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INDEX. 



Page 



Ontario : Agricultural College, experiments in feeding swine 213 



Creameries and cheese factories 513 



Crops 260, 528 



Harvest and live stock, 1899 528 



Orchards, see under Fruit. 



Ordnance survey maps 96,239,265,428,557 



Ostriches, number in Argentina, 1895 354 



Paraffin emulsion for spraying 1, 59, 344 



Paraguay, cattle industry 100 



Parasitic diseases of poultry 157 



Paris green for spraying 2, 59, 345 



Parsley, prices... 139,283,425,554 



Parsnips, prices ... ... 425, 554 



Pasture, see Grass. 



Peaches, prices 



Peai s : Cold storage 



Imports 



Prices 



Trees injured by Bacillus amylovorus... 

 „ „ „ fruit tree beetle 



„ „ „ pear sawfly I 



„ „ „ wood leopard moth . . . 

 Peas : Area and production, 1899 ... 



Experiments with seed peas 



Imports 



Prices 



Canada, exports, 1896-8 



Manitoba, production 1899 



Holland, area, 1897 ... 



Russia, area and production, 1898 



Sweden, production, 1899 



Pensions, old age, in Germany and Denmark 

 Peru, demand for agricultural machinery . . . 



Phoma disease of swedes 



Phylloxera in Sicily 



Pigs, see Swine. 



Pine-apples, prices , 139 



Plants, shrubs, etc., imports 245 



Pleuro- pneumonia, quarterly returns, Great Britain ... 140, 284, 426, 555 



Ireland 141, 285, 427, 556 



Plough, experiment with turf plough 443 



Plums : Cold storage 86 



Imports 463 



Prices 283 



Trees injured by fruit-tree beetle 65 



Poland : Crops 255, 405 



Yield of cereals, 1899 405 



Population: Australia, West, agricultural 517 



Spain ... 401 



Pork : Experiments in production of pork 363 



Imports 192, 457 



value per cwt 133, 277, 419, 548 



Prices 130, 274, 416, 544 



Denmark, trade ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 232 



Portugal, condition of agriculture 509 



Post-office savings banks 142, 286, 429, 558 



Potash solutions for spraying ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 



Potatoes : Area 1899 181,190 



„ and production, 1899 ... 433 



Ireland, 1898 ... 123 



1899 533 



( onsumption in Ireland - m 360 



Experiments in manuring ... ... ... ... ... \qc) 



Imports v I/" 'Z \\\ 192,463 



139, 283 

 87 



192, 463 

 139 

 67 

 65 

 341 

 195 

 433 

 362 

 462 

 139, 283 

 95 

 528 

 369 

 376 

 527 

 263 

 403 

 448 

 396 



