THESE EXPERIMENTS, IT IS TRUE, ARE NOT EASY; STILL THEY ARE IN THE POWER OF EVERY THINKING HUSBANDMAN, HE WHO ACCOMPLISHES BUT ONE, OF HOWEVER LIMITED APPLICATION, AND TAKES CARE TO REPORT IT FAITHFULLY, ADVANCES THE SCIENCE, AND, CONSEQUENTLY, THE PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE, AND ACQUIRES THEREBY A RIGHT TO THE GRATITUDE OF HIS FELLOWS, AND OF THOSE WHO COME AFTER. TO MAKE MANY SUCH IS BEYOND THE POWER OF MOST INDIVIDUALS, AND CANNOT BE EXPECTED. THE FIRST CARE OF ALL SOCIETIES FORMED FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF OUR SCIENCE SHOULD BE TO PREPARE THE FORMS OF SUCH EXPERIMENTS, AND TO DISTRIBUTE THE EXECUTION OF THESE AMONG THEIR MEMBERS. VAN THAER, Principles of Agriculture. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. CONTENTS OF VOLUME XV. SECOND SERIES. STATISTICS : Meteorology for the year 1878 .. Imports of Corn, &c., British Wheat sold, and Average Prices PAGE I-X XI-XV XVI, XVII ARTICLE L-Report on the Farm-Prize Competition of 1878. By Frederic II.-Report on the System of Cheese-making practised on the Four V.-Report on the Exhibition of Implements at Bristol. By J. .. VI.-Report on the Trials of Sheaf-Binders and Miscellaneous Imple- VIII. Concluding Report on the Experiments at the Brown Institution on Pleuro-Pneumonia. By J. Burdon-Sanderson, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., late Superintendent of the Brown Institution. With an Appendix by W. Duguid, Esq., M.R.C.V.S., late Veterinary Surgeon at the Institution IX.-The Agricultural Features of the Paris Exhibition. By William 73 132 157 X.-Report on the Dairy-Farming of the North-west of France. By H. M. Jenkins, F.G.S., Secretary of the Society, and Editor of the Journal' 278 ARTICLE PAGE 322 By H. Chandos-Pole XL.-The late Sir William Miles, Bart., M.P., Vice-President, and Ex-President of the Society. By J. D. Dent and Sir B. T. Brandreth Gibbs, Vice-President of the Society XII. The late Mr. T. C. Booth, of Warlaby. Gell, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire .. XIII.-Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments conducted at Woburn, on behalf of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, during the Year 1878. By Dr. Augustus Voelcker, F.R.S., Consulting Chemist to the Society XIV.-Annual Report of the Consulting Chemist for 1878. By Dr. .. XV.-Annual Report of the Consulting Botanist for 1878. By W. Additions to the Library in 1878 XIX.-Cow-Keeping by Farm Labourers. By Henry Evershed XXI.-Report of the Senior Steward of Live Stock on the Inter- XXII.-Report on the Exhibition of Horses at Kilburn. By the Hon. XXIII.-Report on the British and Foreign Cattle exhibited at Kilburn. XXIV.-Report on the Exhibition of British and Foreign Sheep, Goats, XXVI.-Report on the Bees, Hives, Honey, and Manipulations with 326 332 346 352 354 357 397 487 497 511 543 555 565 601 640 668 679 By Charles XXVII.-Report upon the Exhibition of Hops at Kilburn. XXVIII.-Report on the Exhibition of Implements at Kilburn. By G. 688 ARTICLE. XXX.-Report on the Trial of Railway Waggons intended for the Conveyance of Fresh Provisions. By John Coleman, of Riccall Hall, York XXXI.-Report of the Judges of Farm Plans sent in for Competition at the London International Exhibition, 1879. By J. Bailey Denton XXXII.-Report upon the Market-Garden and Market Garden Farm PAGE 759 774 832 APPENDIX. PAGE List of Officers of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1879 Report of the Council to the General Meeting, December 12, 1878, i, xlix iii, li v, liii Half-yearly Cash Account from 1st July to 31st December, 1878, Yearly Cash Account from 1st January to 31st December, 1878 London Meeting, 1879: Schedule of Prizes, &c. Guide to the Purchase of Artificial Manures and Feeding Stuffs .. List of Members. DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER. List of Members at the end. The Binder is desired to collect together all the Appendix matter, with Roman numeral folios, and place it at the end of each volume of the Journal, excepting Titles and Contents, and Statistics, &c., which are in all cases to be placed at the beginning of the Volume; the lettering at the back to include a statement of the year as well as the volume; the first volume belonging to 1839-40, the second to 1841, the third to 1842, the fourth to 1843, and so on. In Reprints of the Journal all Appendix matter and, in one instance, an Article in the body of the Journal (which at the time had become obsolete), were omitted; the Roman numeral folios, however (for convenience of reference), were reprinted without alteration in the Appendix matter retained. VOL. XV.-S. S. b |