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CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



The GrRAiN Harvest of 1897 - - - - - 289 



Consumption of Food Products in the United Kingdom - 293 



Exports of British and Irish Agricultural Produce - 301 



The Mole. By J. E. Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S. - - - 306 



The White or Barn Owl - - - - - 314 



French Decennial Agricultural Inquiry of 1892 - - 318 



Agricultural Population of Germany - . - 327 



The Eed Spider, or Spinning Mite - - - - 334 



An Orchid Bug ------- 339 



Agricultural and Miscellaneous Notes : — 



Agricultural — 



Co-operation in the Irish Poultry and Egg Industry. Sugar Beet in 341 

 the United States. Experiments upon Finger and Toe in Turnips. 

 Argentine Wool Trade. Effects of Foods on Milk and Butter. 

 French Agricultural Warrants Bill. Agricultural Inquiry in 

 Hungary. Silt of Rivers as Manure. Agriculture in Western 

 Australia. Supply of Wool in the United States. Inter- Colonial 

 Agricultural Conference in Australia. Fowl Fever. Agriculture in 

 Buenos Ay res. Wheat in France. Dairy Exports from Victoria. 

 Sheep Breeding in the Falkland Islands. 



Miscellaneous — 



International Statistical Institute. Russian Customs Tariff on 366 

 Agricultural Machinery. Locomotives on Highways. Railfeisen 

 Banks in Austria, Granaries in Prussia. Agricultural Holdings 

 in New South Wales. Sugar Beet in Australia. Mildew of Vines. 

 Fruit Growing in British Columhia. Dairy Trade of New Zealand. 

 Western Australian Agricultural Statistics. A Co-operative Dairy 

 in Flanders. Margarine in Norway. German Agricultural Co- 

 operative Societies. Co-operative Farming in the United Kingdom. 

 Sales of Seeds and Manures in Ireland. Poultry-Rearing and Bee- 

 Keeping in Ireland. Live Stock in Queensland. Forestry 

 Legislation in the United States. Hop Drying Temperatures. 

 Agriculture in Alaska. 



Eeports on Foreign Crops - - - - - 387 



United States. Russia. Austria. Argentina. Belgium. France. 

 Germany. Hungary. Italy. Roumania. 



Parliamentary Publications - - - - - 396 



Prices of Agricultural Produce - - - - 410 



Diseases of Animals - - - - ^ - 425 



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