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CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



The Storage of Farmyard Manure - - - - 145 



Imports of the Cereal Year - - - - - 152 



Canadian Agriculture - - - - - - " 155 



Condition of Agriculture in India - - - 166 



Co-operation amongst French Farmers - - - 171 



The Starling - - - - - - - 178 



Agricultural Development of the last twenty years - - 182 



Agricultural Eeturns of Great Britain, 1897 - - - 189 



Injurious Insects and Fungi - - - - - 196 



The Asparagus Beetle. The Pea Thrips. Gooseberry Blight. The 

 Apple-Blossom Weevil. The Y Moth. 



Agricultural and Miscellaneous Notes : — ■ 

 Agricultural— 



Consumption of Wheat in Japan and China. Cattle Hearing in 212 

 Mexico. Agricultural Hirings. Value of Lucerne as a Fodder Crop. 

 Caper Industry of Roquevaire. German Miigiriue Law. Intro- 

 ducdon of the Carrot into England. Anglo- German Grain Trade. 

 Agriculture ia Denmark. Horse Breeding in India. Agriculture 

 in Paraguay. 



Miscellaneous — 



Ensilage of Potatoes. Keeping of Cider. An Italian Agricultural 

 School. Austro-Hungirian Live Stock Trade. Austro-Hungar^ n 

 Egg Trade. A Co-operative Milk Factory in Nev/ England. 

 Danish Condensed Milk. An Italian Rural Co-operative Society. 

 Farm Animals in Chili. Hop Cultivation in Russia. French 

 Bounties on Flax and Hemp. Agricultural Exports of Western 

 Australia. Bavarian Hop and Barley Show. Rooks and Seed 

 Wheat. Danish Batter Exports in 1896, Irish Agricultural 



Horses. Land Banks in Austria. 



Reports on Foreign Crops - - - - - 248 



United States. India. Austria. Hungary. Denmark. France. 



Germany. Roumania. Iialy, Manitoba. Russia. 



Parliamentary Publications - - - - - 256 



Prices of Agricultural Produce- - - - . 269 



Diseases of Animals - - - - - . - 283 



Acreage under Hops - - - - - / - 285 



NOTICE, 



Communications respecting the contents of this Journal should he addressed to 

 the Secretary^ Boai^d of Agriculture, 4, Whitehall Place, S.W. 



Messrs. Laughton <£• Oo., 1, Essex Street, Strand, W.C., are the sole Contractors 

 for Advertisements in the Journal, and communications respecting Advertisement i 

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