Vol. XIV. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. No, 12 



The Journal 



OF THE 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



MARCH, 1908. 



CONTENTS. 



Pruning of Fruit Trees— (1) Young Trees. Walter P. Wright 

 Advantages of Goat-keeping.— "Home Counties" - 

 The Poisonous Properties of the Beans of Phaseolus lunatus. 

 Prof. W. R. Dunstan, F.R.S., LL.D., and T. A. Henry, I). Sc. 



Irish Seed Potatoes 



Agriculture in Argentina 



Composition of the Herbage of Pastures - 



Importation of certain Meat Foods - 



Importation of Live Stock into Brazil - 



Milk Tests and Records ------- 



Creamery Systems of Payment 



Plant Import Regulations— Transvaal 



Notes on Insect, Fungus, and other Pests - 



Relation between the Weather and the Flowering of Fruit 



Trees - - - 



Manuring of Forest Trees ------- 



Swedish Society for Moor Cultivation 



Grants for Agricultural Education - 



Instruction in Rural Subjects in Elementary Schools 



Suggestions on Rural Education 



Enlargement of the "Journal" - 

 Circular under the Small Holdings Acts - 

 Conveyance of Dogs by Railway - 

 Suspected Rabies in Northampton - - 

 Notes on the Weather in February - - 



Notes on Crops Abroad 



Miscellaneous Notes and Statistical Tables - - 



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( With Title Page and Index to Vol. XIV.) 



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