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INDEX. 



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Peas : Prices ^ 139, 282, 255 



Thrips ... ... 200 



Canada, Manitoba, production, 1897 530 



i??«55/<^, production, 1897 ... ... 389 



Veew\t{Vanclhis cristatus) ' 11 



Pfeiffer, experiments in the storage of farmyard manure 148^ 



Phosphates, American 94, 510 



Production 510 



Pigeons, number in France, 1892 ' ... 324 



Pigs, see Sivine. 



Pine aphis <') ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 476 



Pine-apples, prices ... 139,282,424,555 



Pines attacked by fir-beetles 49 



Plants, prohibition of importation into Greece 518 



Pleuro-pneumonia, quarterly returns, Great Britain ... 140, 283, 425, 556 



Ireland 141, 284, 426, 557 



Plover ( Van dlus cristatus) ... 11 



Plums : Prices 282 



Hungarji, number of plum trees, 1895 351 



Pneumonia of the pig 113 



Poor-rate returns, Scotland. 1895-6 118 



Population, agricultural : France 455 



Germany^ 327 



Pork : Imports ' 124, 153, 438 



Prices ;.. 130, 273, 415, 546 



Deumarl; exports 229' 



Portici (Italy), agricultural school 236 



Post office savings banks 142, 286, 427 



Potatoes : Area, 1897 189' 



,, in the world, 1873 and 1893 183 



Consumption in the United Kingdom 296- 



Disease, experiments by Irish Land Commission 281 



EnsiLage ' 37, 234 



Experiments in cultivation ... 261, 505 ■. 



Exports 304 



Imports 124, 153, 438 



Prices 139, 424, 555 



Production, average, 1886-95 109 



1897 433 



Australia, South, area and production 487 



Belgiura, production, 1897 392 



Canada, Manitoba, area, 1897 254 



,, ,, ,, and production, 1897 .. 530 



Cape Colony, production, 1896-7 529 



Z>emHf/.7:, production, 1896 104,229 



France, area, 1892, and average production per acre 320 



Export from Normandy 70 



Ger7na7iy, production, 1897 ... ... ... 393 



Hungary, area, and production ... 482 



/to^?/, production ... 513 



Servia, area, 1893 491 



United States, area and production, 1897 521 



production, 1897 ... ... 387 



Poultry : Co-operation in the Irish poultrj' industry 341 



Fowl fever (^«^er'i;^is-) ' 357 



Imports of poultry and game 124, 153, 438- 



Rearing in Ireland ■ 383 



Canada, Manitoba, number, 1897 531 



number, 1892 ... 324 



Industry of Normandy ... ... 68 



South A^istjrdia, mmiheT 518 



Prices : Animals 125, 269, 410, 537 



Corn 134, 277, 419, 550 



Causes affecting value 182 



India, prices of wheat, rice, millet 169; 



