CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI. an: 
I. — Agriculture of Nottinghamshire. By R. W. Corringham. 
Prize Report ........ 1 
II. — On the Tenant's Right in Unexhausted Improvements, ac- 
cording to the Custom of North Lincohishire. By G. M. 
Williams, Agent of the Earl of Yarborough . .44 
III. — On Securing to the Outgoing Tenant a Claim in Unexhausted 
Improvements. From the Loughborough Agricultural 
Society ......... 46 
IV. — An Experimental Inquiry into the Theory of the Action, and 
the Practical Application, of Bones as a Manure for the 
Turnip Crop. By John Hannam, Hon. Mem. of the New 
York State Agricul. Soc, Author of the 'Economy of 
Waste Manures,' &c. &c. &c. Prize Essay . . 49 
V. —Bones and Sulphuric Acid. By W. C. Spooner . . .71 
VI. — On Fattening Cattle. By George Dobito. Prize Essay . 74 
VII. — On Reclaiming Heath Land. By John Watson, jun., Land 
Agent, Kendal, Westmoreland. Prize Essay . . 79 
VIII. — A detailed Account of the making of Cheshire Cheese. By 
Henry White, Land Agent and Surveyor, Warrington. 
Prize Essay . . . . . . . . 102 
IX. — On the Cost of Drainage. By Josiah Parkes, Consulting 
Engineer to the Society . . . . . .125 
X. — Letter on Deep Draining. By the Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot 129 
XI. — Observations on the Natural History and Economy of various 
Insects affecting the Corn-Crops, including a Saw-Fly, 
the Hessian Fly, the Wheat-Midge, and the Barley- 
Midge. By John Curtis, F.L.S., Corresponding Member 
of the Imperial and Royal Georgofili Society of Florence, 
of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, &c. 131 
XII.— On One-Horse Carts. By E. Bowly. Prize Essay , .156 
XIII. — On the Prevention of Curl and Dry-Rot in Potatoes. By 
H. S. Thompson 161 
XIV. — Comparison of Guano with other Manures. By David 
^ Barclay, M.P 175 
2 XV.— On the St. John's-day Rye. By Ph. Pusey, M.P. . . 1 77 
XVI. — On a variety of Rye as Green Fodder. By Robert Baker . 1 79 
XVII. — An Account of Improvement of a Shaking Bog at Meare in 
aC Somersetshire. Bv Erasmus Galton . . . .182 
