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CONTENTS OF VOL. XV. 
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I. — On Trunk Drainage. By John Algernon Clarke. Prize Essay 1 
II. — On the Uselessness of Bearing-Reins. By Viscount Downe .. 73 
III. — On the Hereditary Diseases of Cattle. By Finlay Dun, Jun., 
V.S., Lecturer on Materia Medica, &c., at the Edinburgh 
Veterinary College. Prize Essay 76 
IV. — On Light-Land Farming. By John Haxton. Prize Essay . . 88 
V. — On Finger-and-Toe in Root Crops. By James Buckman, 
F.G.S., F.L.S., Professor of Geology and Botany, Royal 
Agricultural College, Cirencester 125 
VI. — On the Use of Town Sewage as Manure. By J. Thomas Way, 
Consulting Chemist to the Royal Agricultui'al Society of 
England 135 
VII. — On the Sjiecies of J3gilops of the South of France, and their 
Transformation into Cultivated Wheat. By M. Esprit 
Fabre, of Agde. (Translated from the French) .. .. 167 
VIII. — -Description of Hollow Brick Roofs, as constructed on the Estate 
of Earl Grey, at Howick, &c., and as partly illustrated in 
the accompanying Sketches. By Robert Dunn .. .. 181 
IX. — Experiment with Nitrate of Soda and Guano on a Peat Bog. 
By James Dyce Nicol 185 
X. — On the Farming of Oxfordshire. By Clare Sewell Read. Prize 
Report 189 
XI. — On the Teeth of the Ox, Sheep, and Pig, as indicative of the 
Age of the Animal ; being the substance of two Lectures 
delivered before the Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
By James Beart Simonds, Professor of Cattle Pathology in 
the Royal Veterinary College 276 
XII. — Report on the Exhibition of Implements at the Lincoln Meeting 
of the Society, 1854. By Anthony Hamond 363 
XIII. — Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at the Lincoln Meeting 
of the Society, 1854. By Charles Barnett 379 
XIV. — On Parturient Fever in Ewes, " Giddiness accompanying Par- 
turition." By Isaac Seaman. Prize Essay 383 
XV. — Farming of Dorsetshire. By Louis H. Ruegg. Prize Report 389 
XVI. — Prize Plan of Double-Cottages for Farm-Labourers, with Spe- 
cifications, &c. By George Arnold, Dolton, Crediton .. 455 
^5 XVII. — -Experiments on Feeding Sheep witli Oilcake, by Members of 
CD the Tamworth Agricultural-Chemistry Association .. .. 460 
XVIIl. — The Natural History and Agricultural Economy of the British 
Grasses. By James Buckman, F.G.S., F.L.S., &c., Pro- 
* fessor of Geology and Botany in the Royal Agricultural 
College. Prize Essay 4G2 
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