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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XX. 
Second Series. 
Statistics : — 
Meteorology for tlie year 1883 i-ix 
Report on the Hay-harvest forecasts for 1883 x-xii 
Imports of Corn, &c., British Wheat sold, and Average Prices xiii-xviii 
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, 1881, 1882, and 1883 xx, xxi 
Importations and Average Prices of certain Foreign and 
Colonial Productions xxii 
Statistics of Dairy Produce, and Prices Current ., ,. xxiii-xxviii 
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L— The Agricultural Holdings (England) Act, 1883. By 
Frederick Clifford, of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at- 
Law 1 
II. — Improvement of the Plants of the Farm. By Henry 
Evershed 77 
III. — Some Field Experiments on the Growth of Turnips, at 
Eusper, Horsham. By Bernard Dyer, F.C.S., F.I.C. .. 113 
IV. — Report on the practice of Ensilage, at Home and Abroad. 
By H. M. Jenkins, F.G.S., Secretary of the Society and 
Editor of the ' Journal ' 126 
V. — On the Domestic Veterinary Treatment of the Animals of 
the Farm. By Professor G. T. Brown, of the Agricultural 
Department of the Privy Council 246 
VI. — On the Cultivated Potato. By Earl Cathcart 266 
VII. — Report on the Competition for Seed Wheat, 1883. By Wm. 
Carruthers, F.R.S., Consulting Botanist to the Society ,. 300 
VIII. — Notes on Cart Horses. By James Howard, M.P., of Clapham 
Park, Bedfordshire 309 
IX. — Reports of the Honorary Consulting Entomologist. By 
\Eleanor A. Ormerod, F.R. Met. Soc, Dunster Lodge, Isle- 
worth, near London 324 
X. — Annual Report of the Consulting Botanist for 1883. By W. 
Carruthers, F.R.S 332 
