Vol. XXVL PUBLISHED MONTHLY. No. 12. 



The Jbiirnal 



OF THE 



Ministry of Agriculture 



MARCH, 1920. 



PRINCIPAL CONTENTS, 



(for Complete List of Contents sda page xv,) paor 



Wheat Prices in 1920 and 1921 1153 



Farm Settlements - -- -- -- - 1157 



The Harper Adams Soiling- Experiments - - - - 1159 



Farms cultivated by Women 1161 



A Farm Institute in Somerset - - - - - - 1163 



The Improvement of Grass Land - - - - - 1167 



Feeding* Stuffs for April. From the Animal Nutrition Institute^ 



Cambridge University - - - - - - -1182 



Manures for April. From the Rothamsted Experimental StaMon ^ 1186 



Compound Manures 1189 



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

 The Plcug-h 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 



Ag"rieultural Housing* and Rent of Cottag*es. Lord Astor- 1212 

 Swedes, Turnips and Mang*olds at Cockle Park. Professor 



B. A. ailchrist, M.Sc. 1220 



Incubating- Stations - - - - - - - - 1227 



Tithe Rentcharg-e 1232 



Clover Stem-rot. a. D. Cotton - 1241 



The Skin Spot Disease of Potato Tubers - - - - 1245 



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