Horse-hoeing husbandry

• Artificial Pasture of Plants exceeds the Natural, p. 27, &c.
• Atmosphere, by Rain and Dews, reimburses the pulverized Earth, 70, 127
• B
• Barley, a hoed Plant of it produced Fifty large Ears, 65
• Barley drilled on Ridges must be reaped, 63
• But needs not be bound up in Sheaves, ibid.
• Barley is the worse for Seed by being sown at Patney, 240
• Blight, the true Causes of it, 144, &c.
• Remedies against the Blight, 149, &c.
• Breast-Plough insufficient for Tillage of strong turfy Land, 284
• C
• Change of Species of Plants not necessary on account of different Nourishment, 217, &c.
• Change of the Individuals of some Species of Plants, why useful, 239
• Clover, Broad, a Damage to Barley when sown amongst it, 188
• A Remedy against it, ibid.
• Cytisus, why it cannot be so great an Improvement in England as St. Foin, 172
• D
• Dung, in what manner ’tis beneficial, 29, &c.
• Dung is the Putrefaction of Earth altered by Vessels, 31
• It may afford some Warmth in Winter, but is sometimes injurious by its Hollowness, 34
• A considerable Quantity of Dung is necessary to the Old Husbandry, but not to the New, 33
• Dung, when reduced by a thorough Putrefaction, is next to nothing, 275
• Why Dung is not injurious to Corn, &c., 33
• Dung, why more beneficial to Turneps than to other Plants, 88
• Gross Dung, why it should be prohibited the Kitchen-Garden, 30, &c.
• E
• 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
• F
• 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
• G
• Grass, natural, why not killed by constant Feeding, 187
• H
• 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.
• I
• Interval, what it is, 61
• Wide Intervals, 72, 122, &c.
• The Reason why Intervals may be narrower for Barley than for Wheat, 63
• L
• 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
• M
• Mints, several Experiments made on them, 8, &c.
• Observation upon those Experiments, and Inferences from them, 11, &c.
• N
• New and Old Husbandry, the Differences between them, 254, &c.
• O
• Objections likely to prepossess People’s Minds against making Trials of the Horse-hoeing Husbandry answered, 64, &c. 129, &c.
• P
• 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.
• Q
• Quick-lime for drying of brined Wheat to drill, 141
• R
• 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
• S
• 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
• T
• 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
• V
• 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.
• W
• 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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