CONTENTS, 



ARTICLE. ■ 'page 



XXVII.— On Dairy-Farminp;. By W. T. Carnngton 344 



XXVIII.— Statistics of Live Stock and Dead Meat, &c. By B. Herbert 334 

 XXIX. — Growtli of Lucerne on Thin Light Soils and Chalky Loams .. 359 

 XXX. — Beport on the Exhibition of Live Stock at the BIymouth 



Meeting. By John Dent Dent, M.B., Senioi- Steward .. 3G0 

 XXXI. — General Beport on the Exhibition of Implements at the 

 BIymouth Meeting. By John Coleman and F. A. Baget, 

 C.E., Cor. Mem. of the Franklin Institute, &c., &c 373 



Miscellaneous Commuxications and Xotices: 



1. Experiments with Beruvian Guano mixed witli a small 



quantity of Suli)huric Acid. By J. B. Lawes, F.H.S., F.C.S. 213 



2. Experiments on the Artificial Fecundation of Wheat. B}' 



J. B. Lawes, F.B.S., F.C.S 215 



3. KohlBabi. By Charles Lawrence 219 



4. Comparative Experiment on the Use of Wheat-meal and of 



Linseed-cake for Fatting Sheep. By B. li. Frere 220 



5. Letter on Covered Yards. By H, S. Thompson, M.B 222 



Adstract Beport oe Agricultural Discussions : 



On Town Sewage, By J. B. Lawes "*" 220 



The Breeding and Management of Sheep. By T. l''llmaii . .. 40G 



Natural Deposits of Botash in Germany. By Dr. Voelcker .. ,, 412 



Flax Cnlturc. By Beale Browne 421 



Agricultural Education. By J. Chalmers ^lortou 43() 



Irrigation. B>v Brofessor Voelcker 404 



Typhoid Fever in Bigs. By Dr. W. Budd 472 



APPENDIX. 



PAGE 



List of Officers of the Boyal Agricultural Society of England, 13G5-G6 i, xxix 



Standing Committees for 18G5-6(5 iii, xxxi 



lleport of the Council to the General Meetin'z, December 8, 1804 ,, vi 

 Cash Account and Balance-sheets, from 1st July to December, 31, 18G4 x — xii 



Country Meeting Account, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 18(!4 xiii 



Schedule of Brizes : Devonport and BIymouth Meeting, 18G5 ,, xiv — xxv 



Essays and Bcjiorts — Award for 18G4-G5 xxvi, Ixiii 



Members' Chemical Analysis and Veterinarv Brivileges ,, xxvii, Ixxvii 



Beport of the Council to the General Meeting, May 22, 1805.. .. xxxiii 



Cash Account and l^alauce-slieets, from 1st Jan. to Jmie30, 1805 xxxvi, xxxvii 



Memoranda of Meetingj, Baymeut of Subscription, I'tc xxxviii 



List of Stewards, Judges, &-C., at the BIymouth Meeting ., .. xxxix 



Award of Brizes : Devonport and Plymouth Meeting, i8(;5 .. .. Ix — Ixxii 

 Prizes for Essays and Beports for 18G0 ., ,. Ixxiv 



General Index, Vols. I. — XXV. 



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