CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Grants from the Development Fund for the Promotion of 



Agricultural Research and Local Investigations 457 



The Identification and Eradication of Some Common Weeds — II. 

 H. C. Long, B.Sc. (Edin,), with Drawings from Nature by 



Bertha Reid ... ... 480 



The Growth of the Co-operative Movement in Denmark 469 



Changes in Agriculture and Agricultural Prices in the last Twenty Years 481 

 Reports on the Proceedings of the Board under the Diseases of Animals 



Acts 483 



Imports of the Cereal Year ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 485 



The International Agricultural Congress at Madrid ... 488 



The Evesham Custom ... ... ... ... .. ... ... ... 494 



Promotion of Agriculture by Railwaj" Companies in the United States 495 



School of Working Foresters, Forest of Dean 498 



Summary of Agricultural Experiments ... ., 501 



Calcium Cyanide and Nitrate of Lime — Manuring of Meadow Hay — 

 Manuring of Swedes and Mangolds — Manuring of Potatoes — Liming 

 of Arable Land — Relative Economy of Ground and Slaked Lime — 

 Varieties of Swedes— Influence of Italian Rye-Grass on other 

 Grasses and on Clovers — Change of Seed in Oat-growing — Experi- 

 ments with Potatoes — Soy-bean Cake as a Food for Cows— Linseed 

 Cake for Milking Cows — Winter Fattening of Mountain Sheep — 

 Cross-breeding for Fat Lambs — Growth of Tobacco for the 

 Extraction of Nicotine— Potato Leaf-Blotch and Leaf-Roll— Potato 

 Blight — Processes of Cider-Making — Blossoming and Pollination 

 of Fruit. 



Official Circulars and Notices ... 510 



Report of the Committee on Fiars Prices — Research Scholarships in 

 Agricultural Science — Report of the Committee on Grouse Disease — 

 Outbreaks of Foot-and-Mouth Disease— Departmental Committee 

 on Foot-and-Mouth Disease — Recent Leaflets — County Committees 

 for the Encouragement of the Horse Breeding Industry — Report on 

 the Proceedings of the Board under the Tithe and other Acts. 



Miscellaneous Notes ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 514 



Demand for Agricultural Machinery and Fertilisers in Russia — 

 Live Stock and Agriculture in Egypt— Establishment of a Service 

 for the Inspection of Plant Diseases in France — Proposed Stan- 

 dard for Roumanian Wheat — Progress of Agriculture in Greece — 

 Forest Reserves in Canada — Importation of English-Grown Sugar 

 Beet into Holland — Agriculture in Argentina in 1910 — Future of 

 the Manchurian Bean Trade — Live Stock Shows at the Turin 

 International Exhibition — Effect of Electricity on Sheep Raising. 



Notes on the Weather in August ... ... 520 



Crop Conditions in Great Britain on September 1st 520 



Notes on Crop Prospects Abroad 521 



Report of the International Agricultural Institute— World's Wheat 



Crop— World's Hop Crop— Germany — United States. 



Prevalence of Animal Diseases on the Continent , 524 



Agricultural Labour in August ... ' 525 



The Corn Markets in August. C. Kains-J ackson 526 



The Live and Dead Meat Trade in August. A. T. Matthews ... 528 



The Provision Trade in August. Hedley Stevens 530 



The Fruit and Vegetable Trade in August. W. W. GUnny ... 531 



Prices of Agricultural Produce 533' 



Diseases of Animals 538 



Selected Contents of Periodicals 539 



Additions to the Library 540 



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