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to 571 for the whole twelve months of 1905, the total being 
41 in excess of the number analysed in 1904. For the eleven 
months subsequently the number of samples has been 507. 
For the Derby Show, analyses of selected samples of Cider 
and Perry were made at the Society’s laboratory, and also a 
large number of milk analyses in connection with the awards 
in the milk trials. 
41. The Woburn Field Experiments continue to show very 
interesting results, and the Farm has been visited by a larger 
number of people than in previous years. The effects of the 
use of lime on this soil are, in particular, very forcibly 
illustrated. Trials of different varieties of Clover and Lucerne 
have also been undertaken. As with the harvest of 1906 
thirty years’ work has been completed, the occasion is 
thought opportune for the modification, in some way, of the 
Continuous Wheat and Barley experiments, with the view of 
making them simpler and bringing them more into line with 
practical farming. At the Pot-Culture Station, the Hills’ 
Experiments have been carried a stage further, and other 
experiments on inoculation for leguminous crops have been 
undertaken for the Board of Agriculture. An exhibit illustrating 
some of the principal features brought out in the Woburn Field 
Experiments was sent to the Milan Exhibition, for which 
the Society was awarded a Grand Prix. Illustrative specimens 
from the Pot-Culture Station were also exhibited in the 
Agricultural Education section of the Derby Show. 
42. Since the last Annual Report of the Consulting Botanist 
there have been 206 inquiries dealt with from Members of 
the Society. The dry season has been unfavourable to the 
growth of parasitic fungi ; only twenty-two cases of plants 
injured by these parasites have been investigated. The 
quality of seeds both as to purity and germination has been 
satisfactory, though one sample of broccoli seed consisted of only 
dead seeds, and the seeds of Wavy Hair Grass {Air a flexuosa 
Linn.), which is but a weed in good pastures, were offered to a 
Member for Golden Oat Grass. Farmers continue to suffer 
seriously from purchasing mixtures for pasture which are too 
frequently the medium for introducing worthless grasses and 
injurious weeds. 
43. From the applications received by the Zoologist during 
the past six months, most of the ordinary pests would appear 
to have been particularly active, but not many of the cases in 
which advice was sought were of an unusual character. Among 
fruit pests the continued extension of the ravages of the Pear 
midge is to be noted, and a bad case of attack by the currant 
bud moth ( Incurvaria capitella ) occurred, which was utilised 
to advance to some extent our knowledge of the life-history 
