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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXII. 
Second Series. 
Statistics : — page 
Meteorology for the year 1885 i-ix 
Eeport on the liay-harvest forecasts for 1885 x-xiii 
Imports of Corn, &c., British Wheat sold, and Average Prices xiv-xix 
Acreage under each description of Crop, Fallow, and Grass ; 
and Number of Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs, in Great Britain 
and Ireland, 1883, 1884, and 1885 xx, xxi 
Number of Beasts exhibited, and the Prices realised for them 
at the Christmas Markets, since 1844 xxii 
Importations and Average Prices of certain Foreign and 
Colonial Productions xxiii 
Quantity of the Dead Meat imported in the three Years, 
1883-5 XXIV 
Statistics of Dairy Produce, and Prices Current .. .. xxv-xxviii 
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I. — Foot-and-Mouth Disease: its History and Teachings. By 
James Howard, Clapham Park, Bedfordshire 1 
II. — Organs of the Animal Body : their Forms and Uses. By 
Professor Brown, of the Agricultural Department of the 
Privy Council 18 
III. — Pasteur and his "Work, from an Agricultural and Veterinary 
point of View. By George Fleming, LL.D., F.R.C.V.S., 
Principal Veterinary Surgeon to the Army 48 
IV. — Eeport on the Daiiy and Stock-Farm Prize Competition, 
1885. By J. Chalmers Morton, Editor of the 'Agricul- 
tural Gazette ' 120 
V. — Farming and Agricultural Training in Eeformatory and 
Industrial Schools, with Notes on Spade-labour. By 
H. M. Jenkins, F.G.S., Secretary of the Society and Editor 
of the ' Journal ' 17 
VI. — Eeport on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Woburn, 
conducted on behalf of the Iioyal Agricultural Society of 
England during the year 1885. By Dr. J. A. Voelcker, B.Sc, 
Consulting Chemist of the Society 236 
VII. — Eeport on the Experiments with Clovers at Woburn. By 
W. Carruthers, F.E.S., Consulting Botanist to the Society 252 
VIII.— The Silo and Silage-stack Competition, 1885-8G. By the 
Judges 259 
IX. — Annual Eeport of the Consulting Entomologist for 1885. 
By Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, F.R.Met.Soc, Dunster Lodge, 
Spriog Grove, Isleworth 311 
