This volume was originally intended for the first of a 

 series of Bulletins by the Intelligence Office of the Inter- 

 national Institute of Agriculture. It has been thought ex- 

 pedient to issue instead Monthly Bulletins of the Intelligence 

 Office in a brief form, giving information gathered from the 

 current literature of all Nations simultaneously, and limiting 

 this international abstracting to what has been published in 

 the month previous to the issue of the Bulletin. 



The November 1910 number of the Monthly Bulletin is 

 now published, under the title of Bulletin of Agricultural 

 Intelligence and of Plant Diseases. 



The present volume remains as a sample of a publica- 

 tion illustrating the Science and Practice of Farming in a 

 single Country, during a recent short period of time. 



The agriculture of Great Britain has for long been of 

 interest to all nations ; its study should be especially profit- 

 able to-day, when British Agriculture is entering on a 

 period of new development and of revival. It is hoped that 

 the present volume, extracted chiefly from the British Scien- 

 tific and Agricultural Press of 1910, may prove useful and 

 suggestive to the readers of many countries, for the service 

 of all and each of which the International Institute of Agri- 

 culture has come into being. 



Rome, December 1910. 



ITALO GIGLIOLT. 



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