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ehiborate series of questions were sent out to experienced potato 
growers, evidently drawn up bj a man having touch of both 
the practical and the botanical side of the question. The volume 
is unusually full also of foreign agriculture ; and Professor De 
Bary is quoted in connection with the potato disease. The 
Vienna Exhibition, and the Prize-farm Competition, and Austrian 
and Hungarian agriculture are among the subjects of these 
pages ; the last two being referred to in a letter from Mr. H. 
S. Thompson when he was travelling as a young man in those 
countries — which is quoted in the sympathetic memorial notice 
of him written by Lord Cathcart. 
In 1875 there was a long report by Mr. Jenkins on the agri- 
culture of Sweden and Norway, occupying 100 pages. Its table 
of contents includes the physical aspects of the country, its 
general agricultural system, cultivation, harvesting ; live-stock, 
horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs; dairying, farm-labour, agri- 
cultural institutions, taxation — a most elaborate and complete 
report ; one of the first of those by which the author opened the 
eyes of English agriculturists to the fact that they had much 
to learn from other countries. Here for the first time the 
revolving butter-worker is made known to English dairies; and 
it has since had much to do with good butter-making here. I 
have also the note-book of this year before me, containing the 
material for his report collected day by day as he travelled 
through the country — a better packed series of little pages never 
before contained so much agricultural information. There are 
within the size of an ordinary pocket note-book complete 
accounts of more than 30 different farms in the countries visited. 
The general aspect of the country through which he passed is 
described ; detailed particulars of dairy management and of 
field and general farm and estate management are given in all 
these instances. Farms of 500 to 700 acres and upwards ; and 
smaller farms, peasant farms, large estates, royal farms, farms of 
various sizes — of 2 to 4 horses, 10 to 20 cows, 50 to 100 " ton- 
neland," — 1 horse per 100 Norwegian malle ; 1 acre, we are told, 
is 4^ Norwegian malle. Off Norwegian farms in general not 
more than 2Z. to 3/. per acre are got annually ; off the royal 
larms it is about double this. A particularly detailed and 
interesting account is given of Mr. Swartz's farm at Hofgarden, 
near Wadstena. Barley, sugar-beet, potatoes, peas, fodder (such 
as vetches, mustard, mixed oats and barley), bare fallow also : — 
all these are described, A large dairy of 150 cross-bred cows, 
elaborate tables of expenditure, and cost of calf at 4 months, 
8 months, 12 months, IG months, 2 years old — the wages of 
labour and the details of cultivation — are given in surprising 
detail. Mr. Dickson's farm at Kyleberg is described : turnips, 
