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CONTENTS. 



The Cum Production Acts (Repml) Ad, lU n— Wheal a ad (Md.s 

 (Payment C/ainisJ — The Production of Artijicial Farmyard Manure 

 — Preliminary Estimates of Acreage under Crops and Number of 

 Live Stock — Nauru Phosphate — Sale of Diseased Plants Order of 

 1921 — The Sale of Seeds in small Packets — Deparlmenlol Committee 



on Allotments ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 481 



Conciliation Co.mmittee.s in A(;i:icri.Ti-i:E 488 



The New Faum In.stitutes Sir A. I). Hull, K.CB., F.Jl.S 49-2 



The Staffokd.shihe Farm In.stiti'te, Rodiu.ston. J. C. lii'.ihton, F.lf.A.S. 4yr> 



AouicrLTritAL Research a.s a Career 497 



The Herdwick Sheep. A. Ewing Reid, M.C, N.D.A., X.D.lJ. ... f>01 



Silage fok Dairy Cows. 0. S. Robertson, B.Sc., and F. J. Pitcher .. 50« 



The South-Eastei;n A<;r.ici'LTUi:AL College, Wye. M. J. R. Dunstan... 516 



Basic Slag Problems ... ... ... ... ... ... 521 



The Scarcity of Swallows. H. Boase ... ... ... 526 



Pa( KIN(; Ai'i'LEs IN Bd.XEs. /. Tnrnhall ^ ... ... 531 



Imi'ekial Fruit Show ... ... ... ... ... ... 540 



The Working of a Fedehation of Women's IxsTi'irTEs: Doiise'I'. 



Benita Lady Lees ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 543 



The Ra.si'rerry Gall Fly. Herbert JF. Miles, X.D. A. ... 548 



Thihd International Congress on Seed Testing at Copenhagen. 



C. B. Saunders ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 551 



XoTEs ON Feeding Stuffs foi; September. F. T. Hainan, M.A., 



' Dip. Agric. (Cantah.) 554 • 



Prices of Fertilisers ... 556 



The Fall in Live Stock Prices ... ... ... ... ... ... 557 



International Potato Conference ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 559 



Manuiing for Meat and Milk ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 5(50 



Labelling English Honey ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 562 



Improvement of Grassland ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 563 



New Seeds Regulation.s ... ... ... ... ... . ... ... 564 



West Surrey ( ioat Clul > ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . . 565 



A Successful Egg-c(jllecting Society ... ... ... ... ... ... 566 



Agriculture Aiskoad — 



Milk Recording in Canada — [mproring the Native Fowl in Northtrn 



Nigeria ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 568 



Notices of 13ooks ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 571 



Agricultural Returns. England and Wales, 1921 ... . ... ... 572 



Acreage of Hops in England and Wales ... ... ... ... .. . 575 



Plans for Poultry Houses ... ... ... .. .. . ... 575 



E.xport of Live Stock to Argentina ... ... ... ... ... ... 575 



Leaflets issued by the Ministry ... ... ... ... .. ... ... 576 



Rabies ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . . ... 5 7(j 



Foot-and-Mouth Disea.se ... ... ... ... ... 576 



Revocation of the Testing (jf Seeds Order. 191^ ... 576 



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 is acknowledged in each case. 



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