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CONTENTS. 



Notes for the Month — Page 

 Conciliation Committees — The Monthly Agricultural Index NumJjer — TJic 



Agricultural Market Report — University Course in Milk Eecording . . . 865 



The Need for Lime and How to Meet It.— II. B, IT. Bedell ... 869 



Suffolk Sheep. >S'. B. Sherwood 880 



Berkshire Pios. Sanders Spencer 887 



CtTLTiVATiON of THE Hop Crop. — I. Arthur Araos, M.A. 891 



International Labour Conference 897 



Production of Seed Potatoes in Cumberland and "Westmorland. 



Major Oswald Riley 903 



International Potato Conference ... ... 908 



Strawberry Growing in the Cheddar Valley of Somerset. A. D. R. 



Walbank, X.D.A 911 



Bee-keeping in Xorfolk. ff. Govde 913 



Testing Stations for Agricultural Machinery 918 



Land Drainage and Unemployment 922 



The Barn Owl. IVaUer E. Colliwje, D.Sc, F.L.S. 925 



X^OTES ON Manures for January. E. J. Russell, D.Sc , F.R.S. ... 929 



Notes on Feeding Stuffs for January. E. T. Hainan, 31. A., Dip. 



Agric. (Cantab.) 933 



Council of Agriculture for England 937 



Agricultural Advisory Committee for England and AValfs ... 942 



Conciliation Committees in Agriculture 946 



Redemption of Tithe Ptentcharge : Search Charges 947 



Pig Feeding Experiments ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 948 



Crop Reporting and the Collection of Agricultural Statistics ... ... ... 949 



Agriculture Abroad : 



Live Stock Exhibition in Argentina — TJie Grculing of Dairy Traduce in 



CanoAjAi ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 951 



Agricultural Returns, 1921 ... 953 



Foot-and-Mouth Disease ... 954 



Leaflets issued by the Ministry ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 954 



QuestioDS in Parliament 955 



Notices of Books 957 



Selected Contents of Periodicals ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 958 



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