Alleged Poisoning of Cattle by Soy bean Meal .... Page 440 



Nutritive Value of Straw 440 



H. GAMBLE, Food Stuffs and their Deterioration 440 



XXXVI Special Stock-breeding. Meat. Wool. 



ROBERT WALLACE, Riding Horses, Carriage Horses and Ponies 440 



The General Purpose Horse 452 



The Traffic in Decrepit Horses to the Continent 452 



Exportation of Horses to Belgium or the Netherlands .... 452 



H. W. PERCY, Sulphur Poisoning in Horses 452 



Beef Breeds of Cattle 452 



THOS Me Row, Cattle at the Gloucester Show 1909 475 



The Shorthorn Society 476 



Birmingham Shorthorns Show and Sale 476 



High Prices for Shorthorns at Perth 476 



Channel Islands and Shorthorn Breeds, Crossing Jersey and Guer- 



nesey Cows 476 



J. MACDONALD and J. SINCLAIR, History of Hereford Cattle . . 477 



J. WILSON, The Evolution of a Breed of Cattle ...... 477 



ERNEST MATHEWS, Jersey Cattle 477 



ROBERT WALLACE, British Breeds of Sheep 479 



Increase in Sheep Exports, in 1909. , 500 



Caution to Flockowners in regard to the Dipping of Sheep . . 500 



Prescriptions for Sheep-Dips 501 



Goats : Breeding Society, Shows and Prices 502 



BELLINGHAM, Disastrous Year forjSheep Farmers in Northumber- 

 land. Rise in the Prjces of Cheviot Wool 502 



How Wool is prepared for Market in Great Britain 503 



A. M. WRIGHT, Absorption of Atmospheric Moisture by Wools. 503 



R. H. REW, Importation of Wool in Great Britain, in 1909 . . 504 



A. E. INGRAM, Trouble caused by Vegetable Fibres in Wool . 505 



REGENT, The World's Wool Clip 505 



ROBERT WALLACE, British Breeds of Pigs 510 



R. H. REW, Number of Breeding Sows in Great Britain, 1900 to 



J 9Q9 515 



Suggestions for Pig- Feeders 515 



W. J. COLEBATCH, Lincolnshire Curly-Coated or Boston Pigs. . 516 

 Pig feeding experiments in Scotland. Swine Husbandry in the 



United Kingdom and Denmark. . 517 



W. A. HENRY, Feeding Pigs before and immediately after Weaning 518 

 Pig Feeding Experiments in Wiltshire. Swine Husbandry in the 



United Kingdom and Denmark , . . 520 



LONDON M. DOUGLAS, Bacon-curing in Scotland 522 



TH. J. J. MACKENZIE, Baby Beef 524 



Refrigeration in the Meat Industry 528 



G. S. BUCHANAN and S. B. SCHRYVER, The Application of For- 

 maldehyde to Meat , 528 



R. H. REW, Prices and Supplies of Live Stock and Meat. . . 529 



