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CONTENTS 



I'ACE 



English Orchards - - - . - 145 



Imports of the Cereal Year - - . - - 152 



The Essential Qualities of Good Cider - - - 156 



The Swallow - - - - - 161 



Agricultural Returns of Great Britain, 1898 165 



The French Dairy Industry - - - - 172 



Aphides - - - - - - - - 177 



The Pear Midge - - - - - - - 186 



Fungi Injurious to Tomatoes - - - - 192 



Strawberry Mildew - - - - - - 198 



Agricultural and Miscellaneous Notes - - - 202 



Agricultural — 



Wages of Agricultural Labour in 1897. Effects on Butter of Cotton- 

 seed and Sesame-seed Oilcake. Experiments with Basic Slag on 

 Clay Land. Farm Animals in the United States. Beet Sugar 

 Industry in the United States. Beet Sugar Industry in Russia. 

 Live Stock in Guatemala. The Danish Harvest of 1897. 

 Agricultural Statistics of India. Agriculture in Tripoli. Horse 

 Breeding in Italy. Irish Agricultural Co-operative Societies. 

 Agricultural Labour in July. 



Miscellaneous — 



Miscellaneous Agricultural Imports and Exports. German Potato 

 Products. Agricultural Machinery in South Russia. Duties on 

 Agricultural Articles Imported into Russia. WarsaAV Wool 

 Fair. Steamboat Service from Denmark to England. Trans- 

 port Charges in the United States. Legislation Concerning 

 Fertilisers in the United States. Bacon Trade of Sweden and 

 Denmark. A.gricultural Insurance in Bavaria. French Agri- 

 cultural Warrants Law. The Margarine Induwtry in Belgium. 

 United States Export Trade from Gulf Ports. State Aid to 

 Prussian Agriculture. International Poultry Exhibition at St. 

 Petersburg. Russian Poultry. Forest Resourcesof the United 

 States. Italian Wheat Duty. Roumanian Vineyards and 

 Orchards. Anthrax in Foreign I Wool and Hides. Dutch Cheese 

 Trade. Export of Tallow, to Russia. 



Keports on Foreign Crops - - - - - 254 



United States. India. Russia. Denmark. France. Germany. 

 Italy. Austria. Hungary. Roumania. ■ Nova Scotia. 

 Ontario. Manitoba. 



Parliamentary Publications ----- 263 

 Prices of Live Stock Under Weighing of Cattle Act - 269 

 Prices of Agricultural Produce - - - - 274 

 Diseases of Animals - - - - - - 284 



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