CONTENTS OF VOL. VIII. 



T. — The Management of Sheep. By Robert Smith. Prize 



Essay ......... 1 



II. — Account of Hall Farm, near Seven Oaks, Kent, for Eight 



Years, from March 25, 1838, to March 25, 1846 . . 33 



III. — Burning of Land for Manure. By Thomas Rowlandson. 



Prize Essay 46 



IV. — Report of an Experiment with Special Manures, as applied 



to the Growth of Turnips in the Summer of 1846. By 

 Mr. Barclay ........ 57 



V. — On the Management of Wheat. By Edward Roberts, jun. 



Prize Essay 60 



VI. — On Burning Land for Manure. By John Peirson . .77 



VII. — On the Great Level of the Fens, including the Fens of South 



Lincolnshire. By John Algernon Clarke. Prize Report 80 



VIII. — Report on the Analysis of the Ashes of Plants. (Second 

 Part.) By J. Thomas Way, late Professor of Chemistry at 

 the Agricultural College of Cirencester; and G. H. Ogston, 

 late Assistant to Professor Graham, of University College, 

 London , .134 



IX.— On the Cultivation of Field Beet (Mangold Wurzel). By 



George Edmund Raynbird, Prize Essay . , . 209 



X. — ^Turnip Manure. By E. Wagstalfe 225 



XI. — On Agricultural Chemistry. By John Bennet Lawes . 226 



XII.— On the Farming of Suffolk. By Hugh Raynbird. Prize 



Report . . . . . . ' . . . 261 



XIII. — Report on the Exhibition of Implements at the Northampton 



Meeting, 1847 . . . . . . . , 330 



XIV. — On the Cultivation of Flax. By James Mac Adam, jun., 



Secretary to the Royal Society for the Promotion and Im- 

 provement of the Growth of Flax in Ireland. Prize Essay 361 



XV. — Observations on the Natural History and Economy of a Weevil 



affecting the Pea-crops, and various Insects which injure 

 or destroy the Mangold-wurzel and Beet. By John Curtis, 

 F.L.S., Corresponding Member of the Imperial and Royal 

 Georgofili Society of Florence ; of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, &c. Paper XI 11. . . , S99 



XVI. — On a New Mode of preparing Bones fur Manure. By Ph 



Pusey, M.P .* 417 



XVII. — Trial of Seedling Potatoes. By W. Mdes, M.P. . .420 



XVIII. — On the Agriculture of Northumberland. By Thomas L. 



Colbeck. Prize Report . ..... 492 



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