Contents  of  Volume  70. 
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Statistics  affecting  British  Agricultural  Interests  . . . .396 
The  Weather  of  the  past  Agricultural  Year  .....  406 
By  Frederick  J.  Brodie,  F.R.  Met.  Soc. 
Rainfall,  Temperature,  and  Bright  Sunshine  during  1909  . . 410 
The  Rainfall  of  1909  411 
NOTES,  COMMUNICATIONS  and  REVIEWS. 
The  Old  Gloucestershire  Breed  of  Cattle  . . . .415 
Seed  Potatoes  . . . . . . .419 
By  H.  Henshaw. 
Rural  Education  . . . . . .421 
Destruction  of  Thistles  .........  422 
By  P.  Hedworth  Foulkes. 
Fertiliser  and  Manures,  by  A.  D.  Hall  ......  423 
Milk  Testing,  by  C.  W.  Walker-Tisdale  ......  425 
Garrett  I’aylor  ..........  426 
APPENDIX. 
List  of  Council  of  Royal  Agricultural  Society  of  England  . i 
Chief  Officials  of  the  Society  .......  ii 
Distribution  of  Governors  and  Members  of  the  Society,  and  of 
Ordinary  Members  of  the  Council  .....  iii 
Table  showing  the  Number  of  Governors  and  Members  in  each 
Year  from  the  Establishment  of  the  Society  ...  iv 
Financial  Statement  by  the  Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee  v 
Trust  Funds  held  by  the  Royal  Agricultural  Society  ...  vii 
Balance-sheet  for  1909,  with  appended  Statements  of  Ordinary 
Income  and  Expenditure  and  of  Receipts  and  Expenditure 
at  the  Gloucester  Show,  1909  ......  viii 
Statement  showing  Distribution  of  Prizes  at  Gloucester  Show  . xvi 
Minutes  of  the  Council  Meetings  in  1909  .....  xvii 
February  3,  xvii  ; March  3,  xviii ; April  7,  xix  ; May  5, 
xxi ; June  2,  xxi  ; June  24,  xxii  ; July  28,  xxviii  ; 
November  3,  xxix  ; December  8,  xxx. 
Proceedings  at  the  General  Meeting,  June  24,  1909  . . . xxiv 
Proceedings  at  the  Annual  General  Meeting,  December  8,  1909.  xxxii 
Officials  and  Judges  at  the  Gloucester  Show,  1909  . . . xxxix 
Awards  of  Prizes  at  Gloucester,  1909  .....  xliii 
Prize  List  for  Liverpool  Show  of  1910.  .....  cxvi 
Index  to  Volume  70  . . . . . . . . cxxvi 
