Besides continuing the field and other experiments on barley, 

 grasses etc., some of which were begun many years ago, several 

 new experiments and investigations were started. Among the former 

 may be mentioned one bearing on the comparative values of the 

 new tertilisers cyanamide and nitrate of lime. Among the latter 

 one aided by a special grant from the Board of Agriculture, into 

 the causes of the superiority of certain pastures in Romney Marsh 

 over the surrounding fields. Daily observations of the temperature, 

 water level, etc. were taken ; regular samples of the grass, soil, etc. 

 were forwarded to the Laboratory, and are now being worked up. 



Dr. Miller has been following up some earlier investigations on 

 the amount of ammonia which can be absorbed from the atmo- 

 sphere. It is interesting to note that the amount of ammonia in 

 the air above Broadbalk was notably increased for some time 

 after the application of ammoniacal manures. 



Dr. Miller in also estimating the amount of ammonia and nitric 

 acid in rain water that is sent regularly from the extreme West 

 of Scotland, and obtains results much below those yielded by in- 

 land stations. 



During the year the following papers have been published in 

 the Jour, of Agric. Science., Vol. Ill, Part. 2. 



" The effect of Partial Sterilisation of Soil on the Production of 

 Plant Food" 



"Direct Assimilation of Ammonium salts by Plants". 



" The Development of the Grain of Wheat ". 



" The amount of free Lime and the composition of the soluble Phos- 

 phates in Basic Slag". 



" The estimation of Calcium Carbonate in Soils ". 



The above papers are reviewed elsewhere in the present Bul- 

 letin of Agricultural Information. 



The English Peasant. The Edinburgh Review. April, 1909, 



p. 338-364. 



i. A History of the English Agricultural Labourer. By Dr. W. 

 HASBACH, Professor of Political Economy in the University of Kiel. 

 Newly edited by the author and translated by Ruth Kenyan. London : 

 P. S. King and Son. 1908. 2. Life in an English Village: an Eco- 

 nomic and Historical Survey of the Parish of Corsley in Wiltshire. 

 By M. F. DAVIES. London: T. Fisher TInwin. 1909. 



" The historian of the nineteenth century will certainly note among 

 its salient features a remarkable movement which has resulted in the 



