Abstract of the Directions published in the Dublin Essays concerning the Culture and Dressing of Flax, 353
Account of a threshing-machine, 276
Account of the Orphan Hospital at Edinburgh, 443
Account of the Society's Endeavours to promote our Manufactures, with Directions relative thereto, 308
Act for better Regulation of the Linen and Hempen Manufactures, 389
Act for encouraging and promoting Fisheries and other Manufactures and Improvements, 413
Aquavitae, Method of distilling and rectifying 288
Baird, Queries by Sir William, 112
Beating Flax, 336
Bethune, Queries by Mr., 79
Black, dying Linen-yarn, 371
Blacking of Corn, Directions to prevent the 263
Blasting and Smuttiness of Wheat, A Pickle to prevent the, 262
Blasting Rocks, Directions for 279
Bleaching Linen-yarn and Linen-cloth, Directions for, 343
Blue-gray, dying Linen-yarn, 371
Blue-vat, 365
Blue-vat, dying Linen-yarn, 365
Breaking Flax, 333
Burning Lime, and manuring Ground with Marl, Lime, Water, etc, 185
Burning Vegetables, and making Potashes and Soap, Directions for 281
Calcul of profit and Loss upon feeding a Bullock upon Graft and Hay without housing, 74
Case-hardening, Receipt for 278
Cathcart, Letter from Lord, 135
Cherry, Pink, or Blush, dying Linen-yarn, 373
Contents, xiv
Cream-cheese, Receipt for making 275
Crushing and Rubbing Flax, 335
Culture and Dressing of Flax, Abstract of the Directions published in the Dublin Essays concerning the, 353
Cuningham, Queries for Dr., 148
Curing smoky Chimneys, 140
Cytisus 172
Declaration, containing a Description of the Method of raising Kail-seed from burying the Blades in the Earth, 269
Dedication, iii
Descriptions and Directions for propagating, 301
Destroying Rats, &c., Receipt for 280
Different Methods of Filtering, 292
Directions for blasting Rocks, 279
Directions for bleaching Linen-yarn and Linen-cloth, 343
Directions for burning Lime, and manuring Ground with Marl, Lime, Water, etc, 185
Directions for burning Vegetables, and making Potashes and Soap, 281
Directions for ingrafting a Hundred-leaf Pale Rose into a Stock of Broom, 271
Directions for preparing Garden-ground, 270
Directions for using Marl, 265
Directions for weaving Linen-cloth, 341
Directions how to ingraft a common Codlin Apple into a Dutch or English Allar-stock, 271
Directions to Flax-raisers, 322
Directions to prevent the blacking of Corn, 263
Distilling, Directions, Descriptions, &c. relating to Husbandry, Gardening, Fatting Cattle, &c, 262
Distilling. Queries concerning, 293
Drams by Infusion, 290
Dunbar, Queries by Sir George, 38
Duninauld, Mr Robert Scot of, Advocate, 190
Dye Green, 369
Dye Lemon Colour, French Yellow, and Aurora, 367
Dye Logwood-blue, 366
Dye Olive Colour, 370
Dye fine Blue-gray, 371
Dye Linen-yarn Black, 371
Dye Linen or Cotton Yarn Red, 372
Dye Cherry, Pink, or Blush, 373
Dye Linen-yarn to make yellow Canvas, 374
Dye Orange Colour, 367
Dye Purple Colour 369
Dying Linen-yarn, 364
Education of the Boys and Girls who are entertained in the Hospitals of Edinburgh, Memorial touching the 449
Eggs fresh, Receipt for preserving, 276
Errata, xxx
Erskine, Queries for Col., 43
Essay on Moss, and Grass from Grass-seeds sown, 49
Fatting Cattle, Distilling, &c., Directions, Descriptions, &c. relating to Husbandry, Gardening, 262
Feeding a Bullock upon Graft and Hay without housing, Calcul of profit and Loss upon 74
Fencing of Land with Sweet-briar, 140
Filtering, Different Methods of 292
Fisheries and Manufactures, His Majesty's Patent for improving 419
Fisheries and other Manufactures and Improvements, An Act for encouraging and promoting 413
Flanders manner of Sowing Flax, 325
Flax Seed and Sowing, 323Hemp and Flax, Softening, 364
Flax-raisers, Directions to, 322
Fullarton of Gallarie, 140
Garden or broad-leav'd Woad, Directions for propagating, 305
Garden-ground, Directions for preparing 270
Gardening, Fatting Cattle, Distilling, &c., Directions, Descriptions, &c. relating to Husbandry 262
Garden-madder, Directions for propagating, 301
Grant, Queries by Sir Archibald, 20
Great Apple-rose, Directions for propagating, 304
Green, dying Linen-yarn, 369
Halket, Additional Queries by the Colonel, 106
Halket, Queries by Col., 100
Hardening Edge-tools, Receipt for 279
Heckling Flax, 337
Hemp, Directions for propagating and dressing 359
Henbury, Major, 136
His Majesty's Patent for improving Fisheries and Manufactures, 419
Husbandry, Gardening, Fatting Cattle, Distilling, &c., Directions, Descriptions, &c. relating to 262
Hyacinths, Directions for propagating, 266
Improvement of a black Mould above a bastard Marble, and of a sandy Soil of different Colours, 130
Improvement of a Farm of very different Soils, 195
Improvement of a Farm; the upper part, a Sheep-pasture, unequal, stony, and full of Whins; the lower, plowed Ground, the Soil, in some places a good blackish Mould, in others Channel, mixed with Clay; in general a cold Soil, 148
Improvement of a Field; the first Foot good Earth and Sand mixed, and under that, one Foot of blue Clay and Sand, 106
Improvement of a large Field; .the Soil in one Place, a blue Clay; in another, a white Clay; in a third, four Inches of muirish Ground, and below it a yellow Clay, mixed with Sand; and in a fourth, six Inches muirish Earth, with two Feet of Sand and Gravel under it, 106
Improvement of a large Meadow, lying in a level Bottom betwixt Hills, having a small Rivulet running through it, which sometimes overflows; the Soil a brownish Moss for a Foot deep, with sixteen or eighteen Inches of Clay mixed with Sand below, 137
Improvement of a light sandy Soil, over-run with Broom and Whins, 91
Improvement of a Meadow, of various Soils, over-run with Sprets, and fogged, 100
Improvement of a mixed Soil much worn out, another mixed Soil not much worn out, 91
Improvement of a Muir of different Soils, 43
Improvement of a spouty Ground over-run with Rushes, the Soil Clay, inclining to Marl; and a mossy Soil, mixed with Sand, 38
Improvement of a strong Soil; a dry, barren and stubborn Soil, lying high, 38
Improvement of an Island of a light Soil, 32
| Improvement of boggy Ground of different Soils 206
Improvement of Croft-land, 9
Improvement of five Inclosures, of Infield, a kind free Earth; and a Piece of marishy Ground that had been a Loch, 79
Improvement of five Inclosures, of low-lying Ground, of different Soils; part being strong Clay, part Moss, and Part a light and opener Clay, 79
Improvement of Ground, part whereof Meadow, the rest all Heath, or short Heather; full of strong Whins; the Ground pretty strong being Clay, with a Mixture of Sand, 112
Improvement of Locher Moss, Memorial, &c. relating to the 63
Improvement of Moss, 46
Improvement of some moist boggy Land, with strong coarse Grass, 91
Improvement of three Inclosures, two of them a very bad Soil, 199
Improvement of two Inclosures, which bore a short Heath, with sour Grass, and were over-run with Broom or Whins, 117
Improvement, for Grass, of a Muir of a very light Soil; with Sir Alexander Mackenzie's Answer, his Letter to Rankeilor, and Rankeilor's Answer, 245
Improvement, without Dung, of a good free black Mould, 20
Ingraft a common Codlin Apple into a Dutch or English Allar-stock, Directions how to, 271
Ingrafting a Hundred-leaf Pale Rose into a Stock of Broom, Directions for 271
Institution of the Society, and their Resolutions, 3
Iron from rusting, Receipt for keeping278
Kail-seed from burying the Blades in the Earth, Declaration, containing a Description of the Method of raising, 269
Kentish Method of propagating Hops, 236
Kilkerran, Queries by Lord, 9
Killing of Rats that infest Corn-lofts, 140
Lemon Colour, French Yellow, and Aurora, dying Linen-yarn, 367
Letter from Holland concerning the manufacturing of Linen-cloth, 316
Linen and Hempen Manufactures, An Act for better Regulation of the 389
Linen-cloth, A Letter from Holland concerning the manufacturing of, 316
Linen-cloth, Directions for weaving 341
Linen-yarn, Directions for spinning 338
List of the Members of the Society, xviii
Lockhart of Carnwath, 145
Logwood-blue, dying Linen-yarn, 366
Mackenzie, A Letter from Mr. Maxwell to Sir Alexander, concerning the Improvement, for Grass, of a Muir of a very light Soil; with Sir Alexander's Answer, his Letter to Rankeilor, and Rankeilor's Answer, 245
Making Coppers boil with much left than half the fire commonly used, 140
Managing and improving a Farm, Scheme for 213
Manufactures and Fisheries, Proposals concerning the Application of the publick Funds for Encouragement of the 379
Manufactures, An Account of the Society's Endeavours to promote our, with Directions relative thereto, 308
Manuring Ground with Marl, Lime, Water, etc, 185
Marl, Directions for using 265
Members of the Society, xviii
Memorial concerning the Improvement of a Farm of very different Soils, 195
Memorial concerning the Improvement of three Inclosures, two of them a very bad Soil, 199
Memorial presented by Mr. Maxwell to the Society for propagating Christian Knowledge, additional Memorial, and Report of the Society of Improvers in his favours 222
Memorial touching the Education of the Boys and Girls who are entertained in the Hospitals of Edinburgh 449
Grassing Flax, 331
Memorial, &c. relating to the Improvement of Locher Moss, 63
Method of distilling and rectifying Aquavitae, 288
Moss, and Grass from Grass-seeds sown, 49
Note of Approbation, ii
Olive Colour, dying Linen-yarn, 370
Orange Colour, dying Linen-yarn, 367
Original Contents, xiv
Original Title Page, i
Orphan Hospital at Edinburgh, An Account of the 443
Pease Earth-nut Everlasting, Directions for propagating, 307
Perennial or Oriental Canary-grass, Directions for propagating, 305
Pickle to prevent the blasting and Smuttiness of Wheat 262
Planting Potatoes, from a Quaker 154
Planting Potatoes, Observations upon the foregoing Letter, 156
Potashes and Soap, Directions for burning Vegetables, and making 281
Potatoes, and the Cytisus, Another Letter 172
Preparing Drams by Infusion, 290
Preparing of Seed by steeping, with Directions, 145
Propagating and dressing Hemp, Directions for 359
Propagating Hops, The Kentish Method of 236
Propagating Hyacinths, Directions for 266
Propagating St. Foin, The Method of 240
Proposals concerning the Application of the publick Funds for Encouragement of the Manufactures and Fisheries, 379
Pulling Flax, 327
Purple Colour dying Linen-yarn, 369
Queries concerning Distilling, 293
Reay, Letter from Lord, 130
Reay, Queries by Lord Reay, 137
Receipt for Case-hardening, 278
Receipt for destroying Rats, &c., 280
Receipt for hardening Edge-tools, 279
Receipt for keeping Iron from rusting, 278
Receipt for making Cream-cheese, 275
Receipt for preserving Eggs fresh, 276
Receipt for Stall-feeding Black Cattle, 271
Receipts for dying Linen-yarn, 365
Red, dying Linen-yarn, 372
Reverberatory Draw-kill, A Letter from Mr. Robert Scot of Duninauld, Advocate, with a Description of the Kill, 190
Rippling Flax, and winning the Seed 328
Rollo, Queries by Lord, 46
Ross, Queries for Lord, 91
Saffron, Directions for propagating, 303
Scheme for managing and improving a Farm, 213
Scot of Rossie, 32
Scotftarvat's Letter with respect to Sea-ware, 114
Scutching, Flax, 335
Sea-ware, Scotftarvat's Letter with respect to, 114
Seed by steeping, with Directions, 145
Society for propagating Christian Knowledge, Memorial presented by Mr. Maxwell to the, with additional Memorial, and Report of the Society of Improvers in his favours 222
Society, and their Resolutions, 3
Society's Answers, 9, 20, 32, 38, 46, 79, 91, 100, 106, 112, 117, 130, 137, 148, 293
Softening Hemp and Flax, 364
Soil, and Preparation of it, for Flax 322
Sowing of Whins for feeding Cattle, and the burning of Clay, 135
Sowing Whin-seed, and how to use the Whins, Major Henbury's Directions for 136
Spinning Linen-yarn, Directions for 338
St. Foin, The Method of propagating 240
Stall-feeding Black Cattle, Receipt for 271
Swingling flax, 335
Threshing-machine, An account of a 276
To The Reader, xvi
Tull's Method of Improvement, 174
Tull's Reply to an Answer wrote to the foregoing Letter, 180
Watering Flax, 329
Weaving Linen-cloth, Directions for 341
Weeding Flax, 326
Yellow Canvas, dying Linen-yarn, 374
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