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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIV. 



ARTICLE PAGE 



XXV. — On the Refuse of the Cod-Fishery of Newfoundland as con- 

 vertible into a Portable Manure. A Despatch from the 

 Governor to the Duke of Newcastle .... 393 

 XXVI. — On the Farming of Surrey. By Henry Evershed, Albury, 



Guildford. Prize Report 395 



XXV [I.— On the Bean-Turnip Fallow. By the Rev. Th. Burroughes 425 

 XXVIII. — On Improving Grass-Land, &c. By Richard Milward . 430 

 XXIX. — New System of Irrigation. By Joseph Druce , . . 432 

 XXX. — Farming of Herefordshire. By Th. Rowlandson. Prize 



Report ......... 433 



' XXXI. — Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at the Gloucester 



Meeting of the Society. By Richard Milward . . 456 

 XXXII. — Agricultural Chemistry. — Pig-Feeding. By J. B. Lawes, 



ofRothamsted ........ 459 



APPENDIX. 



Council and Officers of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 



1852-1853 . i 



Report of the Council to the General Meeting, Dec. 11, 1852 . ii 



Balancc-Sheet of General Account : January— June, 1852. . ix 



Report of the Council to the General Meeting, May 23, 1853 . x 



Balance-Sheet of General Account : July— December, 1852 . xiv 



Essays and Reports — Prizes for 1854 . . . . . xv 



Essays and Reports — Awards, 1853 ..... xix 



Prizes : — Substitute for Guano. — Discovery of Guano . . xix 



Memoranda — Local Cheques — Farming Accounts . . . xx 



Council and Officers, 1853-1854 ..... . xxi 



Memoranda of Meetings, Prizes, &c. ; Privileges, &c. . . xxii 



Report of the Council to the General Meeting, Dec. 10, 1853 . xxiii 



Balance-Sheet of Half-yearly Account ending June 30, 1853 . xxviii 



Detailed Statement of Country Meeting Account, Lewes, 1852 . xxix 

 Country Meeting at Gloucester, July 13-15, 1853 : — 



List of Judges and consulting Officers . . . ■ . xxxii 



Awards of Prizes and Commendations for Live Stock . . xxxiii 



Awards of Prizes and Commendations for Implements . , xliv 



PLATES. 



Map to illustrate the Relations of Geology to Agriculture in North- 



Eastern America . . . , " . to face page 1 



Geological Map of Derbyshire . . . . „ 19 



Isometrical Drawings— Covered Homestalls . . „ 325 



Diagrams, I. and II., Pig Feeding . . . . „ 542 



DIRECTIONS TO BINDER. 



The Binder is desired to collect together all the Appendix matter, with Roman numeral folios, and 

 place It at the end of each volmiie of the Journal, excepting Titles and Contents, which are in all 

 cases to be placed at the beginning of the Volume : the lettering at the back to include a statement 

 of the year as well as the volume; the first volume belonging to 1839-40, the second to 1841, the 

 third to 1842, the fourth to 1843, and so on. 



In reprints of the Journal, all Appendix matter (and in one instance an Article in the body of the 

 J oumal), whicli at the time liad become obsolete, were omitted ; the Roman numeral folios, however 

 (for convenience of reference), being reprmted without alteration in the Appendix matter retained. 



