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Experiments (Continued) : Page 



Poultry feeding 7(3,373 



Schemes for manurial and other experiments ... ... 506 



Sheep: Breeding records ... ... ... ... ... ... 378 



Feeding 224,225 



Sugar beet as food for sheep ... ... ... ... 225 



Swine feeding ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 82 



Fallow, area in Great Britain ... ... ... ... ... 202 



Farcy, see Glanders. 



Farmers' co-operative societies... ... ... ... ... ... 33,324 



Farmyard manure 75, 289, 435, 489 



Feeding stuffs : Analyses under Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act 265 

 Compounding of rations ... ... ... ... ... ... 150 



Digestible constituents in ... ... ... ... ... 151 



Effect of food of cows upon butter fat ... ... :.. ... 447 



Experiments in feeding stock 51,73,82,224,225,227 



Imports 199, 503 



Maize oil cake ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Ill 



Mash as food for poultry ... ... ... ... ... 76 



Purchase of ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 10 



Sunflower seed cake ... ... ... ... ... ... 110 



Swine feeding 82, 172 



Felted beech coccus ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 218 



Fertilisers, see Manures. 



Filled cheese, manufacture in the United States ... ... ... 534 



Finger and toe ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 145 



Flax : Area in Great Britain and Ireland, 1902 202 



,, and production, Ireland, 1902 547 



Imports ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 504 



Prices in Ireland ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 124 



Belgium, area and production, 1900 ... ... ... ... 105 



Flour and meal : Adulteration ... ... ... ... ... 373 



Feeding to stock 158 



Imports 199,502 



United States: Milling industry ... ... ... ... 395 



Mixed flour law 535 



Foot and mouth disease, quarterly returns ... ... 139, 284, 427, 571 



Forest Supply Association ... ... ... ... ... ... 327 



Forests and forestry, see Woods. 



Formaldehyde, use of, against smut ... 366 



Foul brood and its prevention by formalin in Ireland ... ... 223 



Fowls, see Poultry. 



Foxgloves 368 



France : Cattle and meat prices (Paris) 131, 276, 419, 563 



Corn prices 135,280,423,567 



Crop reports 116, 263, 405, 544 



Experiment stations ... ... ... ... ... ... 249 



Sugar beet and chicory cultivation ... ... ... ... 108 



Fruit (see also Apples, &c.) : Area under small fruit, 1902 ... 202 

 Cold storage ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 516 



Co-operative sale of ... ... ... ... ... 330 



Correspondence on railway rates ... ... ... ... 229 



Grazing in orchards sprayed with poisonous washes ... ... 193 



Imports 200,504 



Insects and fungi, injurious 73, 361, 520, 522, 523, 526 



Prices 138, 283, 426, 570 



Canada, Fruit Marks Act 403 



United, States, fruit canning industry 536 



Fumigation : Bisulphide of carbon for ants, &c. ... ... ... 89 



Hydrocyanic gas for currant bushes ... ... ... ... 73 



,, , s furniture beetles ... ... ... ... 219 



Fungi : Bacteriosis of potatoes (Bacillus solanaccarum) ... 308 



Black scab of potatoes ((Edomyces leproides) ... ... 307, 320 



