CONTENTS OF PART L, YOL. VIL 
Second Series. 
Statistics : — page 
Vital Statistics for the last six months of 1870 i-iii 
Meteorology ditto ditto iv-vii 
Imports of Corn, &c., British Wheat sold, and Average Prices viii, ix 
Acreage under each description of Crop, Fallow, and Grass ; 
witli number of Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs in Gi'eat Britain and 
Ireland, 1868, 1869, and 1870 .. ' x, xi 
Importations and Average Prices of certain Foreign and 
Colonial Productions xii-xvi 
Statistics of Dairy Produce, and Prices Current xvii-xx 
Pauperism xx 
I. — The American Butter Factories and Butter Manufacture. By 
X. A. Willard, A.M., of Herkimer, New York. Lecturer at 
the Maine State AgriciUtural College, &c., &c 1 
II. — The Origin and Progress of the Factory System of Cheese- 
making in Derbyshire. By Gilbert Murray, Elvaston, Derby 42 
III. — On Sugar-Beets and Beetroot Distillation. By Dr. Augustus 
Voelcker, F.R.S 60 
IV. — On the Best Mode of preparing Straw-Chaif for Feeding Pur- 
poses. By Dr. Augustus Voelcker, F.K.S 85 
V. — Effects of the Drought of 1870 on some of the Experimental 
Crops at Rothamsted. By J. B. Lawes, Esq., F.R.S., F.C.S., 
and J. H. Gilbert, Ph. D., F.R.S., F.C.S. ^ 91 
VI. — Description of Ordinary and Improved Kilns for Burning 
Lime for Agricultural Purposes. By Charles Turner, C.E. 
Prize Essay 1.32 
VII. — Eeport on some Features of Scottish Agriculture. By H. M. 
Jenkins, F.G.S U» 
VIII. — On the Agricultural Capabilities of the New Forest. By W. C. 
Spooner, of Eling, Southampton 220 
IX. — On the Comparative A:^-iculture of England and Wales. By 
William To^Dley, F.G.S., Geological Survey of England and 
Wales 268 
X. — Annual Eeport of the Consulting Chemist for 1870 284 
XI. — Quarterly Reports of the Chemical Committee 288 
