CONTENTS OF YOL. III. 



Second Seeies. 



Statistics : — tag3 



Vital Statistics for the year 1866 



Meteorolofjy for the six months ending December 31, 1866 .. n 



Price of Provisions — Pauperism ditto .. vi 



Emigration for the six months ending December 31, 1866 .. vi 

 Imports of Corn, &c. ditto ditto ..vii, viii 



British Wheat sold, and Average Prices viii, ix 



Statute Acres under Crops, Grass, &c.; Number of Cattle 



and Sheep ^^ 



Vital Statistics for the six months ending June 30, 1867 .. xi 



Increase of Population ; Emigration xii 



Meteorology ^^^^ 



Food, Prices — Importations of Grain s.vi 



Sales of British Wheat x.viii 



Prices of Corn, &c xviii 



Pauperism ^^ 



RETICLE ,,..., o- 1 ^^^^ 



I.— The Use, to the Farmer, of a Magnifymg-glass or Simple 

 Microscope. By W. Kencely Bridgman, L.D.S., E.C.S., 



Eng. Prize Essay 1 



n.— On the Changes which take place in the Field and in the 



Stack in Haymaking. By Dr. Augustus Voelcker .. .. ^^0 

 III.—Rinderpest Precautions and Remedies. By Henry H. Dixon 59 

 IV.— Rainfall, Water Supply, and Storage. By Professor Ansted. 



Paj.^; J J 65 



Y. Field Experiments of Crude German Potash-salts and Common 



Salt on Mangolds, By Dr. Augustus Voelcker 86 



VI.— Statistics of Live Stock and Dead Meat for Consumption in 



the Metropolis. By Robert Herbert .. •• 91 



VII. Reports of the Committees appointed to investigate the 



present state of Steam Cultivation : — 



Report of the Inspection Committee No. 1 (Reed) .. .. 97 

 Report of the Inspection Committee No. 2 (Clarke) .. 198 

 Report of the Supplementary Committee (Coleman) .. 373 

 VIII.— Address of the President to the General Meeting, held 



W^ December 12, 1866 428 



'y^ IX.— The Agriculture of Worcestershire, By Clement Cadle. 



••— Prize Essay j^^ 



£>_ X. — Town Sewage 4*^^ 



XI— Affections of the Bladder amongst fattening Sheep and 



^ Lambs. By W. E. Litt, M.R.C.V.S. .. : 495 



CC XIT.— Field Experiments on Root-Crops. By Dr. Augustus Voelcker 500 



"*^ XIII.— On the Rearing and Management of Poultry on an ordinary 



^ Farm. By Mrs. F. Somerville. Prize Essay 520 



XIV.— Feeding Turkeys, Geese, and Ducks for the London Market. 



By Henry H. Dixon ^32 



XV.— Extracts from the Report on the Agricultural Exhibition at 

 Aarhuus (Denmark). By John Wilson, Professor of Agri- 

 culture in the University of Edinburgh 536 



