THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. SECOND SERIES. VOLUME THE SIXTH. PRACTICE WITH SCIENCE. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 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. VON THAER, Principles of Agriculture. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, DUKE STREET, STAMFORD STREET, AND CHARING CROSS. CONTENTS OF VOL. VI. SECOND SERIES. Imports of Corn, &c., British Wheat sold, and Average Acreage under each description of Crop, Fallow, and Grass; I.-Report on the Agriculture of Belgium: the Result of a Journey II.-Farm Labourers, their Friendly Societies, and the Poor Law. By the Rev. J. Y. Stratton, Rector of Ditton, Kent III.-On Straw Chaff. By Samuel Jonas. Letter to H. M. Jenkins, 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 VII.-Field Experiments on Mangolds. By Dr. Augustus Voelcker.. 150 VIII.-On Beet-root-Pulp. By Dr. Augustus Voelcker 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 XII.-Village Sanitary Economy. By J. Bailey Denton, M. Inst. C.E., XIV. The Farming of Monmouthshire. By W. Fothergill XV.-Report of Experiments upon Wheat, Barley, and Swedes, under- taken by Members of the Cirencester Chamber of Agriculture. XVI.-On the Dairy-Factories of Sweden. By M. Juhlin-Dannfelt, XVII. On a Peculiar Kind of Swedish Whey Cheese, and on Norwegian Goats'-Milk Cheese. By Dr. Augustus Voelcker, F.R.S. 333 XVIII.-On Recent Improvements in the Cultivation and Management XIX.-An Account of an Embankment and Cutting in the Parishes of Standlake, Northmoor, Stanton Harcourt, and Eynsham, in the County of Oxford, made to protect the District from XX. The Agriculture of the Scilly Isles. By Lawrence Scott, M.R.A.C., and Harry Rivington, F.G.S... XXI.-Field Experiments on Potatoes. By Dr. Augustus Voelcker, XXII.-On the Composition and Practical Value of Several Samples of Native Guano prepared by the A B C Sewage Process of the Native Guano Company. By Dr. Augustus Voelcker, F.R.S. 415 XXIII.—Quarterly Reports of the Chemical Committee XXIV. Report of the Governors of the Royal Veterinary College to the 533 XXVI.-Report on Live Stock at Oxford. By D. R. Davies, Senior Steward APPENDIX. List of Officers of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1870-71 Reports of the Council to the General Meetings, December 9, 1869, Cash Accounts and Balance-sheets, from 1st July to Dec. 31, 1869, and from 1st January to 30th June, 1870 Yearly Cash Account, from 1st January to December 31, Country Meeting Account, Manchester, 1869 Memoranda of Meetings, Payment of Subscription, &c. Oxford Meeting, 1870: Schedule of Prizes List of Judges and Award of Prizes Conditions relating to the Educational Examinations, 1870 DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER. The Binder is desired to collect together all the Appendix matter, with Roman numeral folios, and In Reprints of the Journal all Appendix matter and, in one instance, an Article in the body of VITAL STATISTICS:-POPULATION; BIRTHS; DEATHS; EMIGRATION; METEOROLOGY; IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN; SALES OF BRITISH WHEAT; PRICES OF CORN AND OTHER PRODUCE; AND PAUPERISM, &c. [The facts are derived chiefly from the Reports of the REGISTRAR-GENERAL; the Meteorological Reports of Mr. GLAISHER; the Returns of the BOARD OF TRADE, and of the INSPECTOR-General of Imports and EXPORTS.], POPULATION of the UNITED KINGDOM, estimated to the middle of the year 1869 (exclusive of islands in the British seas) :— BIRTHS and DEATHS in the LAST SIX MONTHS of 1869. Summer Quarter (July, August, September).-Births registered were 190,132. The annual birth-rate of the season to 1000 persons living was 34-45; the average derived from ten corresponding summers of 1859-68 was 34.04. Deaths registered were 114,654. The annual death-rate of the season per 1000 of population was 20-77; the average derived from ten corresponding summers of 1859-68 was 20-63. The mortality of the quarter experienced by the people inhabiting the chief towns was, at the annual rate, per 1000 of population, of 23-32, the average being 22.90. In districts that comprise small towns, villages, and open country, it was 17-36, the average being 17.79. The people married during the quarter at the annual rate of 15.88 per 1000 of population, while the average of ten preceding quarters was 16-37. The marriage-rate, therefore, was slightly below the average, but while circumstances of an exceptional character caused VOL. VI.-S. S. A |