Chapter 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._