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Fish waste as manure 69 



Flax : Imports 620 



Flour : Imports 348, 619 



Russia^ export to the United Kingdom ... 631 



Flowers : Imports 620 



Fodder : Green maize for , 229, 681 



Spain importation 376 



Food and Drugs Acts (see Sale of Food and Drugs Acts). 



Forestry : Armstrong College, instruction at ... 180,647 



Beech trees, " slime flux " on... 181 



Canker fungus and woolly aphis 55 



CoWax rot [Agaricus mellcus) 111,116 



Creosoting timber 339 



Decay of timber, method of testing 340 



Drought, resistance of young trees to ^ 114 



Education 180, 373, 567, 6i7 



Exhibition at Niirnberg 339 



Large larch saw-fly [Ncmatus Erichsoni) 374, 385 



School of Forestry in Forest of Dean 567, 647 



Scots pines, diseased 115 



South Africa, School of Forestry 373 



Formalin for preservation of ripe fruit 562 



Formalin in milk 297 



Fowls, see Poultry. 



France : Asparagus growing 493, 6§3 



Corn prices ... 62, 126, 190, 254, 318, 382, 446, 510, 574, 637, 702, 766 



Crop reports 236, 290, 354, 408 



Dodder 337 



Electricity as a motive power on the farm 568 



Insurance, mutual ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 119 



I'oultry show at Paris 632 



Frost, protection of fruit trees from ., 57, 184, 375 



Fruit and Cider Institute : Alcoholic fermentation in cider 341 



Education at 656 



Fruit (see also Apples, Insects, &.c,) : 



Area, Great Britain, 1906 346 



Birds and fruitgrowers... ^ 504, 665, 719 



Diseases of fruic and fruit-bearing plants (see also Fungi) ... 626 



Frost, protection of trees from 57, 184, 375 



Hereford Co-operative Grading Society 174 



Imports ... .351,620 



Markets, establishment of ... 431 



Orchard and bush fruit pests in 1906 705 



Preservation of ripe 562 



Pruning of newly -planted trees ... 660 



Raspberries, cultivation of 497 



Spraying of trees in winter ... ... 623 



Strawberries, diseases 498 



Telephones in rural districts 226, 747 



Germany: Fruit farming ... ... ... ... ... ... 364 



Horticultural Exhibition at Mannheim 566 



Natal, import regulations 499 



New Zealand, ixiv^ovt vQgxA^AXoiiii ... ... ... ... ... 185 



plant import regulations ... 433 



Western Australia, import VQgxxX&Aiion^ ... ... ... ... 177 



Fruit fly {Ceratitis capitata) 440 



Fumigation by hydrocyanic acid gas ... ... 370 



Fungi: K'^t^Xq Yoi {Gl<Z'Osporium fructigenurti) ... ... ... ... 563 



AmQY\c.s.n goo^^hQVVY mi\AQ\\ {SphaerotUeca mors iivae) ... ... 560 



Bean pod canker 411 



Black scab of potatoes in North Wales ... ... 441 



^\b.ck. iiivi^Q oi iom?i,toQ^ {Macrosporlum tomato) ... ... ... 369, 472 



Canker fungus and woolly aphis ... 55 



CoWat rot {Agaricusmelleus) ... ... ... ... ... ... 111,115 



Fruit and fruit-bearing plants, diagrams of diseases of 626 



Hybernating mycelium, spread of fungus diseases by ... 232, 257, 472 



