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The Journal 



OF THE 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



DECEMBER, 1902. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



Farmyard Manure - 289 



Milking* and Butter-Test Trials. Ernest Mathews - - 297 



Some Potato Diseases ..... 307 



Butter Record of the Buckhold Herd. Herbert Watney\ M.D. 312 



A New Potato Disease. M. a Potter, M.A. - - - - 320 

 Some English Co operative Agricultural Societies at Work 



/. Nugent Harris --------- 324 



British Crops of 1902 - 332 



The House-SparrOW. John Percival, M.A., EES., ECS. - 338 



On the Cultivation of Lucerne. John o. Peet, B.Sc. - - 343 



Wool and Shoddy. John W. Turner 345 



The Brined Onion Industry 349 



Agriculture in Hungary. Edward Brown, EES. - - 355 



Agricultural and Miscellaneous Notes 360 



Harvest and Crop Reports 405 



Prices of Agricultural Produce 417 



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