CONTENTS OF VOL. XIV. 



ARTICLE TAGE 



I, — Relations of Geology to Agriculture in North-Eastern America. 

 No. II. By James F. W. Johnston, F.R.S.L. & E. ; Hon. 

 Member of the Royal Agricultural Society . . .1 



II. — Experiments with Nitrate of Soda, Guano, &c. By Lieut. - 



Col. Sir J. M. Tylden 15 



III. — The Farming of Derbyshire. By John Jephson Rowley. 



Prize Report . . . . . . .17 



ly, — A Method of preserving Corn-Stacks from Damage by Rooks. 



By the Rev. Thomas Burroughes . . . .67 



V. — On the Production of Butter. By Louis H. Ruegg . . 68 



VI. — On the improved Methods of Cropping and Cultivating Light 



Land. By Sydney Evershed, Albury, Guildford. Prize Essay 79 

 VII. — Notes on the Geology of the Keythorpe Estate, and its re- 

 lations to the Keythorpe System of Draining, By Joshua 



Trimmer, F.G.S 96 



VIII. — On the Hereditary Diseases of Horses. By Finlay Dun, Jun., 

 V.S., Lecturer on Materia Medica, &c., at the Edinburgh 

 Veterinary College. Prize Essay .... 106 



IX. — Report upon the Rye and Derwent Drainage. By John Hen- 

 derson . . . . . . . . 129 



X.— On Mr. Bickford's Method of Irrigation. From Mr. Archer . 153 

 XI. — A detailed Report of tiie Drainage by Steam-power of a Portion 

 of Martin Mere, Lancashire. By Henry White, Land Agent, 

 &c., Warrington . . . . . . .156 



XII. — On the relative Nutritive and Fattening Properties of different 

 Natural and Artificial Grasses. By J. Thomas Way, Con- 

 sulting Chemist to the Royal Agricultural Society of England 171 



XIII. — Flax, its Treatment, Agricultural and Technical. By John 



Wilson, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. , &c. . . . .187 



XIV. — Experiment on Drainage at different Depths. By R. Milward 210 

 XV. — On the Comparative Profit realized with different breeds of 



Sheep. By Samuel Druce . . . . .211 



XVI. — On a Method of obtaining immediate Fixity of Type in forminj:: 



a new Breed of Sheep. By M. Malingie-Nouel, Director of 

 the Agricultural School of La Charmoise, President of the Ag-ri- 

 cultural Society of Loire et Cher. Translated by Mr. Pusey . 214 



XVII. — On the Subsequent Manuring Effects of Burned Clay. By J. 



J. Mechi ........ 224 



XVIII. — On the Silica Strata of the Lower Chalk. By J. Thomas 



Way and J. M. Paine ... • . . 225 



XIX. — Second Report on the Prevention of Pleuro-Pneumonia in Cattle 

 by Inoculation. By Professor Simonds, Veterinary Inspector 

 to the Society ...... . 244 



XX. — On the Farming of East Lothian. By Charles Stevenson . 275 

 XXI. — On Covered Homestalls. From W. Fisher Hobbs . . 325 



XXII. — On Covered Farm-Steadings. From Lord Kiimaird , . 336 



XXIII. — Judges' Report on the Exhibition of Implements at the Glou- 



cester Meeting, 1853. From Sir Matthew Whke Ridley, Bart. 343 



XXIV. — On the Natural Law by which Nitrate of Soda, or Cubic 



Saltpetre, acts as a Manure, and on its Substitution for Guano, 



By the President . 374 



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