CONTENTS OF PART I., VOL. XIX. 



Statistics : — page 



Meteorology, for the six months ending June 30, 1858 .. .. ii 



Public Health ditto ditto vi 



Price of Provisions ditto ditto vi 



Weekly Average of Wheat viii 



ARTICLE PAGE 



I. — The Agriculture of Shropshire. By Henry Tanner. Prize 



Report 1 



II. — The Potato : its Culture, Production, and Disease. By 



J. Lang, M.D. Prize Essay 65 



III. — Observations on the Anatomy and Physiology of the Mam- 

 mary Gland of the Cow, with the Causes influencing the 

 amount of its Secretion. By James Beart Simonds, Pro- 

 fessor of Cattle Pathology at the Pioyal Veterinary College .. 81 



IV. — On the Transformation of ^Egilops into Wheat. By Pro- 

 fessor Henfrey 103 



V. — Farm Accounts. By John Coleman, Professor of Agricul- 

 ture, Eoyal Agricultural College, Cirencester .. r.. .. 122 



VI. — On the Management of Breeding Cattle. By Edward Bowly. 



Prize Essay 143 



VII. — Experiments upon Swedes, with Eemarks on the Manures 



employed. By Augustus Voelcker 153 



VIII. — Notes on the Wealden Clay of Sussex and on its Cultivation. 



BySidayHawes 182 



IX. — Observations on the recently-introduced Manufactured Foods 



for Agricultural Stock. By J. B. Lawes, F.R.S 199 



X. — Manuring Grass Lands. By J. Dixon. Prize Essay . . . . 204 



XL— On the Manuring of Grass Land. By the Rev. AV. R. 



Bowditch 219 



XII. — On laying down Land to Grass, and its subsequent manage- 

 ment. By H. S. Thompson 250 



APPENDIX. 



List of Officers of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1858-9 .. i 



Memoranda of Meetings, Privileges, Payment of Subscription, &c. .. ii 



Report of the Council to the General Meciting, May 22, 1858 .. .. iii 



Half-yearly Balance-sheet, ending December 31, 1857 vi 



Schedule of Prizes for Essays and Iteports vii 



Members' Privileges of Chemical Analysis xi 



Members' Veterinary Privileges xii 



