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II Legislative Provisions and Measures, etc. 



The Agricultural Holdings Act 1908 Page 40 



AUBREY J. SPENCER, Contemporary Agricultural Law in Great 



Britain , . . , 41 



H. M. V., The Development Act, 1909 42 



Advisory Committee on Agricultural Research. Society for Ex- 

 tending the Rothamsted Experiments 43 



P. G. CRAIGIE, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries .... 44 

 Estimate of Expenditure for Financial Year 1908-1909, as passed 



by Parliament for the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries . 46 



The Right to Free Culture 47 



III General Considerations and Inquiries into the 

 Conditions of Agriculture. 



Sir HORACE PLUNKETT, The Launching of a New Agricultural Po- 

 licy for English Speaking Nations : Better Farming, Better Bu- 

 siness, Better Living 47 



JAMES MACDONALD, A Bird's Eye View of English Agriculture 49 

 JOHN WRIGHTSON, Agricultural Divisions of England and their 



Chief Characteristics in Soil and Climate 54 



High Farming in England . 57 



JAMES S. MACDONALD, Is the British Farmer, content? No; but 



he has good cause to be , 60 



A. D. HALL, Agriculture and the Development Grant .... 60 



FREDERIC IMPEY, Small Holdings in England 67 



R. F., The Agricultural Population of Great Britain 70 



E. DOMMEN, Essay on British Agriculture 71 



A German View of English Farming 73 



PHILIPPE MILLET, The Agricultural Crisis in England : A French 



View of English Agriculture 73 



Progress in Lancashire Agriculture 74 



T. Me K. and MARY C. HUGHUES, Cambridgeshire 75 



T. A. COWARD, Cheshire ; Cambridge County Geographies . . 75 



Lord Rayleigh's Farm in Essex. Home Counties 75 



W. E. BEAR, Agriculture of Jersey 76 



JOHN DRYSDALE, Carse Farming in Stirlingshire, Scotland. . . 77 

 ARCHIBALD MAC NEILAGE, Typical Farms in the West of Scot- 

 land 79 



IV Agricultural Societies and Similar Institutions. 



The Royal Agricultural Society of England 80 



JOHN GILLESPIE, The Highland and Agricultural Society, of Scot- 

 land . 82 



