CONTENTS OF PART I., VOL. XVIL 



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



II. — Eeport on the Agricultural Department of the Paris Exhibition. 

 By J. Evelyn Denison, M.P., Vice-President of the Jury for 

 Class lU., Agriculture 33 



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

 logy. By Arthur Henfrey, F.R.S., F.L.S., Professor of 

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



IV. — A Report upon the Agi'iculture of the County of Durham. By 



Thomas George Bell, LL.D. Prize Eeport 86 



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

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

 ciety \ 123 



VI. — On the Natural History of British Meadow and Pasture 

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

 Geology and Botany in the Royal Agiicultural 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 Composition of Farmyard Manure, and the Changes 

 which it undergoes on keeping under different Circumstances. 

 P>y Dr. Augustus Voelcker, F.C.S., Professor of Chemistry in 

 the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester 191 



IX.— Management of Dairy Cattle. 1854 to 1856. By T. Horsfall 260 



X. — On some jioints in Agricultural Chemistry. By Justus von 



I^iebig 284 



Miscellaneous Commttnicatioxs and Xotices : — 



I. — On ' Ridge-and-Furrow' Pasture Land, and a method of levelling 



it. By C. Wren Iloskyns 327 



II. — Contagious Disease among Cattle in Mecklenburg 331 



III. — German Wool Fairs, Midsummer, 1856 335 



IV.— LTse of Reaping Machines. By Anthony Ham ond 339 



^^' — Use of Reaping Machines. By Thomas Parringtoii .. .. 341 



VI. — Experiments in Cattle-feeding. By E. W. Moore 342 



Appendix. 



