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Second Volume ( i8oj) : Peat Moss ; Composts ; Burning Lime with 

 Peat ; the Cattle and Corn of the Highlands ; Black Cattle ; Corn ; Heath 

 Burning ; Manufactures ; Inland Villages ; the Herring ; Dutch Fishery ; the 

 Salmon ; the Fisheries ; Various Improvements in the Highlands ; the Cul- 

 ture of Potatoes ; Preserving Lives in cases of Shipwreck. 



Third Volume (iSoj) : The Herring ; Peat ; Frosted Com ; Lime Kilns ; 

 Improvement of Muir ; Grasses ; Irrigation ; Survey of Watered Meadows ; 

 the Diseases of Sheep ; Sheep Farming in the Highlands. 



Fourth Volume (1816): Stapling of Wool in Scotland; Varieties of 

 Wheat, Barley, Oats, Peas, and Beans ; Distempers of Corn and other Pulse 

 Plants ; Improvements in Agriculture ; Smut in Wheat and Barley ; Mildew 

 in Wheat ; Veitch's Plough ; Hedges ; Converting Heath to Cattle Feeding, 

 Tanning Leather, &c. ; Charring Peat ; Whin Hedges ; Constructing and 

 Repairing Roads ; Culinary Salt ; Making Pure Salt from Sea Water ; Ac- 

 counts of part of Wigtownshire ; Part of Ayrshire ; Part of Argyle and 

 Inverness-shires ; Soiling Stock on Clover ; Best-managed Farms in Kintyre ; 

 Advantages of a Law for Facilitating Drainage in Scotland ; the Grubber ; 

 Preserving Potatoes from Frost ; Best mode of forming Savings Banks. 



Fifth Volume (1820) : Making Kelp ; Drilled Wheat ; Feeding Horses ; 

 Fiorin Grass ; Mrs Love's Beads for ascertaining the Specific Gravity of 

 Liquids ; the Grubber ; Woods and Plantations ; Manufacture of Turpentine ; 

 Application of Timber to the construction of a Bridge. 



Sixth Volume (1824) : Railroads ; Experiments with Salt as a Manure, 

 and in the Feeding of Stock ; Irrigation ; Sowing the Seeds of Forest Trees ; 

 Drilled and Broadcast Wheat ; Fiorin Grass ; Calves reared chiefly on Fiorin 

 Tea ; Farina of Potatoes ; Destruction of Vermin, and the Pickling of Seed 

 Wheat ; Draining of Lochcoat Loch ; Draining Moss Lands ; Kelp ; Planta- 

 tions ; Dairy Husbandry ; Reclaiming Drift Sand ; Report on Friendly 

 Societies and relative Tables* ; Wedge Draining Clay Lands ; Zostera, or Sea 

 Grass ; Sheep Husbandry in Orkney ; Odometer ; New Steam Vessel ; Appa- 

 ratus for Boring or Sinking Pits ; Instrument for ascertaining the Composition, 

 &c., of Strata ; Milk Churn Worked by the Impulse of Wind on Sails ; New 

 Stove ; Machine for Sweeping Chimneys. 



Second Series, 1828-18^2. 

 The second series, begun in 1828, was published 

 quarterly, along with the Journal of Agriculture, and com- 

 prised eight volumes, containing nearly 500 reports. 



Third Series, 184J-186J. 

 The third series, commenced in 1843, was also a 



* These Tables, though compiled with great care, and under the best 

 professional advice that could at the time be obtained, were found by later 

 experience to be in some respects incorrect, and unfit to be adopted as a safe 

 standard. The Society consequently resolved to cancel the Tables, and inti- 

 mated their withdrawal in the Transactions for October 1851. The subject 

 was afterwards, at the request of the Directors, taken up by the Institute of 

 Actuaries. 



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