790 Tlie End of the Second Series of ihe Journal. 
Ensilage, which came suddenly to the front in this country 
about 1882-3, was promptly taken vip in the Journal, a report 
by Mr. Jenkins on its practice, and an article by Dr. A. Voelcker 
on its chemistry, appearing in Vol. XX. In Vol. XXII. also 
appeared a lengthy report of the Judges on the competition for 
Sir Massey Lopes's prizes for silos and silage-stacks, and the 
subject has been brought down to date by Mr. Kains-Jackson 
in the first part of the present volume. 
Another subject to which the Second Series has given 
much prominence is that of the improvement and extension 
of dairying in this country. The reports by the late Secretary 
on Continental Dairy-farming drew attention both to the de- 
ficiencies of home practice and to the enterprise of foreign 
competitors. The articles by Mr. John Chalmers Morton on 
" Town Milk " (Vol. IV.), and by Mr. James Long on the making 
of soft cheese and the growth of heavy forage crops for milk- 
production (Vol. XXIII.), both aroused considerable attention 
at the time of their appearance. 
Nor must it be forgotten that the Working Dairy, which is 
now so popular a feature of almost every agricultural show, 
was initiated by this Society at the International Exhibition at 
Kilburn, and that more recently the Society has instituted for 
the award of prizes in the Dairy Classes, milking tests, the 
reports on which by Dr. Voelcker have added much to the 
interest of this department of the work of the Journal. 
Among other articles in which the Journal has departed 
from the beaten tracks and laid down new lines on which 
British agriculture might develop under the changeful condi- 
tions of the times, may be noted those by Mr. Charles White- 
head on vegetable and fruit-farming (Vol. XVIII.), on the 
progress of fruit-farming (Vol. XIX.), and on fifty years of fruit- 
farming (Vol. XXV.), and that by Mr. D. Pidgeon in Vol. 
XXIV. on the new and — in America — important industry of 
fruit-evaporation. 
The history of the Journal in connection with agricultural 
mechanics is in the main comprised in the reports written by 
experts on the implements exhibited at the successive Country 
Meetings of the Society. There has not indeed been an agri- 
cultural implement of any note or merit produced or invented 
during the past quarter of a century which has not been fully 
described in the Journal ; and the reports on the exhaustive 
trials of implements competing for the Society's prizes and 
medals have ranked as the standard authorities on the subjects 
dealt with. Amongst these reports may especially be mentioned 
those by Messrs. Howai'd Reed, J. A. Clarke, and John Coleman, 
