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1. The Agriculture of the Counties of Elgin and Nairn. 



By Alexander Macdonald, ..... I 



2. Town Sewage, and its Application to Agriculture. By 



David Robie, ....... 124 



3. The Agriculture of the County of Stirling. By James 



Tait, ........ 143 



4. Application of Town Sewage in Agriculture, and the 



Effect of the Herbage on the Animal System. By 

 James Barr, Junior, . . . . . .180 



5. The Old and Remarkable Horse Chestnut Trees in Scot- 



land. By Robert Hutchison, . . . .184 



6 The Old and Remarkable Walnut Trees in Scotland. By 



Robert Hutchison, . . . . . .196 



7. The Blackfaced Breed of Sheep. By Alexander Mac- 



donald, ........ 208 



8. The Blackfaced Breed of Sheep. By David Archibald, . 228 



9. Account of the Show of the Highland and Agricultural 



Society held at Inverness in 1883, . . . 241 



10. The Natural and Artificial Food of Scotch Hill Sheep — 



Part I. By Professor Wallace, . . . .250 



Part II. By Professor Kinch, .... 273 



11. Experiment for ascertaining the Actual Addition of 



Weight to Fattening Stock by the use of different 

 Kinds of Food. Bv John Milne, .... 280 



12. Trees to be kept as Standards in cutting down Planta- 



tions. By John B. Webster, .... 290 



13. Louping-Ill and Braxy — 



Report by Committee, ..... 300 



Notes on Ixodes (Ticks). By Tlios. D. Giljson Carmichael, 301 

 Note on Braxy. By Professor Williams, . . . 303 



14. Experiments on Turnips. By David Wilson, Junior, . 304 



15. The Cereal and other Crops of Scotland for 1883, and 



Meteorology of the Year relative thereto— 



The Crops, ....... 325 



Meteorolo{^y, ...... 345 



IG. Agricultural Statistics — 



Table No. 1. Total Acreafro under each kind of Crop in each 



County of Scotland, 5th June 1883, . . . 352 



Table No. 2, Number o( H(trses, Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs in 



each County of Scotland, 5th June 1883, . . . 353 



