CONTENTS. 
V 
ARTICLE TAGE 
XXVI. — Report on the Horse-Shoeing Comijetition at Newcastle. 
By Charles Clay, of Walton Grange, Wakefield, Steward 
of Horse-Shoeing 'fiO 
XXVn. — Keijort of the Senior Steward of Implements at Newcastle. 
By Herbert J. Little, of Coldham Hall, Wisbech .. .. 0C3 
XXVIII. — Report on the Trials of Portable Agricultural Steam Engines, 
self-moving or otherwise, at Newcastle. By Dan. Pidgeon, 
Assoc. Inst. C.E., Reporting Judge 607 
XXIX. — Report of the Consulting Engineers on the Trials of Portable 
Agricultural Steam Engines, self-moving or otherwise, at 
Newcastle. By Sir Fredlv. J. Bramwell, M.Inst.C.E.,F.U.S., 
and W. Anderson, M.Inst.C.E G91 
APPENDIX. 
PAGE 
List of Officers of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1887 i, x.xxiii 
Standing Committees for 1887 iii, xxxv 
Report of the Council to the General Meeting, December 9th, 188G v 
Do. Do. May 23rd, 1887 .. xsxvii 
Distribution of Members and Council xii 
Half-yearly Cash Account from 1st July to 31st December, 1886 xiv 
Do. Do. 1st January to 30th June, 1887 xliv 
Yearly Cash Account from 1st January to 31st December, 1886 xvi 
Country Meeting Account : Norwich, 1886 xviii 
List of Stewards and Judges, and Award of Prizes at Newcastle xlvi 
Agricultural Education : Examination Papers xs, cxxv 
Memoranda of Meetings, Payment of Subscriptions, &c. .. xxv, cxxxiii 
Governors' and Members' Chemical Privileges xxvi, cxxxiv 
Guide to the Purchase of Artificial Manures and Feeding Stuffs xxvii, cxxxv 
Instructions for Selecting and Sending Samples for Analysis xsviii, cxxxvi 
Members' Veterinary Privileges .. xsix, cxxxvii 
Members' Botanical Privileges xxxi, cxxxix 
Members' Entomological Privileges xxxii, cxl 
Members' General Privileges cxl 
DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER. 
The Binder is desired to collect together all the Appendix matter, with Roman numeral folios 
and place it at the end of each volume of the Journal, excepting Titles and Contents, and Statistics 
&c., which are in all cases to be placed at the beginning of the Voltmie; the lettering at the back 
to include a statement of the year as well as the volume ; the first volume belonging to 1839-40, 
the second to 1841, the third to 1842, the fourth to 1843, and so on. 
In Keprints of the Journal all Appendix matter and, in one instance, an Article In the body 
of the Journal (^which at the time had become obsolete), were omitted ; the Roman numeral folios, 
however (for convenience of reference), were reprinted without alteration in the Appendix matter 
retained. 
ERRATA, 
In the Report " On Experiments conducted in 1886 by Local Agricultural 
Societies" in the last issue of the 'Journal' (Vol. XXIII. s.s., Part I., 1887), the 
following corrections should be made on line 9 from the bottom of page 268 [the 
Cliloride of Sodium having been stated at ten times the correct amount] : — 
ior Chloride of Sodium .. .. 1 0 94 I 1-03 I 1-08 
read „ „ .. .. \ 0 094 | 0-103 | 0-108 
/or Organic matter and loss .. .. I 7-.36 I 3-70 I 2-46 
read „ .. | 9-206 | 4-627 | 3-432 
VOL. XXIII. — S. S. b 
