Vol. XV. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. No. 6. 



The Journal 



OF THE 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



SEPTEMBER, 1908. 



CONTENTS. 



Farm Accounts. C. S. Orwin, F.S.I. - - - - - 401 



Agricultural Credit Societies 407 



Fruit and Vegetable Production in Germany, France, and 



Holland - 414 



Agricultural Returns of 1908 423 



Imports of Grain in the Cereal Year 1907-8 - - - 427 



Edible Fungi.— I. The Common Morel {with Coloured Plate) - 431 



Notes on Insect, Fungus and other Pests - 432 



Report on Small Holdings 442 



Report of the Intelligence Division ----- 444 



Grant to the Agricultural Organisation Society - - 447 



Importation of Live StOdf into Canada - 449 



Milk Tests in Lancashire - - - 449 



Notes on the Weather and Crops in August - - - 451 



August Report on Crop Prospects - 452 



Notes on Crop Prospects Abroad - - - - 452 



Agricultural Labour in August 455 



Miscellaneous Notes - - - 456 



Summary of Agricultural Experiments - - - 458 



Official Circulars and Notices 463 



Review of Market Prices in August. A. T. Matthews - 466 



The Wool Sales of 1908 - - 470 



Review of the Provision Trade in August. Hedley Stevens- 471 



Statistical Tables, &c. - - - - - - - 473 



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