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16. Agricultural Statistics — continued. 



Table No, 3. Quantities and Values ol" the Imports of Live 



Cattle, Sheep, and Swine, 1878 to 1882, . . .354 



Table No. 4. Quantities and Values of the Imports of Beef 



and Pork (salted), Bacon, and Hams, &c., 1878 to 1882, . 354 



Table No. 5. Quantities and Values of the Imports of "Wheat 



and Wheat Flour, 1878 to 1882, . . . . 355 



Table No. 6. Quantities and Values of the Imports of Barley, 



Oats, Eye, Meal, and Malt, 1878 to 1882, . . .355 



Table No. 7. Average Prices of various kinds of Animals, 



Dead Meat, and Provisions, 1878 to 1882, . . .356 



Table No. 8. Average Prices of Wool in each of the Years 



from 1863 to 1882, . . . . . .356 



Table No. 9. Average Prices (per imperial quarter) of Home- 

 grown Wheat, Barlev, and Oats, in the Weekly Market of 

 Edinburgh, for the Years 1879 to 1883, . . .357 



17. Chemical Department — Report for 1883. By Dr A. P. 



AiTKEN, Chemist to the Society — 



Experimental Stations, ..... 358 



Analytical Associations, ..... 395 



Ensilage, ....... 404 



Practical Method of Testing Soils, .... 414 



APPENDIX (A). 



Proceedings of the Highland and Agricultural Society — 



Proceedings at Board Meetings, February 1883 to January 1884, 1 



Proceedings at General Meeting, 20th June 1883, . . 10 



Proceedings at General Meeting at Inverness, 25th July 1883, 15 



Proceedings at General Meeting, 16th January 1884, . . 16 

 Ensilage Experiments at Portmore, . . . .24 



Premiums awarded by the Society in 1883-1884, . . 26 



State of the Funds of the Society at 30th November 1883, . 55 



Abstract of the Accounts of the Society for 1882-83, . . 56 



Abstract of the Accounts of the Inverness Show, 1883, . '58 



Abstract of the Accounts of the Argyll Naval Fund, 1882-83, 58 



View of the Income and Expenditure for the Year 1882-1883, 60 



APPENDIX (B). 



Premiums offered by the Highland and Agricultural Society 

 IN 1884. 



