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THE JOURNAL OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE — Advertisements. 



HY. RICHARDSON & COMPY., 



Agricultural Merchants 



and. manufacturers of 



Chemical Manures, 



BASIC SLAG.— For Autumn and Winter application, specially recommended for Poor Grass Land, 

 Seeds, Beans, Peas, Autumn Wheat, Turnips, etc. Highest qualities supplied on specially favourable 

 terms. Quotations on application. 



ARTIFICIAL. FERTILISERS.— H. R. & Co. will be glad to forward to intending purchasers their 

 pamphlet (over 100 pages) on Artificial Fertilisers, their uses, and the best sources of 

 supply, with price lists, etc., on application. 



LINSEED CAKES— finest quality, own brand. Made entirely from well-screened seed ; guarantees, 

 95,per cent purity of seed, 12-13 per oent oil, 29-31 per cent albuminoids, and not exceeding 1 per cent 

 sand, on Dr. Voelcker's test. Also foreign Linseed Cakes of selected brands— Russian, Polish, American, etc. 

 COTTON CAKE, own brand [HRCo., PURE], entirely from finest new Egyptian seed, with guaranteed 

 analysis; also other approved brands. OTHER FOODS.— Decorticated Cotton Cakes and Meals; the 

 Bibby Cakes and Meals ; Waterloo Round, and other Corn Cakes, Rape, Cocoa-Nut Cakes, etc., Rice 

 Meal ; Palm-Nut, Maize, and Locust Meal. 



ECONOMY IN CARRIAGE. — H. R. & Co. make a specialty of forwarding articles of English 

 make— both Cakes and Manures— to their clients' stations, direct from the nearest point of manufacture; 

 and goods of foreign import direct from the nearest port of arrival ; thus minimising carriage. 



Of&ces and Works: SKELDERGATE BRIDGE, YORK. 



YORK. 



BOOKS for FARMERS. 



Edited by JAMES MACD0NALO 3 F.R.S.E., Secretary, Highland and Agricultural Society. 

 STEPHENS' BOOK OF THE FARM. 



Fourth Edition, Revised. With over 700 Illustrations and 40 Animal Portraits. 3 

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STEPHENS' CATECHISM OF PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE. 



New Edition, Revised, and largely Re-written, Twenty-second Thousand. With 

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PRINGLE'S LIYE STOCK OF THE FARM. 



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MCOMBIE'S CATTLE AND CATTLE BREEDERS. 



New Edition, Enlarged. With a memoir of the Author. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. 

 WORKS BY PROFESSOR AIKMAN. 



MANURES AND THE PRINCIPLES OF MANURING. 



By C. M. AIKMAN, M.A., D.Sc, &c, Professor of Chemistry, Glasgow Veterinary 

 College ; Examiner in Chemistry, University of Glasgow, &c. Crown 8vo, 6s. 6d. 



JOHNSTON'S ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. 



From the Edition by Sir C. A. CAMERON, M.D., F.R. C.S.I. Revised and Re-written 

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NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION. 



THE WILD RABBIT IN A NEW ASPECT; 



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