Vol. XI. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. No. 9. 



The Journal 



OF THE 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



DECEMBER, 1904. 



[NEW SERIES.] 



CONTENTS. 



Pagre 



Railway Rates for Agricultural Produce - - - - 513 



British Crops of 1904 - - - - - 519 



Training and Pruning* Fruit Trees. W. E. Bear - - 522 



Winter Egg- Production. H. de Courcy - 529 



Twenty Years' Wheat Imports - - 534 



Protection of Seed against Crows - - 544 



Importance of Pollination in Hop-growing* - - - 545 



Insurance of Cattle in France 547 



The Sheep-Maggot Fly 551 



Importation of British Hams into France - - - 554 



Sclerotium Disease 555 



The Cockchafer in its relation to Forestry - - - 558 



Insurance of Agricultural Produce against Fire - - 565 



Agricultural Education - - .... 566 



Prices of Agricultural Produce 569 



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