THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. SECOND SERIES. VOLUME THE FIFTH. PRACTICE WITH SCIENCE. AT LOS ANGELES 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, LUKE STREET, STAMFORD STREET, AND CHARING CROSS., T III, XV Articles of Foreign and Colonial Production imported in Acreage under each Description of Crop, Fallow, and Grass; I.—The Farming of Middlesex. By the Rev. J. C. Clutterbuck. II.-Some of the Agricultural Lessons of 1868. By J. Chalmers .. V.-A Short History of the Rise and Progress of the Devon Breed of Cattle. By J. Tanner Davy. Prize Essay VI.-Chemical Report. Presented to the Council December 2, 1868. VII.-The Best Mode of Providing a Continuous Succession of Green Crops, including Roots, &c. By R. L. Everett. Prize VIII.-On the Introduction and Cultivation of the newer Coniferæ and other Forest Trees, with special reference to the Climate of Great Britain and Ireland. By Robert Hutchison IX.—Variation in the Price and Supply of Wheat. By H. Evershed 153 440593 XIV. On the Production of Successive Green Crops. By John Chambers, Farm - Bailiff to the Strines Calico - Printing XV.—Extract from Professor Simonds's Report to the Committee of Governors of the Royal Veterinary College, included in the 1.—A Hill and a Half-Hill Farm. By H. H. Dixon 2.-Eastburn Farm. By H. M. Jenkins 5.-The Lodge Farm, Castle Acre. By H. M. Jenkins 6.-Pitchill, Tilesford, and the Grove. By H. M. Jenkins 474 7.-Bulbridge and Ugford, near Salisbury. By H. M. Jenkins 495 XVII.-Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Manchester. By W. Wells, M.P., Senior Steward .. XVIII.-Report on the Exhibition and Trial of Implements at Man- chester. By Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart., Senior Steward.. 529 List of Officers of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1869 Reports of the Council to the General Meeting, December 9, 1868, and i,,xxxiii Distribution of Members of the Royal Agricultural Society of England Yearly Cash Account, from 1st January to December 31, 1868 Country Meeting Account, Leicester, 1868 Members' Chemical Analysis and Veterinary Privileges xxx-xxxii, lxxxi-lxxxii 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, &c.; AND PAUPERISM. [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 the INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.] GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 1868. THE estimated Population of the United Kingdom at the middle of the year 1868 was 30,369,845; viz., England and Wales, 21,649,377; Scotland, 3,188,125; and Ireland, 5,532,343. In the year under review, 1,047,859 births and 636,881 deaths were registered; thus making the natural increase 410,978, or, after correction for defective registration in Ireland, 1177 daily. The recorded number of emigrants of home origin was 142,731, or 391 daily. The difference between the emigrants and the corrected natural increase was 786 daily. In the year 1868, 58,268 of the English people, 14,954 of the Scotch, 64,961 of the Irish people, 51,956 foreigners, and 6182 persons of origin not distinguished in the returns, left ports of the United Kingdom for foreign and colonial settlements. They constituted a total emigration of 196,321 persons, of whom 155,532 went to the United States. The emigration of 1868 was smaller than in any of the four years 8361-66, but exceeded that of 1867 by about 368. ENGLAND AND WALES. In 1868 the birth-rate in England was 36.31 to 1000 persons living; the death-rate, 22.20. The former was above the average, the latter was near, but below it. The death-rate experienced by the people inhabiting districts that comprise the chief towns was 24.22 per 1000 of population; while the death-rate of persons residing in districts comprising small towns and country parishes was 19.40 per 1000. The average death-rates of town and chiefly rural districts are respectively 24.56 and 20.14 per 1000 living. VOL. V.-S. S. A |