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CONTENTS OF VOL. I.— Second Series. 



Statistics : — page ^ 



Meteorology, for the six months ending Docembei- 31, lSC-1 .. i 

 Public Health ditto ditto .. .. v 



Price of Provisions ditto ditto .. .. vir 



AVeekly Average Price of Wlieat via 



Vital Statistics for the six nionths ending June oO, ISfJG .. .. ix; 

 Meteorology ditto ditto .. .. xii 

 British AVlieat sold, and Imports of Corn, &c. ditto .. .. xv 

 Price of Provisions ditto .. .. xvi\ 

 Pauperism xviii 



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I.— Eoyal Agricultural College of Cirencester. P>y C, Lawrekck 1 

 11.— On Breaking up Pastures. By C. Belcher. Prize Essay .. 10 

 III. — On the Planting, liaising, and After-Management of Orchards, 

 and their Various Kinds of Fruits, for Culinary and other 

 \!scs, considered as jMarketable Productions of a Farm 

 adapted to the Counties of Worcester, Hereford, and Glou- 

 cester. By Clement Cadle. Worcester Prize Essay .. .. 18 

 r^. — Observations on Parasites aud Parasitic Diseases as affecting 

 Domesticated Animals. By James Beart Simonds, Professor 



of Cattle Pathology, Pioyal Veterinary College o'3 



V. — Lois-Weedon Wheat-Growing with Horse (or Steam) Tillage. 



By John Algernon Clarke 'iS 



VI. — Covered Cattle-yards. By W. J. Moscrop SS 



VII.— Tea Years of East Lothian Farming. By R. Scot Skirving 90 

 ' VIII. — Causes of Unproductiveness in Soils. By Dr. Voclckcr .. 113 



IX. — On Stockipg Land. By the llev. J. L. Brereton 130 



X. — Professor Voelcker's Annual Report 1-il 



XT. — On Cross-Dreeding in Horses. By W^. C. Spooncr .. .. 148 



XII. — IJeport on the Royal Veterinary College ]'j6 



XIII.— Statistics of I-ive Stock and Dead Meat for Consumption in 



the Metropolis. By Robert Herbert 1~2 



Xn\ — On the Composition and Nutritive Value of Palm-nut Kernel 



Meal aud Cake. By Dr. Voelcker 1"G- 



XV. — On the Cultivation and Proper Management of Flax. By the 



Rev. Nathaniel M. Brown. Prize Essay IBl 



XVT.— Flax-Cultivation in the County of Suffolk. By H. Wells .. 194 

 XVII. — Remarks on the General Aspects of Flax-Culture in England 



and Ireland. By P. H. Frere 197 



XVIII. — A Description of the Newcastle Dynamometer. By C. E. Amos 204: 

 X!X. — 'I'hc ^Tanagement of Sheep Stock on Heavy and Light Land. 



By John Coleman. Prize Essay 239 



XX. — The Reproductive Powers of Domesticated Animals. By 

 Henry Tanner, jNI.R.A.C, Professor of Pairal Economy, 



Queen's College, Birmingham 2G2 



XXL— Water-Supply. By the liev. J. Clutterbuck. Prize Essay 271 

 XXII. — On a New Form of Disease among Lambs. By R. S. Rey- 

 nolds, M.R.C.V.S.Eng., Alfreton, Derbyshire 288 



XXIII.— Functions of Soda-Salts in Agriculture. By Dr. Voelcker .. 298 

 XXIV. — Rise and Progress of Shorthorns. By H. H. Dixon. Prize Essay 317 



XXV.— On Sheep. By H. Evershed 329 



XXVI. — The Comparative Profit from Making Cheese or Butter, Selling 



Milk, or Grazing. By W. H. Heywood. Prize Essay .. 338 



