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INDEX. 



France (continued) — 



Limousin fruit trade ... ... ... ••• ••• ••• XV., 770 



Milk-testing society XVII., 565 



National Society of Agriculture XII., 55 



Normandy, agriculture in • XIV., 604 



Persons engaged in agriculture, number XIV. , 433 



Poultry industry, State assistance to XIV., 631 



Poultry-rearing appliances, agency for, at Marseilles ... XVII., 156 



Rats in ... XI., 50 



Reafforestation ... ... ••• ••• ••• ••• ••■ XVI., 678 



Roadside planting of fruit trees XI., 497 



Roquefort cheese industry ... XVII., 861 



Sale of seeds ... ... _ XVI., 325 



Schools of agriculture, practical ... XI., 52 



Tnher, a, new {Solamim coramersonii) ... ... ... ... XI., 412 



Tunisian wheat, admission of XI., 148 



Waste lands, planting XV., 862 



Fream Memorial Fund XV., 62 ; XVII., 320 



Freights : Denmark to Great Britain XI. , 95 



Live stock and meat, cost of transporting ... ... ... XVI., 1015 



Live stock to South Africa XVI., 747 



United States, on grain XL, 147 ; XIV., "^00 



Frost : Protection of fruit from ... XIIL, 57, 184, 375; XIV., 23; 



XV., 521 ; XVI., 1024 ; XVII, 558 



Fruit (see also Aj^J^les, Pears, etc.) : Bees, action in pollination XVII., 974 



Birds and fruit growers XIIL, 504, 665, 719 



Birds, protection of bushes against ... ... ... XII., 629, 664 



Blossoming of fruit trees XV., 678 ; XVII., 32 



Blue tit, j)rotection of fruit trees against ... ... ... XL, 500 



Bottling XVL, 1025 ; XYII.. 194, 977 



Cold storage XL, 174, 624 



Committee on Fruit Industry XII., 235, 693 



Cross-fertilisation XV., 204, 683 ; XVII., 974 



Cultivation on small holdings XV., 6, 87, 327 



Diseases of fruit and fruit-bearing plants, diagrams, note as 



to issue XIIL, 626 



Drying or evaporating ... ... ... ... ... ... XII., 756 



Experiments XL, 625 ; XII., 489 ; XV., 9.59 ; XVI, 938, 941, 1023 



Farming in West Kent XVII., 811 



Frost : protection from ... XIIL, 57, 184, 375 ; XIV., 23 ; XV., 521 ; 



XYl., 1024 ; XVII., 558 

 Fumigation of trees with hydrocyanic acid gas ... ... XII., 496 



Grafting fruit trees XIL, 1, 523 ; XVL, 8.36, 1023 



Grease banding of fruit trees ... ... ... ... ... XVII., 542 



Hereford Co-operative Fruit Grading Society ... ... XIIL, 174 



Home Office Order as to persons engaged in preserving ... XIV., 503 

 Injury to. See Insects and Fungi. 



Manuring of fruit trees ... XL, 625 ; XIL, 171, 436, 559 ; XVL, 834, 



941, 1025 



Marketing wild fruits XV., 518 



Markets, establishment of ... ... ... ... ... XIIL, 431 



Mineral content of leaves of fruit trees ... ... ... XVII., 933 



Orchard and bush fruit pests in 1906 XIIL, 705 



Orchards, experimental XL, 747 



Orchards, treatment of neglected XVL, 832 



Packing and grading XL, 589 



Planting fruit trees and bushes... XL, 48, 432, 449, 581 ; XV., 937 



Pollen, germination of XVL, 586 



Pollination XV., 204, 683 ; XVIL, 974 



Preservation of ripe fruit XIL, 305 ; XIIL, 562 



Production in Germany, France, and Holland XV., 414 



Production in Wisbech district XV., 777 ; XVII., 519 



