XXll INDEX. 



Sheep {Continued) : ■ Page 



New Zealand, nmnher, 1897 491 



Russia, exports to France ... ... ... .. 87 



JSpa i n, tmde ... ... ..w ... ... ... ... ... 77 



L/nited ^States, mimher, IS98 ... 212 



1899 ... 496 



Industry in Oregon 64 



Uruguay, number ... ... ... ... ... ... 66 



Skins, see Bides. 



Slag (basic) on clay land 208,308 



Slaughter-houses : Receipts and expenses of local authorities 409 



„ „ „ „ Scotland 122 



Report of Tuberculosis Commission 11& 



Sleeping disease of tomatoes . 192 



Slime-flux .. ... , 151 



Somerville, W., manuring for mutton ... 300 



Manuring of gardens ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 499 



South Australia : Honey exports 338 



Wheat harvest, 1897-8 532 



Spain : Customs duty on cereals and potatoes, suspension 86 



Education, agricultural ... .. ... ... 79 



Trade in agricultural produce ... , . . ■ 77 



Sparrows and swallows 163^ 



Speir, J. , eftect of foods on milk production ... ... ... ... 480 



Spelt : J5e/(/iw«t, area and production, 1895 ... 473 



Russia, area and production, 1897 ... 105 



Spergula, area and production in Belgium, 1895 ... ... ... .,«, 476 



Spinach, prices 139, 283, 426 



Spirits, production from maize in the United States 394 



Spraying, against insects and fungi... ... 48, 55, 57, 148, 178, 194, 201, 463 



Starch: (rm>i«?«.y, prices and exports ... 232 



?7m^ec? /S^a^e*, production from maize ... ... ... ... ... 393 



State aid to agriculture : Grants in aid of education ... ... ... 263 



Loans to Irish agricultural banks 229 



Australia, Queensland, encouragement to sugar industry ... ... 399* 



Victoria, bounty on exports of honey 338 



Denmark, grant for slaughterhouses 88 



Grant to steamboat services for dairy produce ... ... ... 240 



Germany, aid to Prussian agriculture ... 80, 247 



Horse-breeding in Prussia ... ... ... ... ... ... 88 



Insurance (State) in Bavaria 244 



Light railways, subsidies ... 512 



New Zealand, free cold storage for butter 493 



Russia, alleviation of agricultural distress ... . . 503^ 



Sugar industry ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 69 



Spain, education 79 



Steamboat service for dairy produce from Denmark ... ... ... 240 



Strawberries, prices 139 



StraAvberf-y mildew 198 



Straw, imports ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 446 



Straw -plaiting, exports 232 



Sugar : Australia, Queensland, area and production of cane ... ... 367, 399 



Belgium, area and production of beet, 1895 474 



Yield of beet, 1898 ... 529' 



(rerma^i;?/, area and production of beet, 1897 .. . ... 405 



India, acreage under cane, 1896-7 221 



Exports, 1897-8 ... ... ... 464 



j^im*a, beet-sugar industry ... ... ". 69,217 



Cultivation of beet in Poland 521 



f/m^ct^ AS^rtif 65, beet-sugar industry ... ... ... ... ... 213 



Sulphate of copper solutions 48, 148, 178, 194, 201 



Sulphate of iron 149 



Sulphate of potash, manuring for mutton . 311 



Sulphide of potassium ... 195 



Superphosphate, manuring for mutton ... ... ... 307 



Swallow ... ... 161 



Sweden: Bacon trade ... ... "... V 243^ 



Butt6r exports ::. 68,524 



