CONTENTS. V 



Miscellaneous Communications and Notices : — 



ARTICLE PAGE 



I. — Application of Blue Shale to the Surface of Land . .161 



II. — Improved Dibbling-Wheel . . . . . .163 



III.— On the Application of different Manures as a Substitute 



for Bones in the Growth of Turnips .... 164 



IV. — On the Drainage of Land ...... 165 



V. — Account of Experiments on the Growth of Swedes . . 423 



VI. — On the Application of Clay to Moor-Land . . . 427 

 VII.— Simple and Effectual Method of destroying Rats and 



Mice 



VIIL- On the Use of Lime .... 



IX.— On the Feeding of Stock 



X. — On the Chemical Constituents of Crops 



XI. — On the Quantity of Minute Ingredients of Soil contained 

 in an Acre of Land 



XII. — Experiments with Guano 



XIII. — New and Economical Oil-cake 



428 

 429 

 430 

 433 



434 

 437 

 439 



APPENDIX: 



Council and Officers of the Royal AgricuUural Society of England . i 



Prizes for the Meeting at Bristol iii 



General Regulations for Exhibition at the Meeting at Bristol . . vii 



Prizes and Conditions for Essays and Reports on various Subjects . ix 



Rules of Competition for Prize Essays for 1843 .... xiii 



Council and Officers of the Royal Agricultural Society of England . xv 



Honorary Members ........ xvi 



Report of the Council to the Anniversary Meeting . . . xvii 



General Meetings of 1842-3 ....... xxiii 



Statement of Accounts from July to December, 1841 . . . xxiv 



Award of Prizes at the Meeting at Bristol ..... xxv 



Prizes for the Meeting at Derby ...... xxxii 



Prizes and Conditions for Essays and Reports on various Subjects . xxxvi 



LIST OF PLATES. 



Plate L (C) to face page . . . . . . . ,77 



IL (D) „ 78 



HI. (E) „ 321 



IV. (F) „ 322 



