CONTENTS OF PART I., YOL. I. 



Second Series. 



Statistics : — pagk 



Meteorology, for the six months ending December 31, 18G4 .. ii 

 rublic Health ditto ditto .. .. VI 

 Price of Provisions ditto ditto .. .. vil 

 Weekly Average Price of Wheat viii 



AETICLE PAGE 



I. — The Pioyal Agricultural College of Cirencester. By C. 



Lawrence 1 



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



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

 and their Various Kinds of Fruits, for Culinary and other 

 uses, considered as Marketable Productions of a Farm 

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

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



IV. — Observations on Parasites and Parasitic Diseases as affecting 

 Domesticated Animals. By James Heart Simonds, Professor 

 of Cattle Pathology, Pioyal Veterinary College 33 



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



By John Algernon Clarke 73 



VL— Covered Cattle-yards. By W. J. Moscrop 88 



VII. — Ten Years of East Lothian Farming. By R. Scot Skirving 99 



VIII. — On some Causes of Unproductiveness in Soils. By Dr. Au- 

 gustus Voelcker 113 



IX.— On Stocking Laud. By the Eev. J. L. Brereton 130 



X. — Professor Voelcker's Annual Report 141 



XI. — On Cross-Breeding in Horses. By W. C. Spooner ... .. 148 



XII. — Report on the Royal Veterinary College 1G6 



XIII. — Statistics of liive Stock and Dead Meat for Consumption in 



the Metropolis. By Robert Herbert 172 



XIV. — On the Composition and Nutritive Value of Palm-nut Kernel 



Meal and Cake. By Dr. Augustus Voelcker 176 



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



Rev. Nathaniel M. Brown. Prize Essay 181 



XVI.— Flax-Cultivation in the County of Suffolk. By II. 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 



