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CONTENTS. 



Notes foii the Month — TAoji, 

 Conciliation Committees — AyricuUitral Research ami Education — Inter- 

 national Labour Conference — Agricultural Index Number — Inter- 

 national Potato Conference — Tests of Drainage Maohinerij ... ... 673 



Agiucultuee Behind the Lines in France. Lieut. -Colonel J. U. 



Forrester Addie, C.B.E., and. Captain A. T. A. Dohson ... 681 



Abekdeen-Angus Cattle. Cridlan ... 689 



The Breeding of Geese : A Pkofitable Addition to the General 



OR Poultry Farm. Stanley Street-Porter 698 



Payment of Claims under the Corn Production Acts 703 



Improvement of Dairy Cattle in Denmark. Harald Faher 704 



The Ministry's Research (Rat) Laboratory. C. L. Claremont, B.Sc, 



F.I.C. 712 



Pigs for Bacon. Sanders Spencer 719 



Winter Feeding of Live Stock when Roots are Scarce. E. T. 



Hainan, M. A., Dip. Agric. (Cantab.) ... ... ... ... ... 725 



Prevention of Bunt and Smut 730 



Pig and Potato Clubs in Gloucestershire. G. H. Hollingicorth ... 733 



Inspection and Certification of Growing Crops of Potatoes Immune 



- to Wart Disease 739 



The World's Poultry Congress ... 742 



Horticulture in the Penzance Area of Cornwall. G. P. Berry ... 745 



Research in Brewing ... 750 



Demonstration of Flax-1'ulling Machines ... 754 



Notes on Manures for November. E. J. Russell, D.Sc., F.R.S. ... 756 



Cultivation of Sage and Th3niie ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 760 



Grants tor Agricultural Reseaieli... ... ... ... ... ... ... 761 



Acarine Disease of Biees ... 762 



Rabies 763 



West Surrey Goat Club 763 



Leaflets issued by the Ministry ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 763 



Notices of Books ... ... ... ... ' ... ... ... ... ... 764 



Agricultural Returns, 1921 : Produce of Hops .. . ... 767 



Additions to Library ... .. 767 



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