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CONTENTS. 



Notes for the Month — 



Early Solving of Winter Wheat — Fruit (Cultivation in a Gravel Pit — 

 A Woman Adviser to the Ministry — Instruction in Horticulture — 

 Market Gardening and Poultry Keeping — Supply of Fruit Trees for 



Small Holdings ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 405 



Fish Meal as Food for Live Stock — Planting of Early Potatoes in Infected 

 Areas — Nitrogen from the Air — The Small Holder s Horse — Prosecution 



for Travelling an Unlicensed Stallion ... ... ... ... ... 414 



Foot-and- Mouth Disease — The Transport of Food Produce by Aeroplane — 



Rat Catching in Devonshire — Agricultural Wages Board ... ... 419 



The 1921 Wheat Crop : Britain must Grow More. Sir Thomas 



Middlcton, K.B.E., C.B 424 



The Progress of Agricultural Co-operation in England and Wales 



SINCE THE Armistice. R. H. Carr ... ... ... ... ... 428 



The Work of Agricultural Executive Committees since the Armistice 437 



Farmyard Manure: Its Making and Usp:. E. J. Russell, D.Sc. ... 444 



The Decline in Sheep Breeding. Sir Henry Rew, K.C.B 450 



Open-Air Pig-Keeping 456 



Economic Position of the Poultry Industry. Edward Broum, F.L.S. 458 



Utility Rabbit Keeping at Public Institutions ... ... ... 463 



Buildings for Small Holders : Expep.iments in Adaptation. 



Captain S. Douglas Meadoics ... ... ... ... ... ... 468 



The Scorching of Foliage by Sea- Winds. L. A. Boodle 479 



Pests Appearing during August 487 



Feeding Stuffs in August. Professor T B. Wood, C.B.E., M.A. ... 490 



Notices of Books ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 493 



Questions in Parliament 496 



Ormskirk Potato Trials 497 



Rcabies 497 



Leaflets issued by the Miiiistiy... ... ... ... ... ... ... 497 



Weather Forecasts for Farmers ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 498 



Removal of Prohibition on the Export of Live Stock ... ... ... 498 



Re-exportation of Horses from France ... ... ... ... ... ... 498 



Export of Oil Cake from France 498 



Restricted Importation of Lucerne Seed ... ... ... ... ... 499 



Additions to the Library ... ... ... ... ... 499 



Selected Contents of Periodicals ... ... ... ... ... ... 500 



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