THE

JOURNAL

OF THE

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

OF ENGLAND.

VOLUME THE FOURTEENTH.

PRACTICE WITH SCIENCE.

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1853.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

THESE EXPERIMENTS, IT IS TRUE, ARE NOT XASY ; STILL THEY ARE IN THE POWER OF EVERY
THINKING HUSBANDMAN. HE WHO ACCOMPJ.ISHES BUT ONE, OF HOWEVER LIMITED APPLICATION, AND
TAKES CARE TO REPORT IT FAITHFULLY, ADVANCES THE SCIENCE, AND, CONSEQUENTLY, THE PRACTICE
OF AGRICULTURE, AND ACQUIBUS THEREBY A RIGHT TO THE ORATITUDE OF HIS FELLOWS, AND OF THOSE
WHO COME ATTER. 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 OY THESE
AMONG THEIR MEMBERS.

VON THAER, Principles of Agriculture.

LONDON :-Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and Sons, Stamford Street.

CONTENTS OF PART I., VOL. XIV,

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I.-Relations of Geology to Agriculture in North-Eastern America.

No. II. By James F. W. Johnston, F.R.S.L. & E.; Hon,

Member of the Royal Agricultural Society

1

II.—Experiments with Nitrate of Soda, Guano, &c. By Lieut.-

Col. Sir J. M. Tylden

15

III.—The Farming of Derbyshire. By John Jephson Rowley.

Prize Report

17

IV.-A Method of preserving Corn-Stacks from Damage by Rooks.

By the Rev. T'homas Burroughes

67

V:-On the Production of Butter. By Louis H. Ruegg

68

VI.-On the improved Methods of Cropping and Cultivating Light

Land. By Sydney Evershed, Albury, Guildford. Prize Essay 79

VII.-Notes on the Geology of the Keythorpe Estate, and its re-

lations to the Keythorpe System of 'Draining. By Joshua

Trimmer, F.G.S.

96

VIII.-On the Hereditary Diseases of Horses. By Finlay Dun, Jun.,

V.S., Lecturer on Materia Medica, &c., at the Edinburgh

Veterinary College. Prize Essay

106

IX.--Report upon the Rye and Derwent Drainage. By John Hen-

derson

129

X.-On Mr. Bickford's Method of Irrigation. From Mr. Archer . 153

XI.-A detailed Report of the Drainage by Steam-power of a Portion

of Martin Mere, Lancashire. By Henry White, Land Agent,

&c., Warrington

156

XII.—On the relative Nutritive and Fattening Properties of different

Natural and Artificial Grasses. By J. Thomas Way, Con-

sulting Chemist to the Royal Agricultural Society of England 171

XIII.- Flax, its Treatment, Agricultural and Technical. By John

Wilson, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., &c.

187

XIV.-Experiment on Drainage at different Depths. By R. Milward 210

XV.-On the Comparative Profit realized with different breeds of

Sheep. By Samuel Druce

XVI.—On a Method of obtaining immediate Fixity of Type in forming

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XVII.-On the Subsequent Manuring Effects of Burned Clay. By J.

J. Mechi

224

XVIII.-On the Silica Strata of the Lower Chalk, By J. Thomas

Way and J. M. Paine

225

XIX.-Second Report on the Prevention of Pleuro-Pneumonia in Cattle

by Inoculation. By Professor Simonds, Veterinary Inspector

to the Society

244

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APPENDIX.

Council and Officers of the Royal Agricultural Society of England,

1852-1853.

Report of the Council to the General Meeting, Dec. 11, 1852

Balance Sheet of General Account: January-June, 1852.

Report of the Council to the General Meeting, May 23, 1853

Balance-Sheet of General Account: July-December, 1832

Essays and Reports-Prizes for 1854.

Essays and Reports—Awards, 1853 .

Prizes :-Substitute for Guano.-Discovery of Guano

Memoranda

Local Cheques

Farming Accounts

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PLATES.
Map to illustrate the Relations of Geology to Agriculture in North-

Eastern America, to face page
Geological Map of Derbyshire, to face page

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