MINISTRY OP AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES. 



RECENT MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS. 



M.P. No. 18. Cultivation of Osiers and Willows. — A new 



edition of this publication has now been issued. It has been 

 largely re-written, a chapter on the growing of tree willows has 

 been added, and the notes on the cultivation of basket willows 

 expanded, greater stress being laid on the special methods 

 employed in the various willow growing districts. 



Price Is. 6d. net, post free. 



M.P. No. 30. Manuring of Pastures for Meat and Milk 



(William Somerville, M.A., D.Sc). — The Ministry invited 

 Professor Somerville to prepare a new and up-to-date Keport 

 covering the whole ground relating to the manuring of pasture 

 for meat and milk. In publishing this Report the Ministry 

 desires to direct the attention of farmers to the important and 

 practical character of the information here summarised for their 

 use. Price 6d. net, post free. 



M.P. No. 32. Rations for Livestock (T. B. Wood, C.B.E., 

 M.A., F.R.S., F.I.C.). — In this pamphlet is described a 

 simple general method of working out rations for horses, cattle, 

 sheep and pigs. The method is based on the tables giving the 

 composition and nutritive value of a large number of feeding 

 stuffs, and on the curves showing the relation between live 

 weight and food requirements, which are given at the end of 

 the pamphlet. Three impressions of the first edition of this 

 publication have been sold, and the second edition, which has 

 been brought up-to-date, is now obtainable. 



Price 6d. net, post free. 



M.P. No. 35. Report on a Test of Hedge and Stump Clearing 

 Devices. — The description, method of operation and account of 

 trial, is given in each case, for hand grubbing tools, timber 

 jacks, stump extractor, triple horse puller, compound steam 

 tractor, steam ploughing engine, motor tractor, farmer's dyna- 

 mite, liquid air and amatol. The Keport is well illustrated and 

 tables are given showing the detailed results of the test. 



Price 2s. 6d. net, post free. 



M.P. No. 37. Beneficial Insects.— Ladybirds, and Lacewing, 

 Hover, Ichneumon and Tachinid Flies. Only too frequently 

 these insects are mistaken for foes and destroyed. The brief 

 descriptions of them and short outlines of their life-histories 

 together with the coloured plates may help towards their wider 

 recognition. Price 4d. net, post free. 



A full list of publications can be obtained from the Ministry 

 10, Whitehall Place, London, S.W.I. 



