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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXI. 
Second Series. 
Statistics : — '^^^ 
Meteorology for the year ISS-i i-viii, xii 
Report on the Hay-harvest forecasts for 1884 ix-xi 
Imports of Corn, &c., British Wheat sold, and Average Prices xiii-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 xxii 
Quantity of the Dead Meat imported in the three Years, 
1882-4 XXIII 
Statistics of Dairy Produce, and Prices Current .. ,, xxv-xxix 
ARTICLE PAGE 
I.— I 'cport on Miscellaneous Implements at Shrewsburj', and of 
the trials of Machines for cutting and elevating Materials 
to he preserved in Silos, and of Sheaf- Binding Machinery. 
By Thomas Bell, Hedley Hall, Marley Hill, Newcastle-on- 
'lyue 1 
11.— Sugar as a Food for Stock. By Sir J. B. Lawes, Bart., 
LL.D., F.E.S 81 
III. — Franco-Swiss Dairy-Farming. By H. Ling Roth .. ., 80 
IV. — Tlic Alteration in the Oistribution 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 9G 
V. — Report on Agricultural Education: — a Summary. Part I. 
By Herbert J. Little, Coldham Hall, Wisbech 12C 
VI. — The Agriculture of Glamorganshire. By W. Little, of 
Aberaman, near Aberdare 165 
VII. — Report 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 Royal "Veterinary College 190 
VIII. — Ana;mia in Sheep, known also by the terms " Wasting," 
" Hunger Rot," " Blood Rot," &c. By Professor Robert- 
son, Principal of the Royal Veterinary College 217 
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 
