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CONTENTS. 
ABTICI E PAGE 
XLII. — On converting a Moory Hill-side into Catch Meadow. By 
John Roals, of Brendon Farm, Somersetshire. Prize 
Essay 518 
XLIII. — On the Cultivation and Preparation of Gorse as Food for 
Cattle. By Sandham EUy 523 
XLIV. — Experiment on the Action of Dung and of some Arti- 
ficial Manures upon Beet-root. By Ph. Pusey, M.P. . 528 . 
XLV. — Two Lectures on the Nature and Causes of the Decay in 
Potatoes. By Dr. Lyon Playfair, Consulting Chemist 
to the Society 532 
Miscellaneous Communications and Notices: — 
VIIL — Report on the Wheat selected for Trial at Southampton, and 
on other Wheats. By W. Miles, M.P. . . .566 
IX. — Report of Prize White Wheat selected at Southampton, and 
on two other sorts. By Earl Spencer . . . 572 
X. — On Deep Draining. By the Right Hon. C. Arhuthnot . 573 
XL — Analysis of a Marl which, having been used for Manure, 
rendered the subsequent Application of Bones inope- 
rative. By Dr. Lyon Playfair .... 575 
XIL — On the application of Liquid Manure to a new variety of 
Italian Rye Grass. By W. Dickinson , . . 575 
XIIL — Analysis of the Soil and Subsoil of a very Productive Field 
near Sutton, in Norfolk. By Dr. Lyon Playfair . 577 
XIV.— On the Jerusalem Potato or Artichoke (Helianihus tubero- 
sus). From Boussingault's Rural Economy 
. 578 
XV. — Comparative Trial of Superphosphate and Guano. By R. 
D. 
Drewitt ....... 
, 581 
APPENDIX. 
Council and Officers of the Royal Agricultural Society of England 
XV 
Honorary Members ........ 
xvi 
Report of the Council (General Meeting, Dec. 13, 1845) 
xvii 
General Meetings of 1846 ....... 
xxiv 
Statement of Accounts ........ 
XXV 
Award of Prizes at the Shrewsbury Meeting ... I 
xxvi 
Commendations ......... 
xxxii 
Prizes for Cattle, &c., at the Newcastle-on-Tyne Meeting, 1846 . 
xxxiv 
Regulations for the Exhibition ...... 
xxxviii 
Prizes for Implements at the Newcastle-on-Tyne Meeting, 1846 
xli 
Regulations for Exhibition of Inii)lements . . . . . 
xlii 
Essays and Reports on Various Subjects ..... 
xlvii 
Rules of Competition for Prize Essays . . . . . 
li 
LIST OF PLATES. 
Geological Map of Cornwall, to face page .... 
. 462 
Plates N and 0, Insects affecting Corn Crops, &c., to face page 
. 517 
