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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXIII. 
Second Series. 
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Prefatory Note i 
Meteorological Reports and Tables, 1886 iii-x 
Hay Harvests Forecasts, 1886 - xi-xiii 
Cora Importations, Sales, and Prices xiv 
British Wheat Eeturns and Prices, 1880-86 xv 
Average Prices of Wheat, Barley, and Oats, in each Week 
of 1886 XVI 
Imports of Corn and Flour, 1882-86 xvii 
Average Prices of Consols, Wheat, and of Meat, and Numher 
of Paupers relieved, &c., in each Quarter, 1884-86 .. .. xviii 
Diagram of Fluctuations in Prices of Wheat, 1886 .. .. xix 
Eeturns of Acreage under Crops, and Number of Cattle, &c., 
in Great Britain and Ireland in 1884-86 xx-xxi 
Beasts Exhibited and Prices realised at Christmas Markets, 
1845-86 XXII 
Average Prices of British Corn, 1867-86 xxii 
Miscellaneous Foreign and Colonial Productions Imported, 
1883-86 xxiii 
Dead Meat Imported, 1884-1886 xxiv 
Butter and Cheese Imports, 1872-86 xxv 
Dairy Produce, 1886 xxvi 
Prices of Butter and Cheese, 1878-87 xxviii 
ABTICLE FAGB 
I. — Large and Small Holdings : a Comparative View. By 
Clare Sewell Read, of Honingham Thorpe, Norwich . . 1 
II. — On Water Supplies suited to Farms and Villages. By 
William Anderson, M.Inst.C.E., Consulting Engineer to 
the Royal Agricultural Society 28 
III. — The Agriculture of Pembrokeshire. By W. Barrow Wall, 
of Pembroke 70 
IV. — Report upon the Spring Show of Thoroughbred Stallions at 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. By Wilham Blew, M.A., of Tiver- 
ton, Tarporley 101 
V. — British Dau-y Farming. Two means of promoting its 
greater prosperity. By James Long, of Graveley Manor, 
Stevenage, Professor of Dairy Farming at the Royal Agri- 
cultural College, Cirencester 123 
VI. — The late Mr. H. M. Jenkins, F.G.S. A Memoir, By 
J. Chalmers Morton, Editor of the ' Agricultural Gazette ' 168 
VII. — Tobacco as a Farm Crop for England. By C. de L. Faunce 
De Laune, of Sharsted Court, Sittingbourne 213 
