IV CONTENTS. 
ARTICIJt PAGE 
X. — Report on the Health of the Animals of the Farm, 1876. 
By W. Duguid, M.R.C.V.S., Veterinary Inspector of the 
Society 207 
XL— The Outbreak of Cattle-Plague 211 
XII. — Report on an Outbreak of Splenic Apoplexy near Chelmsford. 
By W. Duguid, M.R.C.V.S., Veterinary Inspector of the 
Society 241 
XIII. — Annual Report of the Consulting Botanist for 1876. By W. 
Carruthers, F.R.S 243 
XIV. — Report on the Trials of Reaping Machines at Leamington, and 
on Miscellaneous Inventions at the Birmingham Show. 
By J. Algernon Clarke 246 
Additions to the Library in 1876 292 
XV. — Report on the American and Canadian Meat Trade. By J. P. 
Sheldon, of Sheen, Ashbourne, Professor of Agriculture in 
the Agricultural College, Cirencester 295 
XVI. — The American Cattle Trade. By Professor H. E. Alvord, of 
Easthampton, Massachusetts 356 
XVII. — Village Clubs. By Sir E. C. Kerrison, Bart 375 
XVIIL— The Suffolk County Medical Club. By Sir E. C. Kerrison, 
Bart 378 
XIX. — The Rothamsted Allotment Club. By J. Bennet Lawes, 
F.R.S 387 
XX. — The Prize System as applied to Small Farmers in Ireland. 
By Professor Baldwin, Ulasnevin, Dublin 394 
XXI. — Clover Seed and its Impurities. By William Carruthers, 
F.R.S., Consulting Botanist to the Society 434 
XXII. — The International Dairy Exhibition at Hamburg, 1877. By 
H. M. Jenkins, F.G.S., Secretary of the Society .. .. 444 
XXIII. — Further Notes of Experiments at the Brown Institution on 
the Communication of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease from 
Diseased to Healthy Animals. By W. Duguid, M.R.V.C.S., 
Veterinary Surgeon to the Institution 460 
XXIV. — Report upon the Liverpool Prize- Farm Competition in Lanca- 
shire 1 , Cheshire, and North Wales, 1877 — Arable Farms. 
By Samuel D. Shiriff, Saltcoats, Drem 462 
XXV. — Report on the Liverpool Prize-Farm Competition, 1877 — 
Dairy and Stock Farms. By John Chalmers Morton, 
Northchurch, Berkhamstead 500 
XXVI. — Report on the Liverpool Meeting. By the Hon. Wilbraham 
Egerton, M.P. (Senior Steward) 526 
XXVn. — Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Liverpool. By W. 
Macdonald, Editor of the ' North British Agriculturist ' .. 529 
XXVTIL — Report on the Exhibition of Implements at Liverpool, with 
a Statement of Receipts and Admissions at the Country 
Meetings from 1852 to 1877 inclusive. By J. Bowen Jones, 
of Ensdon House, Shrewsbury (Senior Steward) .. .. 576 
