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Index 



Notices of books : Page 



Birds beneficial to agriculture ... ... ... ... ... 215 



Botany f or agricultural students ... ... ... ... 1140 



Cattle and the future of beef production in England ... ... 1141 



Chemistryf or agricultural students ... ... ... ... 1140 



Commercial poultry farming ... ... ... ... ... 1141 



Co-operation for farmers ... ... ... ... ... HO 



Cottage buildings in eob, pise, chalk and clay ... ... ... 1046 



" Country Life " book of cottages ... ... ... ... 1046 



Development of English agriculture and rural life ... ... lU 



Farm tractor handbook ... ... ... ... ... HO 



Farmers' clean milk book ... ... ... ... ... 851 



Food supplies in peace and war ... ... ... ... 1254 



Fungal diseases of the common larch ... ... ... ... 1255 



Handbook on the law of allotments ... ... ... ... 1142 



Harnessing the hottest heat and the coldest cold ... ... 214 



Insect and fungus pests of plants in 1918 ... ... ... 1141 



International year-book of agricultural legislation ... ... 1047 



Land drainage from field to sea ... ... ... ... 1140 



settlement ... ... ... ... ... ... 215 



Physiology of farm animals ... ... ... ... ... 1140 



Syllabus of the Horace Plunkett Foundation Lectures on Rural 



Sociology ... 1256 



Thesoil ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1254 



World's meat future ... ... ... ... ... ... 1141 



Oars : 



Acreage of United Kingdom, 1917-18 ... ... ... ... 195 



Control ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 839 



Growth as a soiling crop ... ... ... ... ...512,513 



Laying of crops ... ... ... ... ... ... 309 



Guaranteed prices ... ... ... ... 2,97,549,636,964,967 



Increased retail prices ... ... ... ... ... 334 



Restrictions on use ... ... ... ... ... ... 563 



" Shelled " grain in ... ... ... ... ... 489 



Sowing of winter oats ... ... ... ... ... 640 



Spring oats, fertilisers for ... ... ... ... ... 84 



Varieties in the cultivation of pea and oat hay ... ... ... 1100 



Oldershaw, A. W. : A simple method of making silage ... ... 450 



Value of lupins in the cultivation of poor light land ... ... 982 



OUve, G. W. : Report on manurial trials carried out on the Apethorpe 



Estate, 1917-18 ... ... ... ... ... ... 441 



Onion smut ... ... ... ... ... ... 168,176,1098 



white rot disease ... ... ... ... ... 177,178,1093 



Onions attacked by dodder ... ... ... ... ... 836 



Ordnance Survey, issue of special reports on the mineral resources of Great 



Britain ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1040 



Ormskirk, potato trials as to wart disease ... ... ... ... 842 



Ouse, drainage operations ... ... ... ... 729,731,1172 



Owen, B. G. : Lincoln tractor trials ... ... ... ... 686 



Owen, M. N. : 



Skin spot of potatoes ... ... ... ... ... 1245 



White rot disease of onion bulbs ... ... ... ... 1093 



Paine, S. G. : " Stripe " disease of tomatoes ... ... ... 998 



Paraffin for machines, see Machinery. 

 Parliament, questions in : 



Agricultural executive committees ... ... ... ... 931 



„ Organisation Society ... ... ... 95, 840, 931 



„ produce, consumption ... ... ... ... 1258 



„ show and entertainments duty ... ... ... 328 



supplies to make the United Kingdom self-supporting .. . 1257 



AUotments ... ... ... ... ... 1256 



Apples ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 840 



Barley ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 839 



Bee disease ... ... ... ... ... ... 1027 



Butter ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1027 



Cereals, acreage, 1917-18 ... ... ... ... ... 195 



Ckeese ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 92. 661 



