THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. VOLUME THE FOURTEENTH. PART I. PRACTICE WITH SCIENCE. No. XXXI.-1853. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. HARVARD THESE EXPERIMENTS, IT IS TRUE, ARE NOT EASY; STILL THEY ARE IN THE POWER OF EVERY LONDON-Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street. 166 64 CONTENTS OF PART I., VOL, XIV, I.-Relations of Geology to Agriculture in North-Eastern America. IV.-A Method of preserving Corn-Stacks from Damage by Rooks. V.-On the Production of Butter. By Louis H. Ruegg 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 VIII. On the Hereditary Diseases of Horses. By Finlay Dun, Jun., X.-On Mr. Bickford's Method of Irrigation. From Mr. Archer XI. A detailed Report of the Drainage by Steam-power of a Portion 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 XIX. Second Report on the Prevention of Pleuro-Pneumonia in Cattle Council and Officers of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1852-1853. i PLATES. Map to illustrate the Relations of Geology to Agriculture in North- The Binder is desired to collect together all the Appendix matter, with In reprints of the Journal, all Appendix matter (and in one instance an |