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appearing in Vol. III., on the tten burning question of steam 
cultivation ; Mr. J. A. Clarke's report in Vol. VII. ou the great 
trials of steam-cultivating machinery at Wolverhampton in 1871; 
the report by Mr. (now Sir Frederick) Bramwell and Mr. James 
Easton on the trials of traction engines in the same year; by 
Mr. C. Gay Roberts in Vol. VIII. on the trials of threshing- 
machines at Cardiff in 1872 ; by Messrs. F. J. Bramwell and 
W. Menelaus in Vol. IX. on the trials of portable steam-engines 
also held at Cardiff" ; by Mr. John Coleman in Vol. IX. on. the 
trials of ploughs at Hull in 1873 ; by Mr. G. Purves Smith 
in Vol. X. on the trials of drills and carts and waggons at 
Bedford in 1871 ; by Mr. John Hemsley in Vol. XI. on the 
trials of mowing and hay-making machines at Taunton in 1875 ; 
by Mr. J. Algernon Clarke in A^ol. XIII. on the trials of reaping- 
machines at Leamington in 1876 ; by Mr. J. Hannam in Vol. 
XIV., Mr. John Coleman in Vols. XV. and XVIII., and Mr. 
Thomas Bell in Vol. XXI., on the trials of sheaf-binders at 
Liverpool in 1877, Bristol in 1878, Derby in 1881, and Shrews- 
bury in 1884; by Mr. Wm. Little in Vol. XVIII. ou the trials 
of hay-di'yers and exhaust fans at Reading in 1882 ; by Mr. D. 
Pidgeon, Sir Frederick Bramwell, and Mr. William Anderson 
in Vol. XXIII. on the trials of portable agricultural steam- 
engines at Newcastle in 1 887 ; and by Mr. Pidgeon in Vol. XXIV. 
on the trials of hay and straw presses at Nottingham in 1888. 
While the practice and science of agriculture have received 
due attention, what may be termed the ethics of agriculture 
have not been overlooked. Agricultural education, for example, 
has been the subject of numerous articles, and the condition of 
the agricultural labourer has been discussed in papers by Mr. Dent 
(Vol. VII.), Mr. H. J. Little (Vol. XIV), and others. Mr. Dent 
recorded in Vol. X. some of the agricultural facts of the Census of 
1871, a task which was performed for the Census of 1881 by 
Mr. S. B. L. Druce(Vol. XXL). Noteworthy articles, too, were 
those by Mr. Clare Sewell Read on Large and Small Farms, 
and by Mr. Albert Pell on the Making of the Land in England, 
both of which appeared in Vol. XXIII. 
A vivid picture of the general condition of English agricul- 
ture ten years ago is contained in the Memoir which was pre- 
pared by the Society for the International Agricultural Congress 
held at Paris in 1878, and which appropriately found a place in 
Vol. XIV. of the Journal. The " General View of British Agri- 
culture," contributed to this memoir by Sir James Caird, has 
since been reproduced by its accomplished author in an expanded 
form, and is justly regarded as one of the classics on the subject. 
The other articles appearing in the memoir were papers on the 
