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INDEX. 



Stratford Market :— p 



Prices, fruit - - . . , - 107, 233 



„ vegetables 106, 237 



Straw, imports 215 437 

 Strawberries : — 



Crop of 1896 - _ «. . - - 365 



• Prices " " " - - 107, 238, 366 

 Sugar : — 



Bounties in Germany 254 



(Beet) industry on the Continent - - - _ 14 



Belgium, sale of - 399 



India, imports and exports - - - . _ 20 



Sulphate of copper solutions - - - _ _ - 71 157 



Surface caterpillars - - - - . - 163 

 Sweden : — 



Beet sugar industry - - - - _ ^7 



Crops - - - . . - 388 



Dairy trade - - - - _ 7 



Forestry - _ 399 



Milk and cream exports - - - _ 39 g 

 Swedes : — 



Prices 106j 344j 456 



Rottenness of, in store - - - - - _ - 120 



Swift moth (Hepialus lupulinus) ' ~ - - - - 36 



Swine : — 



Exports - - - - - - - _ 210,429 



Fever, Report of Departmental Committee - _ . 79 



„ Quarterly returns - - 108, 239, 347, 459 



Ireland - - - 109, 207, 240, 349, 460 



Imports 209, 429 



., from Ireland to Great Britain - - _ 89, 221, 328 439 



Number, 1896 - - - - - - - ' 135 



Prices and numbers weighed at markets - - - 91, 222., 330, 440 



Algeria, number - - - - 70 



Argentina, number, 1895 - - - - _ _ 395 



Canada : 



Manitoba, number, 1896 - - - - _ _ 339 



Ontario, number, 1896 - - - - 269 



Denmark, trade - - t - - - -188 



France, prices at Paris - - - - 98, 229, 337, 449 



Switzerland, 1886 - - - - - - - 74 



i} - 1896.. ; ... -.. %K ^J, - .... - . ',, ~ , -•' 173. 



United States, number in 1897 - - _ . 495 



Uruguay, trade - - - - - - -172 



Switzerland : — 



Agriculture - - - - - - - 73 



and protection - -- -- -- .72 



Live stock census, 1886 ------ 74 



„ 1896 - - - - - . 173 



Tallow and steariae, imports - - - - 90, 221, 329, 439 



Tar-branding of sheep - - - - .. - - - - 44 

 Taxation : — 



Farmers and the income tax - - - - - - 263 



„ „ assessments to local rates - 379 

 Local taxation returns : 



1894-95, Part I. - ----- - - 322 



1894-95, Part II. - . - - - 425 



Ireland, 1895 - - 427 



Scotland, 1893-4 ------ - 424 



Tea: Indian imports and exports - 20,24, 207 



Technical Education, return of expenditure - - - 83 



Temporary admission of corn into France for starch-making - - 53 



Texas fever in Australia - - - - - - - 297 



"Thousand-legs" - - - - 2/4 



Thrips - - - - - - - : . 275 



