VoL XXIX. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. No. 5 



The Journal 



OF THE 



Ministry of Agriculture 



AUGUST, 1922. 



PRINCIPAL CONTENTS. 



(For Complete List of Contents see page uii.) page 



The Future of British Agriculture. The Right lion. Lord 



Ernie, PC, M.V.O. - 391 



Farm Institutes. Part I. ------ - 400 



Fattening Of Cattle. A. B. Bruce, M.A., Dip. Agric. (Cantab.) - 409 



Cost of Manual Labour in Milk Production. A. G. Ruston, 



B.A., D.Sc, and Professor R. S. Seton, B.Sc. .... 4H 



The Planning and Construction of Cow-Sheds. II, Major 



H. P. G. Maule, D.S.O., M.C., F.RLB.A. - 419 



The British Friesian. George Hobson - 423 



The Grading and Sizing of Apples. /. Turnbull - - . 427 



Meteorology and Agriculture ------- 432 



Trials of New Varieties of Cereals. II. E. S. Beaven - - 436 



Weather Forecasts by Wireless Telephone - 444 



Reductions in Railway Freight Charges - 445 

 Labour Organization on an East Midlands Farm. Archibald 



Bridges, B.A. - 447 



Cobbett On the Crops. Sir Henry Reiv, K.C.B. - - - - 454 



Report of the Intelligence Department of the Ministry - - 456 



Profitable Egg Farming. Major C. H. Eden - - - - 460 

 Failure of Black Yeo Oats in Glamorgan in 1921. J. D. 



Davidson and Professor R. G. Stapledon, M.A. - 465 



Anthracnose of the Cucumber under Glass. I. W. F. Betcley, 



D.Sc - 469 



Feeding Stuffs for August. E. T. Hainan, M.A., Dip. Agric 



(Cantab.) 473 



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