CONTENTS OF PAET L, VOLUME XXI. 
Second Series. 
Statistics : — p^g" 
Meteorology for the year 188-t i-viii, xii 
Eeport on. the Hay-harvest forecasts for 1884 ix-xi 
Imports of Corn, &c., British Wheat sold, and Average Prices xni-xvin 
Number of Beasts exhibited, and the Prices realised for them 
at the Christmas Markets, since 1843 xix 
Acreage under each description of Crop, Fallow, and Grass ; 
and Number of Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs, in Great Britain 
and Ireland, 1882, 1883, and 1884 XX, xxi 
Importations and Average Prices of certain Foreign and 
Colonial Productions xxir 
Quantity of the Dead Meat imported in the three Years, 
1882-4 xxiii 
Statistics of Dairy Produce, and Prices Current ,. ,. xxv-xxix 
ABTICLE PAGE 
I. — Eeport on Miscellaneous Implements at Shrewsbmy, and of 
the trials of Machines for cutting and elevating Materials 
to be preserved in Silos, and of Sheaf-Binding Machinery. 
By Thomas Bell, Hedley H<ill, Marley Hill, Newcastle-on- 
Tyne 1 
II. — Sugar as a Food for Stock. By Sir J. B. Lawes, Bart., 
LL.D., F.R.S 81 
III. — Franco-Swiss Dairy-Farming. By H. Ling Both .. 86 
IV. — The Alteration in the Distribution of the Agricultural Popu- 
lation of England and Wales, between the Returns of the 
Census of 1871 and 1881. By S. B. L. Druce, Barrister- 
at-Law 96 
V. — Eeport on Agricultural Education : — a Summary. By Herbert 
J. Little, Coldham Hall, Wisbech 126 
VI. — The Agriculture of Glamorganshire. By W. Little, of 
Aberaman, near Aberdare 165 
sS' VII. — Eeport on an Outbreak of Abortion and Premature Birth in 
^ the Ewe-Flocks of Lincolnshire during the Winter and 
^ Spring of 1883. By J. Wortley Axe, Professor of Patho- 
» — ■ logy> &c-> at the Eoyal Veterinary College 199 
VIII. — Anajmia in Sheep, known also by the terms " Wasting," 
" Hunger Eot," " Blood Rot," &c. By Professor Eobert- 
son, Principal of the Eoyal Veterinary College 
C*"' IX. — Canadian Agriculture. Part I. — Prairie Farming. By Pro- 
fessor W. Fream, B.Sc. Lond., F.L.S., F.G.S., College of 
Agriculture, Downton, Salisbury 217 
