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CONTENTS. 



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Notes 1153 



Price of the 11)20 Wheat Crop— Price of the 1921 Wheat Crop— Decontrol 



of Pigs— Decontrol of Home-grown Meat. 

 Tractor and Horse Schemes County Agricultural Committees and 



Village Life — Wart Disease — Farm Settlements — The Harper Adams 



Soiling Experiment — Farms cultivated b}-^ Women — Milk Recording 



Societies — A Farm Institute in Somerset. 

 Plant Hygiene — The Improvement of Grass Land — Publications on the 



Improvement of Grass Land — Weak and Dis^eased Fruit Tree Stocks. 

 The Ministry and the River Ouse Drainage Scheme — Land Drainage in 



Anglesey — The Lincoln Tractor Trial^ — Tractor Trials in 1920 — 



The Best Seeds for Silage and Summer Soiling. 

 Forage Crops for Pigs : The Value of Rape — A Simple Apparatus for 



Gassing Rats — Organised Rat Destruction— Pig Insurance — The 



Government and the Bee-keepers — Nissen Huts. 



Feeding Stuffs for April. From the Animal Nutrition Institute, 



Cambridge University ... ... ... ... ... 1182 



Manures FOR April. From the Rothamsted Experimental Station ... 1186 



Compound Manures 1189 



Farming of the United Kingdom in Peace and in War : The 



Plough Policy and its Results. Sir Thomas Middleton, 



K.B.E., C.B 1192 



The Farewell Rally of the Women's Land Army and a 



Retrospect. N. Frida Hartley 1205 



Agricultural Housing and Rent op Cottages. Lord Astor ... 1212 

 Swedes, Turnips and Mangolds at Cockle Park. Professor B. A. 



Gilchrist, M.Sc 1220 



Incubating Stations 1227 



Tithe Rentcharge 1232 



Imports of Food 1236 



Clover Stem-rot. A. B. Cotton 1241 



The Skin Spot Disease of Potato Tubers 1245 



Agriculture Abroad 1250 



Manures in Germany and Sweden — Peasant Proprietorship in France — 



Agricultural Labour in Holland— Agricultural Education in Belgium 



— Live Stock to the Hundred Acres in Europe. 



Notices of Books 1254 



Replies to Questions in Parliament affecting Agriculture 1257 



Agricultural Conditions in England and Wales on 1st March 1261 



Prices of Ground Basic Slag 1261 



Advisory Committee on Steam Cultivation and Threshing ... ... ... 1261 



Foot-and-Mcuth Disease 1261 



Rabies 1262 



January Journal : Errata 1262 



Additions to the Library 1262 



Selected Contents of Periodicals 1264 



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