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CONTENTS 



English Orchards - - - - - - - i 



Our Imports of Feeding Stuffs - - - . . n 



The Spotted Fly-catcher - - - - - - 18 



The Sclerstome Worms of the Horse - ^ - - 21 



The Oats Supply of the United Kingdom - - - 25 



Agricultural Holdings in Germany - - - - 29 



Wheat Cultivation in the United States - - - 36 



A Clover Fungus - - - - ~ - 39 



Four Allies of the Winter Moth - - - - 50 



Agricultural and Miscellaneous Notes :— 



Agricultural — 



Injurious Insects and the Fruit Crop. Meadow Saffron. Exhausted 57 

 Pasturage in the United States. The Slieep Industry of Oregon. 

 Russian Agricultural Credit Associations. Live Stock in Uru- 

 guay. The Argentine Live Stock and Dairy Industries. Pro- 

 duction of Milk in Sweden. 



Miscellaneous — " • 



The Sugar Industry of Russia. Insurance of Cattle in Germany. 69 

 Live Stock in Germany. Danish Tuberculosis Law. Exportation 

 of Flour from Germany. Spanish Trade in Agricultural Produce. 

 Agricultural Education in Spain. The Prussian Agricultural 

 Budget for 1898-99. Importation of British Breeding Stock into 

 Canada. The Price of Bread. Woods and Forests in Denmark. 

 Imports of Cider and Perry. A French Agricultural Co-operative 

 Society. French Import Duties on Horses, French Import Duty 

 uoPigs. Suspension of Wheat Duties in France, Italy and Spain. 

 Export of Russian Sheep to France. Meat Export from Denmark 

 and Sweden. Horse Breeding in Prussia. French Margarine and 

 Butter Duties. Danish Butter Exports in 1897. Importation of 

 Plants into Italy. Tasmanian Agricultural Department. Cana- 

 dian Fruit Exports. Grain Silos m Roumania. French Agricul- 

 tural Co-operative Societies. Ornithological Exhibition at St. 

 Petersburg. United States Trade with Cuba. 



Reports on Foreign Crops - - - - - 94 



United States. India. Argentina. Austria. Hungary. Den- 

 mark. France. Germany. Italy. Belgium. Roumania. 

 Russia. Sweden. Ontario. 



Parliamentary Publications - - - - - 108 



Prices of Live Stock Under Weighing of Cattle Act - 124 



Prices of Agricultural Produce - - - - 129 



Diseases of Animals - - - - - - 140 



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 Secretary, Board of Agriculture, ^, JFIiitehall Place, S.JV. 



Messrs. Laughton & Co., 1, Essex Street, Strand, JF.C, are the sole Contractors for 

 Advertisements in the Journal, and communications respecting Advertisements inust he 

 addressed to that firm, and not to the Board of Agriculture. 



