Vol. XIII [OFFICIAL COPY.] No. 1. 



^^\^^^ The Journal 



OF THE 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



APRIL, 1906. 



CONTENTS 



Bare Fallows. A. D. Hall, M. A. - ^ - ~ i 



White and Alsike Clover Seed and their Impurities. V, 



Finlayson^ F.L.S. - - - - ~ - - - - 7 



Potato Growing'. /. G. Stewart, M.A. - 15 

 Manuring" the JMangold Crop - ----- 26 



Agricultural Education in Canada - 29 



Formation of Small Holdings in Germany 35 



Experiments with Lime Nitrogen {^Calcium Cyanamide) 38 



Sugar-Beet Experiments - - ~ - 44 



Cooking Quality of Potatoes - 47 



A New Tuber {^ola?ti(i/i Cojiumrsofii) - - ~ - - - 49 



Notes as to Crop Prospects - ~ - 50 



A Fungous Disease of Lucerne - - - 51 



Poisoning of Cattle by **Java" Beans - 52 



Adulteration of Feeding Stuffs - - - - 53 



Milk Tests for Farmers in Somerset - - - 54 



' Canker " Fungus and Woolly Aphis - - - 55 



Eastern Counties Farmers' Co-Operative Association 56 



Protection of Fruit Trees from Frost 57 



Additions to the Library during March - - 58 



Prices of Agricultural Produce - 59 



Diseases of Animals . - - 64 



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