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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,

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Articles of Foreign and Colonial Production imported in

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Acreage under each Description of Crop, Fallow, and Grass;
and Number of Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs in Great Britain
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Distribution of Members of the Royal Agricultural Society of England
Cash Accounts and Balance-sheets, from 1st July to Dec. 31, 1868;
and from 1st Jan. to June 30, 1869 ..

Yearly Cash Account, from 1st January to December 31, 1868

Country Meeting Account, Leicester, 1868

Memoranda of Meetings, Payment of Subscription, &c.

Manchester Meeting, 1869: Schedule of Prizes..

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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
place it at the end of each volume of the Journal, excepting Titles and Contents, and Statistics
&c., which are in all cases to be placed at the beginning of the Volume: the lettering at the back to
include a statement of the year as well as the volume; the first volume belonging to 1839-40, the
second to 1841, the third to 1842, the fourth to 1843, and so on.

In Reprints of the Journal all Appendix matter and, in one instance, an Article in the body of
the Journal (which at the time had become obsolete), were omitted; the Roman numeral folios,
however (for convenience of reference), were reprinted without alteration in the Appendix matter
retained.

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.

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