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INDEX. 



Page 



Provisions, prices 59, 125, 189, 253, 317, 381, 445, 509, 573, 638, 702, 767 



Pruning fruit trees and bushes ... ... 522, 585 



Psylla mali (Apple sucker) 172 



Pulp, preparation of fruit ... 621 



Quarter-evil 492 



Quebracho wood in Argentina 562 



Queensland, crop reports 149 



Rabbits, imports ... 403, 603- 



Railways : Cartage charges, inclusion in railway rates 305 



Departmental Committee on railway rates ... 79, 180 



Potato weighing at railway stations 409 



Rates for agricultural produce, correspondence ... ... ... 65, 513 



Rates for calves 293 



Denmark, railway rates in ... ... ... ... ... ... 95 



Rape : Area, Great Britain and Ireland, 1904 340 



Imports of seed 607 



Raspberries : Manuring 626 



Pulping 621 



Spraying 642 



Training and pruning 522 



Rats in France 50 



Reading College : Experiments with swedes 219 



Cost of rearing chickens ... ... ... ... ... ... 592 



Feeding of chickens ... 684 



• Red spider {Tetranychus and Bryobia) 173, 649 



Refrigeration, fruit 174, 624 



Renting farm land by poultry-keepers ... ... ... ... ... 404 



RMzoglyphus ech inopus (Bulb mite) ... ... ... ... ... ... 748 



Roadside planting of fruit trees 497 



Rooks, food of, in Germany... 630 



Protection of seed against ... ... 544 



Roots (see also Turnips, &c.) : Area, Great Britain and Ireland, 1904 340 



Production, Great Britain, 1904 521 



Rothamsted Experiment Station : Rainfall 716 



Roumania : Imports of maize from 277 



Weather and crops in 1904 482 



Wheat imports from 539 



Rowbotham, F. J. : Basic slag for poor pasture 414 



Royal Agricultural Show, forestry 179 



Royal Statistical Society, production of meat and milk 232 



Rubber seed cake 51 



Rural depopulation, Physical Deterioration Committee 308- 



Russia : British breeding stock in 292 



Crop reports ... 277 



Weather and crops in 1904 483 



Wheat, imports from 536 



Rye : Area, Great Britain and Ireland, 1904 339 



France, area, 1904 210 



Germany, area and production, 1903.'. 107 



Greece, production 542 



Rye-grass, use in seed mixtures 105 



Perennial and Italian 41 g 



St. Louis Exhibition : Insect pests 436 



Sale of Food and Drugs Acts : Report 1 429 



Prosecutions under, 1902 180 



Salt for barley, experiments with 39 



Schleh, Dr. : Food of rooks in Germany 630 



Schools, see Education. 



Schribaux, M. : Protection of seed against crows 544 



