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Index 



Pests — continued. Page 



Grey field slug ... ... ... ... ... ... 451 



Insects and fungi ... ... ... ... ... ... 628 



Plant pests, report on ... ... ... ... ... 471 



Eats, destruction of ... ... ... ... ... 712 



Turnip gall weevil ... ... ... ... ... 1130 



Warble fly ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 92 



Physical training : To produce efficiency in farm work ... ... 26 



Pigs (see Livestock). For feeding of pigs see Feeding and Feeding 

 Stuffs. 



Pitcher, F. J., and G. S. Robertson : Silage for dairy cows ... ... 506 



Plants : 



Diseases of : Experiments at Rothamsted ... ... ... 785 



Importation of plants, bulbs, etc. ... ... ... ... 671 



,, rhododendrons ... ... ... ... 672 



Nomenclature of ... ... ... ... ... ... 167 



Prevention of bunt and smut ... ... ... ... ... 730 



Report on plant pests for 1919 ... ... ... ... ... 471 



Sale of Diseased Plants Order, 1921 ... ... ... ... 486 



Poland : Disease in geese from ... ... ... ... ... 855 



Poor Laws : Agricultural labour and Poor Laws in 1834 ... ... 592 



Pork : Breeding pigs foT-... ... ... ... ... ... 608 



Porter, John : The spraying of cornfield weeds with sulphate of 



ammonia ... ... ... ... ... ... 1109 



Porter, Stanley Street- : The breeding of geese ... ... ... 698 



Potash (see Manures). 



Potatoes (see also Fungi and Spraying) : 



Boxing of for sprouting ... ... ... ... ... 38 



Clubs in Gloucestershire ... ... ... ... ... 733 



Common scab of ... ... ... ... ... ... 49 



Corky scab of... ... ... ... ... ... ... 387 



Cost of harvesting ... ... ... ... ... ... 431 



Cultivation of ... ... ... ... ... ... 36 



Demonstration plots, 1922 ... ... ... ... ... 841 



Feeding to livestock ... ... ... ... ... 933 



Growing in Essex ... ... ... ... ... ... 36 



Harvesting ... ... ... ... ... ... 41,431 



Immunity trials, 1921 ... ... ... ... ... 1147 



Influence of size and character of seed on yield of potatoes ... 43 



In the Penzance area of Cornwall ... ... ... ... 745 



Inspection of growing crops ... ... ... ... ... 739 



Internationa] Potato Conference 376,559,679,908 



Leaf curl demonstrations ... ... ... ... ...842,1019 



Lifting 431 



Manuring for ... ... ... ... ... ...37,51,82 



Maturity trials, 1921... ... ... ... ... ... 1044 



Mosaic disease of 335,748,842,1019 



Need for more general use of improved varieties of seed ... 196 



Nomenclature of seed ... ... ... ... - ... 167 



Pink rot : a disease new to England ... ... ... ... 1126 



Potassic fertilisers for ... ... ... ... ... 932 



Production of seed in Cumberland and Westmorland ... ... 903 



Seed : 



Influence of size and character of ... ... ... ••• 43 



Need for more general use of improved ... ... ... 39,196 



Scotch and Irish 670,737 



Spraying 41,434,1046 



Storage of ... ... ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 355 



Synonyms : Report of the 1920 Committee ... ... ... 188 



Trials : Report for 1920 ... ••■ ••• 350 



Wart disease of 351,656,739,848,969 



Poultry (for feeding of poultry see Feeding and Feeding Stuffs) : 



Artificial light, experiments with ... ... ... ... 346 



Disease in geese from Poland ... ...^ ... ••• 355 



Ducks as egg producers ... ... ••• ••• ••• 



,, rearing of ... ... ••• ••• ••• •• 



Egg and day old chick distribution scheme ... ... ... 583,845 



,, collecting societies ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 274,566 



