CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXV. 
Second Series. 
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Statistics affecting Agricxtltubal Interests « . . . i 
I. The History of a Field newly laid down to Permanent Grass. 
By Sir J. B. Lawes, Bart., LL.D., F.R.S 1 
IT. Grass Experiments at Woburn. By W. Carruthers, F.R.S., 
P.L.S., Consulting Botanist to the Society . . . .25 
III. Report on the Farm Prize Competition in Nottinghamshire, 
Lincolnshire, and part of Derbyshire and Leicestershire in 
1888 ; Classes 2 and 3. By Thomas Stirton, Reporting 
Judge ........... 34 
IV. Report on the Miscellaneous Implements Exhibited at the 
Nottingham Meeting. By Dan. Pidgeon, Assoc.Inst.C.E., 
Reporting Judge 91 
V. Notes on the Thoroughbred Stallions Exhibited at the Spring 
Show of Horses held at the Royal Agricultural Hall in 
February 1889. By the Earl of Coventry . . . .115 
VI. American Cattle Markets and the Dressed Beef Trade, with 
some Statistics of the Live-Stock Trade in the United States. 
By John Clay, jun., Chicago 124 
VII. Fifty Years of Fruit Farming. By Charles Whitehead, F.L.S. 156 
VIII. The Composition of Milk produced on English Dairy Farms. 
By Dr. Paul Vieth, F.C.S., F.I.C 180 
IX. The Growth and Development of the Trade in Frozen Mutton. 
By Major P. G. Craigie 203 
X. Varieties of Wheat and Methods of Improving them. By 
Henry Evershed 240 
XI, On the Growth of Mangolds, Cabbages, Kale, Kohl-Rabi, and 
Silage Green Crops as Substitutes for Turnips, and of Catch 
Crops to precede Roots. By Joseph Darby .... 2G3 
XII. Experiments in making Ensilage during the Wet Season of 
1888. By H. Kains-Jackson 280 
XIII. Report on the Experiments conducted in 1888 by Local Agri- 
cultural Societies in conjunction with the Royal Agricul- 
tural Society of England. By Dr. J. Augustus Voelcker, 
B.A., B.Sc, Consulting Chemist to the Society . . . 287 
XIV. Report on the Field Experiments at Woburn, conducted on 
behalf of the Royal Agricultural Society of England durinsr 
the year 1888. By Dr. J. Augustus Voelcker, B.A., B.Sc, 
Consulting Chemist to the Society . . . , # 297 
