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EDITED BY JAMES MACDONALD,

of the Farming World.'

COMPLETE IN THREE HANDSOME VOLUMES.

STEPHENS' BOOK OF THE FARM. Fourth Edition, Revised, and in great part Rewritten. With numerous Portraits of Animals and Engravings of Implements. bound with leather back and gilt top, £3, 3s. Volumes, strongly bound in cloth, price 10s. 6d. each.

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FARMYARD

MANURE:

ITS NATURE, COMPOSITION, AND TREATMENT.

By C. M. AIKMAN, M.A., B.Sc., F.R.S.E., F.I.C., F.C.S.,
Lecturer on Agricultural Chemistry, West of Scotland
Technical College; Examiner in Chemistry,
University of Glasgow, &c.

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FROM THE EDITION BY SIR CHARLES A. CAMERON, M.D., F.R.C.S.I. REVISED AND ENLARGED BY C. M. AIKMAN, M.A., B.Sc., &c. 92d Thousand. Crown 8vo, 1s.

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FROM THE EDITION BY SIR CHARLES A. CAMERON. REVISED AND BROUGHT DOWN TO DATE BY C. M. AIKMAN, M.A., B.Sc. Fcap. 8vo.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH and LONDON.

FARMYARD MANURE

FARMYARD MANURE

ITS NATURE, COMPOSITION, AND

TREATMENT

BY

C. M. AIKMAN, M.A., B.Sc.
F.R.S.E., F.I.C., F.C.S.

LECTURER ON AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, WEST OF SCOTLAND TECHNICAL COLLEGE;
EXAMINER IN CHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW; CONSULTING CHEMIST

TO THE RENFREWSHIRE, LANARKSHIRE, ETC., AGRICULTURAL

SOCIETIES; AND HON. PRESIDENT OF WESTERN
INSTITUTE OF TEACHERS OF AGRI-

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