English AgriciiUnral Society, 



Iv 



keep than our own, it will be well worth while to inquire into 

 the clifFerence of dairy management in Holland and in this 

 country. 



X. — Physiology of Agriculture. 



This last head would include questions of a more abstract 

 nature ; and whereas, under the others, we should have to ob- 

 serve and record matters of fact — as, for instance, that bone- 

 manure is beneficial on certain soils, and inefficient on certain 

 other soils — under this head we should inquire after causes, and 

 endeavour to answer the cjuestion. What is the constituent eleixient 

 of bone which promotes vegetation on some soils, and how is that 

 element rendered inoperative elsevrhere ? 



Your Committee having thus adverted to some of the principal 

 heads which appear to them of most immediate interest in the 

 present state of English husbandry, will conclude by expressing 

 their hope that the members of the Society will strengthen its 

 collective endeavours by their own individual efforts on their 

 respective farms and properties ; and that a miass of facts and 

 observations may thus gradually be brought together, by the 

 careful comparison of which, nevv- light may be thrown on many 

 of the obscure and doubtful points of Agricultural science. 



