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CONTENTS OF VOLUME X. 



Second Series. 



Statistics :— page 



Meteorology for the year 1873 i-viii 



Imports of Corn, &c., British Wheat sold, and Average Prices ix-xiii 

 Importations and Average Prices of certain Foreign and 



Colonial Productions xiv 



Acreage under each description of Crop, Fallow, and Grass ; 



with number of Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs in Great Britain 



and Ireland, 1871, 1872, and 1873 xvi, xvn 



Xumber of Men returned as Agricultural Labourers, &c., at 



the Censuses of 1851, 1861, and 1871 xvm 



Statistics of Dairy Produce, and Prices Current xix-xxiv 



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I. — Pieport upon the Agricultural Features of the Vienna Exhibition, 

 1873. By John Wrightson, Professor of Agriculture in the 

 Eoyal Agricultural College, Cirencester 1 



11. — Pieport on Spring-sown Wheats in 1873. By John Chalmers 



Morton 81 



III. — On the Composition of Waters of Land-Drainage. By Dr. 

 Augustus Voelcker, F.R.S., F.C.S., Consulting Chemist to 

 the Royal Agricultural Society 132 



IV. — An Experiment in Pig-Feeding. By C. G. Roberts, of Hasle- 



mere, Surrey 166 



V.^The Influence of the Wet Season of 1872 on Steam-Cultivation. 



By C. G. Roberts, of Haslemere, Surrey 173 



VI. — On Concrete as a Building Material for Farm Buildings and 

 Cottages. By George Hunt, of Evesham, Architect and Sur- 

 f^^ veyor to the Royal Agricultural Society 211 



VII. — Report on the Contagious and Infectious Diseases of Animals, 

 referred to in the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869, 

 especially with respect to their degree of prevalence in 1872. 

 By Professor G. T. Brown, Chief Inspector of the Veterinary 

 Department 232 



^ VIII. — Report on the Farm Prize Competition, 1873. By Hugh 



Stephenson, of Dene House, Newcastle-on-Tyne 246 



IX. — Report on the Parasitic Lung Disease of Lambs. By Professor 



J, B. Simonds, Principal of the Royal Veterinary College .. 265 



X. — Report on the Health of Animals of the Farm. By Professor 



J. B. Simonds 269 



XI. — Annual Report of the Consulting Chemist for 1873 277 





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