THE

JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE.

JULY 1859-MARCH 1861.

NEW SERIES.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH,

AND 37 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.

MDCCCLXI

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CONTENTS.

I. Notes, chiefly Agricultural, taken during a Tour in Belgium,

Holland, and on the Rhine. By Robert Scott Burn.

II. Maritime Pisciculture,

III. English and French Agriculture.-Part II.,

IV. The Farmers' Note-Book.-No. LXIV.,

Jay on the Statistics of American Agriculture, 52.-The Use

of Straw, 59.-On the Production of Manure, 63.-Singling

of Turnips, and Large and Small Bulbs, 65.

V. Agricultural Summary for the Quarter,

VI. Fiars Prices of the different Counties of Scotland, for Crop and

Year 1858,

Page

VII. Tables of Average Prices of Grain-Weekly Average Price of

Grain-Foreign Markets The Revenue-Prices of Butcher-Meat, and

of Wool,

1

22

35

52

68

77

79

VIII. Notes on Novelties at the Meeting of the Royal Agricul-

tural Society of England, at Warwick-July. By Robert Scott Burn, 81

IX. Maritime Pisciculture,

X. Notes, chiefly Agricultural, taken during a Tour in Belgium,

Holland, and on the Rhine. By Robert Scott Burn,

XI. Steam Culture,

.

Manures. By R. Russell, F.R.S.E.,

XII. The Absorbing Powers of Soils, and of Roots of Plants for

XIII. The Farmers' Note-Book.-No. LXV.,.

92

104

116

134

144

Insects Injurious to Agriculture, 144.-Dipping of Sheep in

Arsenical Solutions, with Note by Professor Dick, 152.

XIV. Agricultural Summary for the Quarter,

XV. Tables of Average Prices of Grain-Weekly Average Price of

Grain-Foreign Markets-The Revenue-Prices of Butcher-Meat, and

XIX. Notes, chiefly Agricultural, taken during a Tour in Belgium,

Holland, and on the Rhine. By Robert Scott Burn,

XX. Doings at the December Agricultural Meetings in London.-

Smithfield Club Show, Central Farmers' Club Root-Show at Crystal

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