IV 



CONTKNTS. 



ARTICLE FAGE 



XIX.— On the Cultivation of Flax. By George Nicholls . .438 



XX — On Box-feeding with Linseed Compounds. By George 



Nicholls 473 



XXI. — Comparison of the Consumption of Food by Large and Small 



Sheep. By George Shaekel ..... 487 



XXIL — The Sheep-Pox ; its Causes, Symptoms, Prevention, and 

 Cure: in a Letter to the President and Council of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society of England. By J. Stanley 

 Carr, Esq., Honorary Member of the Royal Agricultural 



^ Society of England, and several Continental Agricultural 



Societies 489 



XXin. — Agricultural Chemistry— Turnips. By John Bonnet Lawes 494 



XXIV. — Improvement of Shepherd's Corner Farm. By Lord Portman 565 



XXV.— Turf Draining Tiles. From the Duke of Richmond . . 570 

 XXVL -Autumn Cleaning of Wheat- Stubbles. By Ph. Pusey, M.P. 570 



XXVII.— On a Variety of ItaUan Rye-Grass. By W^. Dickinson . 572 



APPENDIX. 



Council and Officers of the Royal Agricultural Society of England i 



Honorary Members ........ ii 



Report of the Council to the General Meeting, May 22, 1847 . iii 

 Statement of Half-yearly Accounts ending 31st December, 1846 . vii 

 Statement of Special Country-Meeting Account, Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne, 1846 viii 



A wards of Prizes for Essays and Reports, 1847 ... ix 



Prizes for Essays and Reports on various Subjects, 1848 . . x 



Rules of Competition for Prize Essays ..... xiii 



Dates of General Meetings of 184 7-8 ..... xiv 



Council and Officers of the Royal Agricultural Society of England xv 



Honorary Members ........ xvi 



Meeting at Northampton xvii 



Commendations ......... xxiv 



General Meetings of 1847-8 ....... xxviii 



Country Meeting at York in the year 1848 .... xxix 



General Regulations for the Exhibition of Implements . . xxxi 



Prizes for Essays and Reports on various Subjects, 1848 . . xxxvi 



Rules of Competition for Prize Essays . . . , , xl 



PLATES. 



Map of the Great Ley A of the Fens, &c. of South Lincolnshire, to 

 face page 132. 

 ,, of Suffolk, to face page 262. 

 Plate S, Insects affecting the Pea Crops, &c., to face page 416. 

 Map of Northumberland, to face page 436. 



DIRECTIONS TO BINDER. 



The Binder is desired to place all the Appendix matter, with Roman 

 numeral folios, at the end of the Journal, excepting Titles and Contents, 

 which are in all cases to be placed at the beginning of the Part or Volume. 



