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CONTENTS 



The British Crops of 1898 - - - - - 433 



Imports of Agricultural Produce - - - - 439 



The Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1893 - - 441 . 



The Goldfinch - - - - - - - 451 



Anthrax - - - - - - - - 4 55 



The Large White Butterfly ----- 4i30 



Indian Agricultural Exports - - . . _ 404 



Importation of Dogs into Great Britain - - - 4G7 



The Belgian Agricultural Enquiry of 1895 - - - . , - 4'i2 



Agricultural and Miscellaneous Notes - - - 4-V8 



Aqricultural — 



Agricultural Wages in 1897 and 1898. Eifect of Concentrated 

 Foods on the Production of Milk. Early Maturity of Live Stock 

 Experiments in Pig Feeding. Agriculture and Live Stock in 

 New Zealand. Meat Exports from New Zealand. Exportation of 

 Dairy Produce from New Zealand. Production of Cereals in 

 Portugal. Live Stock in tlie United States. 



Miscellaneous — 



Absorption of Odours by Milk. Irisli Agricultural Banks. 

 Manuring of Gardens. Production of Eggs in Winter. The 

 Economic Condition of the Agricultural Population of Kussia. 

 Agricultural Machinery in the Trans- Caucasus. Skim-milk as 

 Food for Poultry. The Kussian Agricultural Budget of 1899. The 

 Belgian Poultry Industry. German Agricultural Interests. 

 Light Railways in Germany. Disinfection of Hides exported to 

 the United States. Danish Agricultural Loan Societies. Agri- 

 ■cultural Exports of Servia. Exports of Italian Dairy Produce. 

 Milling in Argentina. Italian Walnuts. Lime for Finger and 

 Toe Disease. Unions of Agricultural Labourers. Cultivation of 

 Sugar Beet in Poland. Agricultural Labour in Poland. 

 Preservation of Kussian Forests. Dairying in Ontario. 

 Swedish Butter Exports. 



Eeports on Foreign Crops - - - _ _ 535 



United State?. Argentina. India. France. New South Wales. 

 Belgium. Poland. Sweden. AustrpJasia. Ontario. Manitoba. 

 Cape Colony. 



Prices of Live Stock Under Weighing of Cattle Act - 536 

 . Prices of Agricultural Produce - - . _ 545 

 Diseases of Animals - - - - - - 556 



Index and Title Page to Volume IY. 



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