of horses in Flanders, 520.

Shoots, annual, 1569.

Shorelands, improvement of, 4567.
Shovel, the, 2446.

Shovelling, 3124.

Shropshire, statistics of, 7795.

Siam, the kingdom of, 949; agriculture of the, 950;
soil of the, 951.

Sickle, for reaping grain crops, $179.

Sickler, F. Ch. L., his work on agriculture, page
1220. A. D. 1805.

Sida filiæfolia, use of, in China, 982.

Siebe's rotatory pump, 4501.

Sierra Leone, description of, 1105.

Sieuve, works on agriculture, p. 1216. A. D. 1769.
Sieves, 2523.

Sifting earth or gravel, 3135.

Silicia in animals, 1952; in plants, 1504.
Silk, culture of, in Hungary, 629.

Silkworm, the, 7595; breeding of, 7596; in the
south of France, 415.

Simonde, J. C. L., his work on agriculture, page 1221.
A. D. 1801.

Simpson, Pinder, his works on agriculture, page
1213. A. D. 1814, 1815.

Sinclair, George, F.L.S., F.H.S., &c. his work on
agriculture, page 1213. A. D. 1824.

Smith, Rev. John, D. D., his work on agriculture,
page 1211. A. D. 1798.

Smith, William, his works on agriculture, page 1212,
A. D. 1806.

Smith's attempt at a reaping machine, 2736; his
opinion on irrigation, 4387.
Smithy, on a large farm, 2869.
Smoking tobacco, antiquity of, 6124.
Smut, the, in corn, 1653. 5064.
Smut machine, the, 2796.
Snail, the edible, 7618.
Snails, 7707.

Snow, 2376; of great use to the vegetable kingdom,
2377; heat produced from, 2324.

Societies, agricultural, 7911; lately formed in Bri-
tain, 800.

Society of Arts, the, 7913.

Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agricul-
ture, in Scotland, institution of the, 793.
Society, state of, as influencing agriculture, 1270.
Soda in animals, 1928.

Soderini, Giovanvettorio, his work on agriculture,
page 1221. A. D. 1622.
Soil among trees, culture of, 3980.
Soil, as influencing agriculture, 1263.
Soils, exhaustion of, 1534; fertility of, restored,
1535; how distinguished from masses of earth,
2114; classification of, 2117; naming the genera
of, 2118; naming the species of, 2119; table of,
2120; to discover the value of, 2121; indicated by
the plants growing on them, 2122; the qualities
of, discovered by chemical analysis, 2133; the
qualities of, discovered mechanically and empiri-
cally, 2137; the absorbent powers of, 2145; po-
pular distinctions of, 2157; chemical agency of,
2160; improvement of, 2162; pulverisation of,
2163; consolidation of, 2172; aëration or fallow-
ing of, 2174; alteration of the constituent parts
of, 2180, the capacity of, for retaining water, to
ascertain, 2144; incineration of, 2191; burning of,
2192; water with respect to, 2199.

Soils, mixed or secondary, 1743; aquatic, for plants,
1744; earthy, of plants, 1747; vegetable, of plants,

1755.

Soils, the most proper, for irrigation, 4386; Smith's
opinion respecting, 4387; peaty, 2112; spurious
peaty, 2113; power of vegetables to exhaust, 2219;
in respect to farming lands, 4743; retentive,
mode of draining, 4267; use of the, to vegetables,
2145. 2148; the constituent parts of, which give
tenacity, 2149; power of, to absorb water by
capillary attraction, 2152; power of, to absorb
water from air, 2153.

Solar rays, influence of, on vegetation, 2326,
Solids, animal, 1957; the soft, 1961; the hard, 1962.
Solomon Isles, the, 1052.

Somersetshire, statistics of, 7820.

Somerville, Right Hon. John, Lord, his works on
agriculture, page 1211. A. D. 1799.

Somerville, Robert, his work on agriculture, page
1212. A. D. 1805,

Soot, as a manure, 2268.

Soaper's waste, as a manure, 2310.

South America, climate, surface, and soil of, 1226.
Sowing, 3148.

Sowing of pine seed in Flanders, 529.

Spade of the bushman, 1139; the Flemish, 2445;
used in irrigation, 4595; the trenching, 512.

Spadoni, Paolo, his works on agriculture, page 1222.
A. D. 1810.
Spain, agriculture of, in the middle of the 18th cen-
tury, 714; during the 19th century, 115; climate
of, 716; surface of, 717; soil of, 718; landed pro-
perty of, 719; bad feature in the old government
of, 720; agricultural products of, 721; rotations
of common crops in, 733; live stock of the agri-
culturist in, 734; sheep of, 735; implements of
agriculture in, 744; operations of agriculture in,
745; forests in, 747; improvement of agriculture
in, 748; cause of the decline of agriculture in, 712.
Spaniels, 7401.

Speed, Adam, his works on agriculture, page 1207.

A. D. 1659.

Sponge, a good hygrometer, 2420.

Storax, 1485.

Store farmers, 7736.

Streams, artificial, 4464.

Strobile of plants, scales of the, 1856.
Stubble, as a thatch for ricks, 3187.
Stubble or dew rake, 2453.

drainage, 4255.

Spray of trees, uses of the, 4059.

Springs, artificial, 4503.

Springs on lands, injury done by, 2201.

Spring-latch for gates, 3089.

Spring, temperature of, influence of, on plants, 1727.

Spur of rye, 5079.

Spurry, 5632; culture of, in the Netherlands, 482.
Spurs of animals, 1866,

Stable, the, 2816.

Stumming cider-casks, 4132.

Stumpf, G., his work on agriculture, page 1220.

A. D. 1794.

Straw of barley, use of, 5118.

Straw of corn, uses of the, 4990.

Straw of rye, manufacture of, into plaits, 5077.
Straw of wheat, uses of, 5051.

Straw, dry, as a manure, 2258.
Straw-house, the, 2864.
Straw-rope making, 3184.

on agriculture, page 1211. A. D. 1800.

Stack-borer, the, 2488.

Stack-cover, the, 2912.

Stack-funnel, the, 2911.

Stack-guard, the, 3288.

Stack-yard, the, 2906; Mitchell's, 2907.
Stacking, 3276.

Stacking stage, 3289.

Stacking wood for fuel, &c., 3207, 3208.
Staffordshire,

Stag, the, 7370.

statistics of, 7796.

Staircases to cottages, economical mode of forming,
2895.

Stake and rice, protecting hedges by, 3017.
Standing, in animals, 1899.

Stanley, Robert A., Esq., his work on agriculture,
page 1213. A. D. 1824.

Starch, 1400; plants producing, 1402; uses of, 1403.
Steam-engines, employment of, in draining, 4277.
Steaming house, the, 2863.

Steaming machine, on a simple and economical
plan, 2805.

Steaming and washing machine, economical, 2804.
Stedman, Captain, his residence in Surinam, 1243.
Steele, Andrew, his work on agriculture, page 1213.
A. D. 1826.

Steelyard, Ruthven's farmer's, 2570.
Steeping flax, 5905.

Steindel, A. H. von, his work on agriculture, page
1220. A. D. 1800.

Steining wells, 4479.

Stem of herbaceous plants, structure of the, 1377.
Stem of plants, anomalies in the, 1597.

Stephens, George, his work on agriculture, page
1214. A. D. 1829.

Stephens's mode of forming and planting the single
hedge and ditch, 2997.

Steuart, Sir Henry, his system of removing large

Suffolk punch, the, 6242.

Suffolk, statistics of, 7787.

Sugar, 1398; utility of, 1399; culture of, among the
Moors, 711; in animals, 1946; from the beet
root, manufacture of, in the Netherlands, 476.
Sugar-cane, culture of, in Jamaica, 1212; in Ma-
laga, 729; management of, in Egypt, 1082; the,
in Hindustan, 895.

Sugar plantation, buildings required for a, 1204;
live stock of a, 1209.

Sulphate of iron, as a manure, 2300.
Sulphate of potassa, as a manure, 2307.
Sulphur in animals, 1923.

Sumatra, description of, 1021; live stock of, 1027.
Summer-fallowing in Scotland, when first practised,

794.

Summer, temperature of; influence of, on plants,
1728.

Sunflower, the, as an oil plant, 6100.
Sutherland, statistics of, 7856.

Surface, character of, in regard to farming lands,
4769.

Surface, general, of land estates, to portray, 3351.
Surfaces, grassy, formation of, 5714.
Surface-gutters made by cart wheels, 4301.
Surfaces, primitive, affecting plants, 1741.
Surgeon, veterinary, 7755.