Part 37
_Earth_, the Price of a Foot of it, and of a Row 124, 125 Particles of Earth much more heterogeneous after passing Vessels, 237 _Effluvia_ of Animal Bodies noxious, 32 _Equivocal Generation_ disproved, 78, 79 _Exhaustion_, 270, 271
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_Food_, or _Pabulum_ of Plants, what it is, 15, _&c._ _Frost_, how it is advantageous, 116 _Furrow_, 114 Furrows lying long open next the Rows of Wheat beneficial; and the Cause of it, 422, 423
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_Grass_, natural, why not killed by constant Feeding, 187
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_Harrowing_, how injurious, 46 Of harrowing Wheat-Ridges, 100, 101, 103 _Heat_, the very least Degree of it hard to distinguish from the very least Degree of Cold, 34 _Hills_, Mr. _Bradley_’s quibbling Arguments about them answered, 248 Wet Hills made dry by plowing them cross the Descent, 241-247 _Hoeing_ in general defined, 47 Its Uses and Benefit, 47-73 The Error of fansying that Hoeing lets in the Drought, 52 Hoed Plants do not impoverish Land, as sown Plants do, 71 _Horse-hoeing_: Mr. _Evelyn_’s Observation of an Orchard, kept in Tillage, coming to Perfection in half the time of one not plowed, 57 Horse-hoeing supplies the Use of local Motion to Plants, 64 It equals Dung, 70, 94, 269 Its Benefits discovered by Change of Colour of the Plants next to it, 51 Comparison of it with Hand-hoeing, 49 Some general Directions for performing the Horse-hoeing Husbandry, 57, _&c._ 114, _&c._
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_Interval_, what it is, 61 Wide Intervals, 72, 122, _&c._ The Reason why Intervals may be narrower for Barley than for Wheat, 63
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_Land_ strong and light, 38, _&c._ No one Arable Land exceeds another above twenty times in Richness, 44 Land burnt becomes next to barren, 40 Land without Cement is unfit for Tillage, 44 Land that is unfit for Horse-hoeing, 72 _Luserne_ described, 193 The Goodness of Luserne, _ibid._ The Antients Superstition concerning it, 194, _&c._ 210, _&c._ Swelling of Cattle by eating Luserne when green, 194 Why Luserne is more proper for the Hoeing Husbandry than the common Husbandry in _England_, 199, _&c._ The Soil most proper for Luserne, 204 Directions about planting Luserne, 205, _&c._ Luserne decays as natural Grass increases amongst it, 197, _&c._ 213
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_Mints_, several Experiments made on them, 8, _&c._ Observation upon those Experiments, and Inferences from them, 11, _&c._
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New and Old Husbandry, the Differences between them, 254, _&c._
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_Objections_ likely to prepossess People’s Minds against making Trials of the Horse-hoeing Husbandry answered, 64, _&c._ 129, _&c._
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_Pasture_ of Plants described, 22, _&c._ How the Vegetable Pasture differs from the Vegetable _Pabulum_, 22 The artificial Pasture of Plants vastly exceeds the natural, 27, _&c._ _Plants_, annual, that live the longest, have most need of hoeing, 92 They are more altered, as to their Growth, by Culture than by Climate, 204 There is no need to change the Species of Plants in Husbandry, on account of their supposed different Nourishment, 214, _&c._ Dr. _Woodward_’s Arguments for the vulgar Opinion in this Matter answered, 214, _&c._ Mr. _Bradley_’s Arguments for the same vulgar Opinion answered, 222 Mr. _Bradley_’s Arguments from the perpendicular Growth of Plants answered, 66, _&c._ 228, _&c._ Why long tap-rooted Plants do not succeed so well after one another, as they do after those that are not tap-rooted, 232 _Individuals_ of several Species (or Sorts) of Plants, are beneficially changed, 238, _&c._ _Partition_, what it is, 61 The Width of Partitions in the latest Practice, 108, _&c._ _Ploughs_, 277, _&c._ Hoe-Plough, 394, _&c._
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_Quick-lime_ for drying of brined Wheat to drill, 141
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_Ridges_, the Methods and Reasons for making them, 241 Ridges of Six Feet, Reasons for leaving them off, 108, _&c._ _Roller_, when injurious, 46 _Rooks_, to prevent their Damage, 107, _&c._ _Roots_, their Description, 1, _&c._ Several Ways to discover their horizontal Extent, 2, _&c._ The Cause of People’s being deceived in the Extent of Roots, 5 Great Length of Roots necessary, on account of their Office, 7 How Roots and Guts agree, and wherein they differ, 6, _&c._ How Roots take in the _Pabulum_, 41 Roots have a Communication in all their Cavities, 13 Roots supply each other reciprocally with Water and Food, _ibid._ Roots cannot easily penetrate, unless the Land be opened by Tillage, 6 The Rotting of the Roots of broad Clover, and St. Foin, is a Manure to Land, 234 _Rows_, the Inconveniencies of too many or too few on an Acre, 122, _&c._ Reasons for leaving off the middle Row, 108, _&c._ ’Tis no great Odds whether the Rows of Wheat, _&c._ stand on the precedent Partitions, or the Intervals, 424 Rows too near, and mixed Crops, discarded, 62 Single Row proposed for _Smyrna_ Wheat, 136, _&c._ Double, Treble, and even Quadruple Rows, are each called One Row, 62
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_St. Foin_, its Description and Names, 157 Directions for planting and ordering it, 159, _&c._ St. Foin, and other long tap-rooted Plants, suffer more by their Pasture’s being overstocked, than other Plants do, 167 Directions about St. Foin Hay, 173, _&c._ Quantity of St. Foin on an Acre, 186 Why St. Foin makes a forty times greater Crop on poor Land, than its natural Grass or Turf, 157 Directions for saving St. Foin Seed, 178, _&c._ Of feeding St. Foin by Sheep, 187 St. Foin Plants not killed by cutting off their Heads, 188 St. Foin takes Nine Parts in Ten of its Nourishment below the Staple of the Land, 191 Of breaking up old St. Foin, 189 Great Improvement made on Arable Land by St. Foin, 188, _&c._ _Sarrition_, 53, _&c._ _Seeds_, in their natural Climate do not degenerate, 238, _&c._ Causes why Seeds, as to their Individuals, do degenerate, _ibid._ How to know the most proper Depth to plant all sorts of Seeds at, 58, _&c._ Some sorts of Seeds come in the Air, or by Birds, 78 _Sheep_, how injurious to drilled Wheat, 149 _Smuttiness_ of Wheat, 139 The Causes of Smuttiness, _ibid._ The Cure of Smuttiness, _ibid._ _&c._ _Soils_ differ chiefly in respect of Heat and Moisture, 20, 21 A Soil can be exhausted by nothing but Roots, 276 There is no way for us to enrich a Soil but by Pulveration, and keeping it from being exhausted by Vegetables, _ibid._ _Stratum_: The _Under Stratum_ of light Land may be richer than that of strong Land, 191, 238
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_Tillage_ beneficial to all Sorts of Land, 36, _&c._ Tillage can never make Land too fine, 44 Tillage of the low Vineyards, 56, _&c._ Insufficient Tillage, how ’tis injurious, 40 Tillage can pulverize as well as Dung, 35, _&c._ The Plough, in Field-tillage, why preferable to the Spade, 280 The same Quantity of Tillage will produce the same Quantity of Food, _&c._, 230, _&c._ _Transplanting_, 48 _Trees_, the Damage they do to Crops is by robbing, as Weeds only, 74 The Reason why some sorts of Trees endure hard Winters better in _England_ than in _Languedoc_, 202 _Trials_ unexpensive proposed, 133, _&c._ _Turneps_, the Soil most proper for them, 79 Directions concerning them, 80 Advantage of drilling and horse-hoeing of Turneps, _ibid._ Several manners of spending Turneps by Sheep, 90
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_Veerings_ and Hentings, 123, _&c._ _Vineyards_ owe their great Products to the Hoe-tillage; and from them the Author first took his Scheme, 56, _&c._
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_Water_, how injurious, and how beneficial, to Wheat, 97 _Weeds_, their Definition, 73 Weeds pernicious in several respects, _ibid._ _&c._ Their Robbing proved by Experiment, 74 Why the Race of Weeds cannot be extirpated by the common Husbandry, 75 The Race of Weeds most likely to be extirpated by hoeing, 77 Weeds cannot be killed before they grow, 129 _Wheat_, why it requires hoeing more than Spring-Corn, 92, _&c._ Directions about drilling and hoeing of Wheat, _See Chap._ ix. How a Wheat-Crop is augmented, 119, _&c._ Of feeding Wheat by Sheep, 148, _&c._ Wheat Ears will be large or small, in proportion to the Nourishment given to their Plants, 119 Wheat-ears do not lodge, by reason of their Weight, 148, 149 Of weighing the Product of a Yard or Perch of a Row of Wheat, 129, _&c._ Cone Wheat and Lammas Wheat, their Difference, 425 _Smyrna_ Wheat, 104, 136, _&c._ Of keeping of Wheat by drying it, 131 Some Land unfit for Wheat, 117 The time proper for Hand-hoeing of Wheat, 132 _Winter_, what time is meant by it, 115
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