CONTENTS OF VOL. XVIL . 



ARTICLE PAGE 



I.— Statistics of the Corn Trade, 1828-1855 2 



II, — Ecport on the Agricultural Department of the Paris Exhibition 

 of 1855. By J. Evelyn Denison, M.P., Vice-rresident of 

 the Jury for Class III., Aj^riculturc 33 



III. — Elementary Introduction to the subject of Vegetable Physio- 

 logy. Py Artliur H(!nfrey, F.P.S., F.L.S., Professor of 

 Botany, King's College, London, &c 62 



IV. — A Report upon the Agriculture of the County of Durham. By 



Thomas George Bell, LL.D. Prize Report 86 



V. — On the Composition of the Waters of Land-Drainage and of 

 Rain. By J. Tlnnnas Way, Consulting Chemist to the So- 

 ciety 123 



VI. — On the Natural History of British Meadow and I'asture 

 Grasses. By James Buckman, F.G.S., F.L.S., Professor of 

 Geology and Botany in the Royal Agricultural College . . . . 162 



VII.— On the Roots of the Wheat Plant. By James Buckman, 

 F.G.S., F.L.S., Professor of Geology and Botany in the 

 Royal Agricultural College. Prize Essay 172 



VIII. — On the Com])osition of Farmyard Manure, and the Changes 

 which it undergoes on keeping under diU'erent Circumstances. 

 By Dr. Augustus Vcjclcker, F.C.S., Professor of Chemistry in 

 the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester 191 



IX.— Management of Dairy Cattle. 1854 to 185G. P>y T. Uorsfall 260 



X. — On some points in Agricultural Chemistry, liy Justus von 



Liebig 284 



XI. — Bringing Moorland into Cultivation. By Robert Smith, 



Emmett's Grange, Exmoor. Prize Essay 349 



XIL— The Agricultural Meeting at Paris of 1856. By J. Evelyn 



Denison, M.P 394 



XIII. — Manure for Mangold- wurzel. By James Caird 400 



XIV. — On the Cultivation of Mangold- wurtzcl. By Cliarlos Paget .. 403 



XV. — Action of the Atmosplicn; upon newly-deepened Soil. By 



Thomas F. Janiieson, Ellon, Aberdeensliire. Prize Essay .. 407 



XVI. — Farming of Warwickshire. By Henry Evershed, Gosfield, 



Essex. Prize Essay 475 



XVII. — On the Construction of Labourers' Cottages. By T. W. P. 



Isaac, Terrace Walks, Bath. Prize Essay 494 



XVFII. — The Natural History of British Meadow and Pasture Grassc^s. 

 r>y James Buckman, F.G.S., F.Ij.S., I'rofcssor of (ieology 

 and Jiotany in tiio Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester .. 513 



XIX. — On the different Mechanical Modes of Deepening the Staple 

 Soil, in order to give it the full l)ene(it of Atmospheric Intiu- 

 ence. By I'eter Love, late of Manor Fariri, Naseby, North- 

 amptonshire 543 



XX. — Re]iort on the Exhibition of Slieep and Pigs at the ('helms- 

 ford Meeting of the Society, 1856 563 



XXI. — Re|)ort on the Exhibition and Trial of Implomont-s at tlic 



Chelmsford Meeting. By Wiilinm G. Cavendish ., .. 564 



