Vol. XII. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. No. 6. 



The Journal 



OP THE 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



SEPTEMBER, 1905. 



[NEW SERIES.] 



PRINCIPAL CONTENTS. 



Page 



National Fruit and Cider Institute. B. T. P. Barker, M.A. 321 



Agricultural Returns of 1905 335 



Conferences on Railway Rates - - - - - - 340 



Agricultural Imports of the Cereal Year - - 341 



Future Wheat Production of Canada 345 



Blindness in Barley and Oats - 347 



Notes on Foreign Crop Prospects 350 



Improvement of Mang-els - ... . 353 



The Alice Holt Woods - .... 353 



Prevention and Cure of Foot-Rot in Sheep - - 360 



Epizootic Lymphangitis Order, 1905 ----- 364 



Live Stock Import Regulations— Belgium - - - - 365 



Condiments in Animal Foods - - - - 367 



Eg'g-Laying- Competition in New South Wales - - - 369 



Milk Contracts - - - - 371 



Prices of Agricultural Produce - . - - 379 



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