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CONTENTS  OF  PART  I.,  VOLUME  XIX. 
Second  Series. 
Statistics  : — PAGE 
Meteorology  for  the  year  1882  i-xi 
Report  on  the  Hay-harvest  forecasts  for  1882  xn-xv 
Imports  of  Corn,  &c.,  British  Wheat  sold,  and  Average  Prices  xvi-xx 
Number  of  Beasts  exhibited,  and  the  Prices  realised  for  them 
at  the  Christmas  Markets,  since  1843  xxi 
Acreage  under  each  description  of  Crop,  Fallow,  and  Grass ; 
and  Number  of  Cattle,  Sheep,  and  Pigs  in  Great  Britain 
and  Ireland,  1880, 1881,  and  1882  xxn,  xxm 
Importations  and  Average  Prices  of  certain  Foreign  and 
Colonial  Productions  xxiv 
Statistics  of  Dairy  Produce,  and  Prices  Current  ..  ..  xxv-xxix 
ARTICLE  PAGE 
I. — Half-bred  Horses  for  Field  or  Road : their  Breeding  and 
Management.  By  Earl  Cathcart  1 
II. — Shorthorns  in  Scotland  and  Ireland.  By  James  Macdonald, 
Editor  of  ‘ The  Farmers’  Gazette,’  Dublin  55 
III.  — Report  on  Wireworm.  By  Miss  Eleanor  A.  Ormerod, 
Honorary  Consulting  Entomologist  to  the  Society  ..  ..  104 
IV.  — Supplementary  Memoranda  to  the  Report  of  the  Royal  Com- 
mission on  Agriculture  by  certain  of  the  Commissioners  144 
V. — Dairying  in  Denmark.  By  H.  M.  Jenkins,  F.G.S.,  Secretary 
of  the  Society,  and  Editor  of  the  * Journal  ’ 155 
VI.  — Notes  on  Continental  Poultry-keeping.  By  H.  M.  Jenkins, 
F.G.S.,  Secretary  of  the  Society  and  Editor  of  the  ‘ Journal  ’ 184 
VII.  — Diagrams  showing  the  Fluctuations  in  the  recorded  Weekly 
Average  Prices  of  Wheat  from  1863-1882  inclusive.  By 
Henry  Allnutt,  3,  Holland  Road,  Kensington 206 
VIII. — Report  on  the  Field  and  Feeding  Experiments  conducted  at 
Woburn  on  behalf  of  the  Royal  Agricultural  Society  of 
England,  during  the  year  1882.  By  Dr.  Augustus  Voelcker, 
F.R.S.,  Consulting  Chemist  to  the  Royal  Agricultural 
Society 209 
IX. — Annual  Report  of  the  Consulting  Chemist  for  1882  ..  ..  235 
X. — Quarterly  Reports  of  the  Chemical  Committee,  1882  ..  ..  248 
XI. — Annual  Report  of  the  Consulting  Botanist  for  1882.  By  W. 
Carruthers,  F.R.S.  ' 257 
XII. — The  late  C.  E.  Amos,  C.E.,  formerly  Consulting  Engineer 
to  the  Society.  By  Sir  B.  T.  Brandreth  Gibbs,  Vice- 
President  of  the  Society  263 
