THE FARMER'S 



OCTOBER, 1857 



ACIAZINE, 



CONTENTS. 



Plate I. — BRITAIN ; a Clydesdale Stallion, 



THE PROPERTY OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CONSORT, 



Plate II.— SHROPSHIRE DOWN WETHERS, 



THE PROPERTY OF MR. HENRY SMITH, JUN., OF SUTTON MADDOCK, SHIFFNAL. 



Highland Pastures. — By Cuthbert W, Johnson, Esq., F.R.S. 



Autumnal Cultivation — as a means for good Farming 



Review of the " Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England " 



Sparkenhoe Farmer's Club. — Meeting at Nuneaton 



Sewage of the Metropolis. — By an Old Norfolk Farmer 



Agricultural Statistics of the United States 



Economy in Bread. — By I. Prideaux 



Northampton Agricultural Show 



Royal National Life-boat Institution 



Autumnal Fallowing of Land 



Education of the Farmer viewed in connection with that of the Middle 



Classes in General : its Objects, Ppinciples, and Cost 

 Land. — By an Old Norfolk Farmer 



Shropshire Sheep ..... 

 Decimal Question and the House of Commons' Committee 

 Fibrous Hemps and Grasses of the East Indies 

 Patented Inventions relating to Agriculture 



Is IT profitable to apply Portable Manure as Top-dressings to Cereal Crops? 

 Merinos at the Universal Exhibition (French) of 1856 



Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Society. — Meeting at Warrington 

 Manure Heaps .... 



Important to Farmers — Landlord and Tenant 

 Meeting of the Breeders of Down Cotswold Sheep 

 Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, 



Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce 



ses as a general Article of Com 



by Professor Henfrey. 



owns 



Chemical Properties of the Potato, and its u 



merce when properly manipulated 

 Award of the Duke of Northumberland's Farm Premiums 

 The Insect Pests 

 Thick and Thin Sowing 



Boydell's Traction Engine. — The Louth Trial 

 Durham County Agricultural Show . 

 Review : — An Elementary Course of Botany 



Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland. — Meeting at Waterford 

 The Trial Fields at Waterford 

 Hailstorm Insurance — the recent Damages 

 A New Breed of Sheep — "the Oxfordshire" D 

 Assimilation of Nitrogen by Plants . 

 Dairy Management. — By Thomas Horsfall 

 Kyloe Cattle 

 Cattle Murrain 

 The Black Palmer Caterpillar 

 Wayland Agricultural Association . 

 Glamorganshire Agricultural Association 

 Chester Agricultural Society 

 Farmers' Income Tax 



A New Breed of Sheep. — By Samuel Arnsby 

 High Farming not Suitable to some Localities 

 Calendar of Agriculture 

 Agricultural Reports 



Review of the Cattle Trade during the past 

 Review op the Corn Trade , 

 Corn Averages and Market Currencies 



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