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ticated cotton cake and maize meal fed to live stock during a rotation. 

 The comparison is made with two different systems of manuring — (a) 

 feeding the cake or corn on the land to sheep, and (b) manuring the 

 swede crop with dung made at home by bullocks consuming cake or 

 corn. The results for 1909 are given, the rotation not being yet 

 finished. No marked differences were shown between the results from 

 the cake and maize meal. 



Rotation Experiments (Rothamsted Expt. Stat., Ann. Rept., 1909). 

 — The Agdell Field has been farmed since 1848 on a four-course rota- 

 tion of swedes, barley, clover (or beans), or fallow, and wheat. It is 

 divided into three plots, one of which has received no manure, one 

 mineral manures only, and the third a complete manure, containing 

 the same minerals and also nitrogen. Each of these plots is sub- 

 divided into two ; one-half carries clover or beans as the third crop j 

 of the course, and the other half is bare fallow. This report contains 

 the weights of the crops during the last complete course of the rota- 

 tion (1904-7), and the first two years of the present course, in con- 

 tinuation of the results discussed in the Guide to the Experimental 

 Plots, 1906. 



In another experiment wheat (unmanured) has alternated with 

 fallow each year since 185 1, for comparison with the plot on which 

 wheat has been grown every year without manure. 



Manuring of the Rotation (E. Suffolk Educ. Com. and Camb. 

 Univ. Dept. of Agric, Rept. on Manurial Expts. at Saxmundham and 

 Bramford to end of 1907). — Two rotations were completed in 1907 on 

 the manurial plots at these experimental stations. At both places a 

 four-course rotation of roots, barley, leguminous crop, and wheat was 

 followed, and the land was divided into four parts, so that each year it 

 carried the four crops of the rotation. Each of these parts was divided 

 into ten plots of acre each, which received different manurial treat- | 

 ment. The results over a period of eight years are discussed in this 

 report. 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND CIRCULARS. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have recently issued a 

 Directory of Agricultural Associations in Great Britain, giving, so fat- 

 as could be ascertained, a list of all the 

 Directory of Societies and Associations having reference to 



Agricultural Agriculture and its allied industries, with the 



Associations. name and address of the Secretary in each 



case. 



The list includes, in the first place, all the societies whose sphere 

 of operations is not confined to any one county or district, and these 

 are classified under the following headings : — General : Agricultural 

 Associations and Chambers of Agriculture, and Co-operative Societies; 

 Live Stock Societies, distinguishing societies relating to horses, cattle, 

 sheep, pigs, goats, and poultry. In the same way, societies relating 

 to Horticulture, Dairying, Forestry, Hops, Milling, Education, Re- 

 search, and some other subjects are separately grouped. The local 

 societies are arranged so as to show the Agricultural Associations, 

 Chambers of Agriculture, Farmers' Clubs, Co-operative Societies^ In- 



