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INDEX. 



Page 



Ireland: Agricultural returns, 1896 ... 265 



Animals exported to Great Britain 123 



Bee-keeping 383- 



Commission on horse-breeding, report 263- 



Congested districts board, report ... 2G-3-, 536' 



Co-operation in the poultry and egg industry 341 



Co-operative dairying 26,266 



Diseases of animals, quarterly returns 141, 284, 426, 557 



Education, agricultural, appendix to return, 1895 121 



Honey, production 266^ 



Horses, agricultural ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 247 



Potatoes, experiments 261, 505 



Poultry- rearing 383 



Sales of seeds and manures ... ... ... ... ... ... 382 



Italy : Agricultural loan societies 96, 241 



Agriculture in Southern Italy 75 



Corn, reduction of customs duty 514 



Crops _ ... ... ... 106, 254, 395 



Dairy industry ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 496 



Fruit, export to Great Britain , 237 



Harvest, wheat, 1897 ... 395 



Lombardy cheese ... ...... ... ... ... ... 65 



Machinery, agricultural 98- 



Portici agricultural school 236 



Pulse and vegetables 512' 



Japan, consumption of wheat 212' 



Jute, exports from India ... 167 



Kainit ... ... ... ... 47^ 



Labour, agricultural hirings, Whitsuntide, 1897 216 



Changes in hours and wages, 1895 115 



1896 400' 



France .- Associations for mutual assistance 177 



Lamb, prices 130, 273, 415, 546 



Land : Discussion on holdings at the International Statistical 



Institute 367 



Holdings in Great Britain, 1895 IIO* 



„ Ireland, 1896 ... ... 265- 



Land-tax assessments 40- 



I^rance, size and tenure of farms 450 



India, land revenue 167 



Neiu South Wales, agricultural holdings 376- 



Lapwing ( Vanellus crista tus) 11 



Lard : Imports 124, 153, 438 



Neiu Orleans, e^'^OTlr^ ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 78 



Larsen, experiment in green manuring 9 



Leaflets, list of 144, 288, 432, 560 



Leather, J. W., experiments with, silt of rivers as manure 352 



Legislation :• Fertilisers and feeding stuffs, regulations ... 42 



Belgium : Adulteration of fertilisers and feeding-stufts ... 88 



Importation of animals, decrees 95, 509 



Cawarfrt .- Dairy products ... 513 



Gambling in prices 116 



France : Agricultural warrants Bill 349- 



Margarine law 85 



6rm/ia»v/, margarine law ... ... ... ... ... ... 223 



Neiu Zealand, horticnltme .... 79' 



United States, forestry ; 384 



