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Manuscripts

Papers must be in English and should be formatted for A4 paper and double spaced with left and right

margins of 25mm. Page and line numbering must be used. Notes should not exceed 2,000 words or

the equivalent inclusive of tables and illustrations.

The following format, though not absolutely rigid, is recommended:

1. Title, author(s) name(s), place where work was carried out

2. Abstract

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(a) Introduction, (b) Materials and Methods, (c) Results,

(d) Discussion, (e) Acknowledgements 4. References

5. Tables (one per page) with captions 6. Figures 7. Captions for figures and photographs

Abstracts should be intelligible without reference to the paper. Outline the purpose and methods of

the work, and important findings and conclusions. Do not exceed 250 words for papers or 100 words

for Notes.

Abbreviations: The International System of Units (SI) should be used.

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if there are four or more authors, the first name followed by et al. should be used.

The list of references at the end of the text should be in alphabetical order and set out as in the

following examples:

Byrne, E. 1979. "Chemical Analysis of Agricultural Materials". An Foras Taluntais, Dublin, 194 pages.

Cunningham, E.P. 1990. Quantitative approaches to animal breeding. Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Edinburgh 13: 4-14.

Reids, P. 1988. Control of protein metabolism. In: "Control and Regulations of Animal Growth" (ed. J.F.

Quirke and H. Schmid), Pudoc, Wageningen, pages 25-44.

Sheehan, W. and Fitzgerald, J.J. 1977. Effects of method of herbage conservation on performance of store lambs. Irish Journal of Agricultural Research 16: 83-94.

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that names and dates correspond in the two places.

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level of experimental error and the statistical significance of the results should be given. Levels of sta

tistical significance should be indicated as follows without explanation: * = P<0.05,

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The effect of soil moisture content on leaf

extension rate and yield of perennial ryegrass A.S. Laidlaw 1

Conservation characteristics of baled

grass silages differing in duration of wilting, bale density and number of layers of plastic stretch-film

C. Keles, P. O'Kiely, J.). Lenehan and P.D. Forristal 21

Soil cover of tubers and the percentage of green tubers at various inter-row widths

R. Bernik, T. Godesa, P. Dolnicar and F. Vucajnk 35

Optimal system of contract matings for use in

a commercial dairy population 5. Mc Parland, J.F. Kearney, N. L?pez-Villalobos and D.P. Berry 43

Feed intake pattern, behaviour, rumen

characteristics and blood metabolites of

finishing beef steers offered total mixed

rations constituted at feeding or ensiling ?. Cummins, P. O' Kiely, M.G. Keane and D.A. Kenny 57

Prediction of cull cow carcass characteristics

from live weight and body condition score

measured pre slaughter W. Minchin, F. Buckley, D.A. Kenny, M.G. Keane,

L Shalloo and M. O'Donovan 75

An evaluation of two grassland-based systems of mid-season prime lamb production using

prolific ewes of two genotypes

T.W.J. Keady, J.P. Hanrahan and S. Flanagan 87

A note on muscle composition and colour

of Holstein-Friesian, Piedmontese x

Holstein-Friesian and Romagnola x Holstein

Friesian steers

M.G. Keane and P. Allen 103

A note on the use of FTA technology for

storage of blood samples for DNA analysis and removal of PCR inhibitors

M.P. Mullen, D.J. Howard, R. Powell and J.P. Hanrahan 109

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