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RMBR'8 SIACIAZIMK 



NOVEMBER, 1857. 



C O N T E N T S. 



Plate I.— A SHORT-HORN COW, 



THE PROPERTY OF MK. RICHARD STRATTON, OF BROAD HINTON, SWINDON. 



Plate II. — WARLOCK; a Thoroughbred Entire Horse. 



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Farm-yard Manure. — By Cuthbert W. Johnson, Esa., F.R.S. . . . 376 



Construction and Maintenance of Farm Roads, with special reference to Clay 



Lands ......... 3/9 



Impediments to the advance of Agriculture in France . . . 382 



Notes on Novelties at the Agricultural Shows of 1857. — By Robert Scott Burn 383 

 Dairy' Management. — By Thomas Horsfall ..... 391' 



Autumn Meetings of 1857 ....... 398 



Bedfordshire Agricultural Society.— Meeting at Leighton Buzzard . . 399 



Rickmansworth Agricultural Society ..... 401 



Presentation of the Mechi Testimonial ..... 402 



The Present and the Past of the Implements of Agriculture . . . 405 



Patented Inventions relating to Agriculture. — "The Mechanism of Steam 



Culture "........ 407 



Gradual Development and Perfection of the Plough . . . 412 



A Landlord on Tenant-right ...... 413 



Rutland Ploughing Meeting ...... 414 



Profits realized by the Exportation of Breeding Stock to the United States 417 

 Sketches of British India ....... 418 



Stable Manures— THEIR Treatment, &c. ..... 420 



Results of the Harvest, and the Prospects of the Corn Trade . . 421 



A Day at Warlaby ........ 424 



Testimonial to Walter Johnson, Esq. ..... 425 



Improved Cottages for Labourers ...... 426 



South-west Middlesex Agricultural Society. — Meeting at Acton . . 429 



Long Sutton Agricultural Association. — Steam-Ploughing . . . 431 



Cattle Disease ........ 434 



Bridgnorth Agricultural Association — Report of the Judges . . . 435 



Scottish Arboricultural Society ...... 436 



The Wheat Plant. — Chidham Wheat ...... 437 



Dr. Voelcker on Farm-yard Manure ...... 438 



A plain Farmer's Views on the new things in Agriculture.— Steam Cultivation 439 

 The Steam-plough at Stirling ...... 440 



A General view of Agricultural matters ; Sale of Corn by one common Scale; 



Agricultural Statistics, &c., &c. ...... 441 



Witham Agricultural Society ...... 442 



Road Reform ........ 444 



Lincolnshire Rams ......•> 446 



Laying Farm-yard Dung on Clay Fallows for Wheat .... 447 



The Sickle, THE Scythe, AND the Reaping Machine . . • • 448 



Practical remarks and hints on Irish Agriculture. — By a Practical Farmer . 449 

 A Prize Tenant. — His Rights and Wrongs ..... 450 



Review :— " Is Killing Murder?" a Key to the Adulteration of our daily Food 452 

 Professor Way — Electric Light ...... 453 



Educate your Farmers' Sons, and improve the condition of the LabouringClasses 454 

 Practical testimony to the value of the Steam-plough . . . 454 



Science and the Farmer ....... 455 



An extraordinary Rutland Ram of Lincolnshire Breed . . • 456 



Calendar of Agriculture ....••• 458 



Ballinasloe Great Autumn Fair ...... 458 



Agricultural Reports ....... 459 



Review of the Cattle Trade during the past Month . . • 460 



Agricultural Intelligence, Fairs, &c. . . . « • 461 



Review of the Corn Trade ....••• *64 



Corn Averages and Market Currencies . . . • 466-8 



