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INDEX. 



Raiffeisen Credit Associations : — Page 



In Belgium 45 



„ Germany - -- -- -- - 2 



Ranching in the United States - - 257 



Rape, area in New Zealand - - - - - - - 186 



Rapeseed, imports - - - - - - - 218, 437 



Raspberries : — 



Crop of 1896 - - - - 365 



Cultivation and evaporation in the United States 54 



Diseases of raspberry plants - - - 58 



Prices - - . - - - ■ . - - 238 



Rateable value of lands, 1870-94 - - - 426 



Rates (see also Taxation, Local), assessment of farmers - - - - 379 



Red mould on hops - - - - - - 291 



Refrigerated produce : 



Butter from Canada ------- 170 



Fruit „ „ - - - - - 302 



From South Australia : - - - • - 295 

 „ Victoria - - - - - - -176 



Registration of dogs, suggested - - - - . ' - - 419 



„ titles to land in Germany and Austria-Hungary - - 423 

 Remedies for injurious insects and fungi, see under Insects and Fungi. 



Rhizoglyphus in snowdrops ------- 286 



Rhubarb, prices ------- 105, 237, 345, 456 



Rice exported from India - - - - - - 207 



Rottenness of turnips and swedes in store - - - - 120 



Roumania : — 



Agriculture -------- 312 



Crops - - - - - - - 30, 152, 267 



Rural depopulation in France ----- 406 



Russia : — 



Advances on grain - - - - - -318 



Cattle-raising - - - - - - - 10 



Crops -------- 30, 147, 271 



Department of Agriculture - - - - -313 



Eggs, export -------- 369 



Grass, area - - 13 



Importation of plants, fruit, and vegetables, regulations - - 179 



Machinery exhibition at Kieff - 418 



Poultry industry - - - - - - 371 



State loans for agricultural improvements - - - - 415 



Wheat cultivation in South Russia - - - - 414 



Finland, butter trade - - - - 306 



„ kiln drying of corn - ----- 406 



Poland^ agriculture - - - - ' - - 66 



Turkestan, „ - - - - " . 54 



Bye :— 



Area and production in Ireland, 1895 ----- 85 



1896 - - --• 420 



„ in Ireland, 1896 - 324 



Austria, area and production, 1896 - . - - - 387 



Belgium, production, 1896 - - - - - 270 



Canada, Ontario, area and production, 1896 - - 268 



Denmark, production, 1895 - - - - - 26, 148 



France, area and production, 1896- - - - - 267 



Germany, production, 1896 - - - - 271 



„ prices ------ 252 0 



Hungary, area and production, 1896 - - - - - 150 



New Zealand, area - - - - - - 185 



Roumania, area and production, 1896 - - 267 



Russia, production, 1896 - - 271 



Sweden, production, 1896 ----- _ 333 



United States, area and production, 1896 - - - - 266, 384 



Saffron cultivation in Spain - - - - - -192 



Salford, live stock at markets and numbers weighed - - 91, 222, 330, 440 



