CONTENTS OF YOL. VI. 
Second Series. 
fsTATISTICS : — PAGE 
Vital Statistics for the last six months of 18G9, and for 
the first six months of 1870 i, xxiii 
Meteorology ditto ditto iv, xxv 
Imports of Corn, &c., British Wheat sold, and Average 
Prices xi, xrv-xvi, xxx-xxxiii 
Acreage under each description of Crop, Fallow, and Grass ; 
with number of Cattle, Sheeji, and Pigs in Great Britain 
and Ireland, 1867, 1868, 1869 xii, xiii 
Importations of and Average Prices of certain Foreign and 
Colonial Productions xvr-xviir 
Statistics of Dairy Produce, and Prices Current .. .. xix, xxxiii 
Pauperism xxii, xxxvr 
AETICLE PAGE 
I. — Report on the Agriculture of Belgium : the Result of a Journey 
made at the request of the Council by Dr. Augustus Voelcker 
and H. M. Jenkins, F.G.S. {Reporter) 1 
II. — Farm Labourers, their Friendly Societies, and the Poor Law. 
By the Rev. J. Y. Stratton, Rector of Ditton, Kent .. .. 87 
III. — On Straw Chaff. By Samuel Jonas. Letter to H. M. Jenkins, 
Esq 119 
IV. — Reports on Steam Cultivation by Machinery let by the Landlord, 
as practised on the Northumberland Estate of His Grace the 
Duke of Northumberland. By Jos. Snowball, Chief Agent .. 121 
v.— The Potato in Jersey. By C. P. Le Cornu. Prize Essay .. 127 
VI.— Report of the Consulting Chemist for 1869 140 
VII. — Field Experiments on Mangolds. By Dr. Augustus Voelcker . . 150 
VIII. — On Beet-root-Pulp. By Dr. Augustus Voelcker 155 
IX. — Report on Cheshire Dairy-farming. By H. M. Jenkins, F.G.S. 163 
X. — Report on the American Cheese-factory System, and its adapta- 
bility to English Dairy Districts. By H. M. Jenkins, F.G.S. 173 
XI. — On the Treatment of the Reclaimed Bog-land of Whittlesea 
Mere. By W. Wells, M.P 203 
XII. — Village Sanitary Economy. By J. Bailey Denton, M. Inst. C.E., 
Agricultural and Sanitary Engineer 208 
XIII. — Report on the Farm-Prize Competition, 1870. By H. W. 
Keary 251 
XTV. — The Farming of Monmouthshire. By W. Fothergill .. .. 275 
XV. — Report of Experiments upon Wheat, Barley, and Swedes, under- 
taken by Members of the Cirencester Chamber of Agriculture. 
By John Wrightson, F.C.S., Professor of Agriculture in the 
Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester 299 
XVI. — On the Dairy-Factories of Sweden. J3y M. Juhlin-Dannfelt, 
Superintendent of the Experimental Farm and Agricultural 
College at Stockholm 323 
