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Cleaning land, 210, 269

Clergy, 253

Clothes washed by steam, 13, note

easy and advantageous mode of providing children

with, 327

Clover, expenditure of 24 acres, 97

dressings for, 108, 223

used as green feed, 162

mixture of rye-grass recommended with, 162

management of, 191

Coal ashes, as manure, 54

Coke, Mr. 225

Coleman, Prof. his horse-shoe long used in India, 25
Coleseed, 41, 44, 64, 77

Collins, Mr. 136

Corn, necessity of bruising, 25

farms, 61

desirable to increase the quantity of, in this country
105, 110

for seed, should be of the best quality, 107

bounties on importation of, 151

public stores for, 152

Cottages, 239

Couch grass, 216

Cows, calving, 165

milch, feed of, 39, 61, 65

green winter feeding, 40

their health not injured by keeping in the house, 42

hints respecting their sheds, 43

oil-cake good food for, 44

expense of feeding, 47

profit on, 49, 65-84, 92, 100

affected by the state of the atmosphere, 66

clover consumed by, 162, 163

Cows,

Cows, milch, consumption of water by, 103

Cropping, system of, 204

Dansie, R. S. esq. 15, 19

letter from, 23

Davy, Mr, 174

Des Cartes, 252

Dickinson, Dr. W. letter from, 99

Docks, 215, 216

Dodgson, Mr. John, 182

Draining, 207

Drill husbandry, 44, 47, 144, 214, 221, 268

Dundas, Lord, 102

Economy, 246

Education, 89, 363

Ellerton, Rev. E. 214

Evaporation from land, 273, 276, 281

Evelyn, Sir George Shuckburgh, 145

Experiments, 217

caution respecting, 4

Farmers, jealousy of, 232

Farming, general hints on, 197-259

by gentlemen, 197

Farms, period of entering on, 228

Faulder, Mr. 90, 251

Fences, 241

Ferns, Dr. Samuel, 38

Flanders, 150

Food, bulk requisite too, 10, 31
consumption of, by stock, 236

Friendly societies, 285

Gaff, Mr. Thomas, letter from, 96

Garget,

Garget, 165, 166
Gentlemen, farming by, 197

Gibson, C. esq.-235

Granaries, public, 152

Grasses, waste of different kinds in drying, 175
Grazing compared with soiling, 171

Green crops, tables of, 57, 58

great benefit from, 111

Green food for milch cows, 40

feeding stock on, 50, 51,

Grieve, John, esq. letter to, 16
Gypsum, 108, 114, 167, 222

Harrow hoe, 214

iron, 237

Hay compared with potatoes as food for horses, 6

as well as straw should be cut, 10

at 2d. per stone, no animal will pay the expense of
feeding on, 40

compared with green crops as feed, 58

Horses, working, fed with steamed potatoes, 3—34
allowance of oats to, 11

carrots a substitute for oats, 11, 60, 263.
estimates of the feed of, 11, 29, 32

their treatment in Hindostan, 25

fed on potatoes, should have but little water, 33

sea-sand used as bedding for, 67

number of, in England, 143
produce of land consumed by, ib.

expense of, in husbandry, 251

Hounds fed in part with potatoes, 4
Hurry, 206

Impatience, 205

Implements of husbandry, 258

Innclosure,

Inclosure acts, 127

Iron rail roads, 143

ploughs and harrows, 237

Irrigation, 253

Kent, Mr. 230

Kohlrabi, 41, 44, 64, 74

Labour, 217

Labourers, pay of, 179

Lancashire, a manufacturing county badly cultivated, 118

Lancaster, Mr. 363

Land, value of, 243

Landaff, vide Watson.

Landholders most affected by the high price of corn, 153

Leases, 224

Lime, 108

Local differences, 221

Lucerne, 165

M'Dougall, Mr. his pendulum churn, 70

Machines, 220-

Malthus, Mr. 87, 113, 356

Manufactories, 115, 118, 154, 369

Manures, 221, 268, 269

Markets, attendance on, 244

Mason, Mr. C. 40, 136, 222

Method, 204

Milk, means of supplying the poor with, 37-157

quantity of, affected by the state of the atmosphere, 66

supplying the poor with, a great advantage to land-
owners, 78

consumption of, in London, 80

in various places, 81

increased supply of, increases the demand, 83

Milk, happy effects of it as diet, 84

an advantageous beverage for hardworking people, 90
a supply of, diminishes the consumption of small
beer, 94

increased in bulk by the separation of the cream, 97
Miners society at Workington, 285, 300
Money, depreciation of, 145

Morals, growing corruption of, 295

Mowing grain a great advantage, 244

Oak, quantity required for a ship, 242
Oats, allowance of, to horses, 11

carrots a good substitute for, 11, 60, 263
best crop to follow potatoes, 107
compared with carrots, 177

culture of, 204, 223

Oil-cake, good food for cows, 44, 93

expensive food, 50

yields valuable manure, 51

should be ground and boiled with chaff, 75

Ormandy, Mr. 183

Overman, Mr. 225

Oxen, their average consumption of hay, 9

fed with potatoes, 34

Parkinson, Mr. 204, 222

Pastures, permanent, 215

Pitt, Mr. 117, 252 -

Plantations, 241

Plough, double coulter, 201

iron, 287

Ploughing deep, 204, 208, 209, 237

answers the purpose of rain to a crop, 212

remarks on, 236, 273

Ponsonby,

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