CONTENTS. 



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The Feeding of Farm Stock : Part II. The General Feeding 



CHARACTERISTICS OF DIFFERENT CLASSES OF STOCK. Charles 



Crowther, M.A., PkD. ... 985 



Ropy Milk. John Golding, F.I. C. y F.G.S. 991 



The Production of Beet Sugar in a Continental Factory. 



R. N. Bowling, N.D.A. ... 1005 



A Co-operative Sugar Factory in Holland. Home Counties 1014 



Mustard Beetles. R. S. MacDougall, M.A., D.Sc. ... 1017 



Spurrey as a Forage Crop and for use on Sandy Soils ... ... ... 1020 



New Forms of Potash Manures ... ... .. ... ... ... .. 1024 



Friskney Credit Society 1026 



Costs of Production in Agriculture ... ... ... .. ... .. 1U29 



Changes in the Number and Size of Agricultural Holdings ... 1031 



Summary of Agricultural Experiments ... .„ 1033 



Influence of Time of Cutting upon the Yield and Composition of 

 Hay — Varieties of Barley — Growth of Sugar Beet — The Phosphate 

 Nutrition of Plants — Rothamsted Experimental Plots in 1911 — 

 Manuring for Milk — The Manurial Value of Phosphoric Acid 

 contained in Oil Cakes— Tall Oat Grass and Onion Couch — Inves- 

 tigations on Potato Diseases — A Disease of Sweet Peas, Asters and 

 Other Plants — Varieties of Potatoes immune to Wart Disease — 

 A new Insect Pest of Mangolds and Beet — Contact Insecticides 

 — Effect of Lime-Sulphur Wash on Scale Insects — Diseases of 

 Live Stock — Origin of Thoracic Tuberculosis in Calves — The Effect 

 of Grass on Fruit Trees — Feeding Experiments with Cattle and 

 Sheep— Milking Machine Trials— The Food of the Starling. 



Official Notices and Circulars ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1045 



Advisory Committee on the Development of Forestry — Depart- 

 mental Committee on Buildings for Small Holdings — Departmental 

 Committee on Small Holdings (Cheaper Buildings) — Committee 

 on Mountain and Moorland Breeds of Ponies — American Gooseberry 

 Mildew Notice Forms— Tomato and Cucumber Canker — Re-Alloca- 

 tion of Duties of H.M. Commissioners of Woods — Importation of 

 Animals, Hay and Straw into Ireland from Great Britain — Produce 

 of Crops in Great Britain. 



Notes on Agriculture Abroad ... ... ... ... ... .,, ... 1048 



Importation of Australian Mutton into Germany — Potato Drying in 

 Germany — Estimated Export of Siberian Butter in 1912 — Dry 

 Farming in Russia — Improvement of Agriculture in Russia. 



Notes on the Weather in February 1052 



Agricultural Conditions in Great Britain in February ... ... ... 1053 



Notes on Crop Prospects Abroad ... 1053 



Report of the International Agricultural Institute — India— United . 

 States. 



Prevalence of Animal Diseases on the Continent ... 1054 



Agricultural Labour in England during February , ... 1055 



The Corn Markets in February. G. Kains- Jackson „ 1056 



The Live and Dead Meat Trade in February. A. T. Matthews ... 1059 



The Provision Trade in February. Hedley Stevens ... 1061 



Statistical Tables, &c .* 1063 



(Title Page and Index to Vol. XVIII.) 



