Vol. XXVII. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. No. 3. 



The Journal 



OF THE 



Ministry of Agriculture 



JUNE. 1920. 



PRINCIPAL CONTENTS, 

 (for Complete List ot Contents see page xv,) 

 The New Agriculture Bill ------- 



Agriculture during- Two Great Wars : 1793-1815 and 



1914-1918. The m. Hon. Lord Ernie, M.V.O. 



National Aspects of the Case for Increasing- the Supplies 



of Basic Slag-, sir Thomas Middleton^ K.B.E. - - 241 



The Royal's" War Record. J. P. Goodwin - - - 250 

 Profit and Loss Sharing- in Ag-riculture. J. WyiUe, B.Sc, 



^.D.A, (Hons.) 254 



The Allotment Movement in England and Wales - - 262 

 Some Feeding- Experiments with Dried Blood. L. F, 



Newman, Dip. Ay nr. {(Jamb.) ------ 266 



The study of Rural Economy at Oxford. ^. L. Bemusan - 272 

 The Composition and Feeding- Value of Silag-e - » 2ni 

 Potato Spraying- Trials in the Cambridgeshire Fens, 1919. 



F. n. Petherbridge, M.A, 282 



Potato-leaf Curl 287 



Profitable Apples for Market 290 



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