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UBRARY 

 NEW YORK 



BOTANJCAL 

 GARDEN 



GENERAL ARTICLES. 



Long Leases and Tenant-right 



The Duke of St Albans on the Agricultural La- 

 bourer 



Professor Fawcett on Agricultural Labour 



Boards of Agriculture 



The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution ... 



An American View of English Farming 



Statute Hiring, or Hiring Fairs 



How to Increase our Meat Supphes 



Irish Absenteeism — Past and Present 



The Irish Land Act and the Lords Committee ... 



Professor Rogers and the Land Laws 



The Cost and Evils of Ground Game 



Local Taxation 



Housing and Education of Agricultural Labourers 



The Farm Servants in the North of Scotland 



Texas as a Field for Emigration 



Jonathan and Simpson : or Meal and Milk 



The Royal Agricultural Society and Libel 



A Peep at Scotland 



Veterinaiy Department & Foot-and-Mouth Disease 



The Accommodation of Agricultural Labourers in 

 the North 



Agriculture in Australia 



Agricultural Leases and Land-Tenure 



Another Successful Sewage Farm ... 



Legislation and the High Price of Meat 



The Price of Meat and Restrictions on the Cattle 

 Trade ... 



Warriors in the Harvest Field 



The Agricultural Labourer in the Seventeenth 

 Century 



A Whig Speaker on Farming 



The Work of the French Peasant Farmers' Seed 

 Fund 



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Co-Operative Farming 



The Great Meat Question 



How to Increase our Food Supplies 



Dr Jtaith on Condensed Milk and Preserved Meat 



Agricultural Strikes 



Rural Cottages ... 

 Horses and Horsemen 



Stray Notes from the South of Ireland 



Earl Derby on Labour and Wages ... 



Vienna Universal Exhibition, 1873 



Irish Tenant-Farmers and their Labourers 



The Irish Land Act 



Irish Agricultural Statistics 



The Agricultural Labourer and his Friends 



Lord Carnarvon on the Agricultural Labourer ... 



Lord Napier on the Land Laws 



Sir John Bowring on the Agricultural Labourer ... 



Agriculture and Agriculturists 



Disastrous Harvests ... 



The Proper Way to do it 



Sanitary Improvements in the Rural Districts 



The Transfer of Land 



Lord Derby on Land, Labour, and Game 



Lord Porfman on Wages and Unions 



Impediments to Veterinary Science in Great Britain 



Landlord, Tenant, and Labourer 



Damage by Game and Rabbits 

 Agricultural Piece-Work and Cattle Disease Legis- 

 lation 



German Agricultural Labourers 



Compensation for Unexhausted Improvements ... 



Fashionable Animals and Fancy Prices 



Minnesota as a Field for Farmers 



Ransome's Artificial Stone 



Festuca Heterophylla 



OUR PASTURE GRASSES. 



THE FARM. 



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Import and Export of Agricultural Commodities 



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 Tiptree Hall Farm 

 Finger-and-Toe in Turnips ... 

 Sugar-Beet Cultivation in England... . . 

 Beet-Sugar Cultivation in the United States 

 The Improvement of Pasture Land in Wales 

 Diseases in Turnips ... 

 Breeding of Agricultural Horses 

 The Best Manures for Potatoes 

 The Hedgerowism of the United Kingdom 



The Turnip Beetle and Crops 



Pasturing •:'. Soiling ... 

 Farming in Suffolk 

 Steam Culture and Clay Soils 

 The Chili Saltpetre Deposits of Peru 

 Agricultural Notes 



Impediments to Agricultural Progress 

 ■Concrete Buildings on the Farm 

 Farm Competition in England 

 The Allotment System 

 Price of Lamb ... 



Modern Farming and the Breeding of Stock 

 Breeding and Rearing Sussex Stock 

 Oil-Cake Manufacture 

 The Supply of Chemical Fertilizers ... 

 Steam Cultivation on Fisken's System 

 Our Common Lands ... 

 Carrots ... 



The Potato Disease and its Cause ... 

 Transit of Cattle by Rail 

 Agricultural Progress in Ireland 

 Earl Spencer on Irish Agriculture 



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Bishop EUicott and the Agricultural Labourer . 



Wheat Culture 



Wildcats 



An Estimate of the Crops 



The Potato Blight 



Irrigating Pasture Land 



The Waresley Stud Farm 



The Dunmore Shorthorns 



Cattle in the United States 



The Cost of Producing Live Stock 



Agricultural Matters in Italy 



Compensating a Retiring Tenant 



The Purification and Utilization of Sewage 

 Prickly Comfrey as a Fodder Plant 



Horn and Corn 



Breed of Horses in Ireland 



West Highland Cattle 



Farms and Cottages in Cheshire 



Improvement of Waste Land in Sutherlandshire 



Capital applied to Agriculture 



Something about Deer Forests 



Sewage Irrigation at Bishop's Stortford ... 



The Potato Disease 



The Subsoil as Manure 



Flax Culture in Ireland and its Lessons ... 



Harvesting and Cleaning Seed 



The Ashford Herd of Shorthorns 



Lord Saltoun on Steam Cultivation 



Reclaiming Mountain Land 



A new Sewage Experiment 



Sewage— Filtration and Irrigation 



Italian Agriculture 



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