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Eggs : Page 



Austria-Hungary, trade ... ... ... ... ... ... 238 



France, trade of Normandy 69 



Sweden, exports 493 



United States, exports 502 



Ensilage of potatoes 37, 234 



Erysipelas of swine 113 



Experiments : Effects of food supplied to cows upon milk and 



butter 347 



Ensilage of potatoes 37, 234 



Farmyard manure, storage ... ... ... ... ... ... 145 



Feeding stuffs and preservatives 121 



Finger and toe in turnips ... ... ... ... ... ... 345 



Green manuring 1 



Hop drying temperatures ... ... ... ... ... ... 385 



Lucerne as a feeding crop 218 



Nitragin ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 



Potato cultivation in Ireland ... ... 505 



„ disease, by Irish Land Commission 261 



Silt of rivers as manure in India 351 



Swine, feeding 79 



Exports of British and Irish agricultural produce 301 



Falkland Islands, sheep -breeding 365 



Farcy, see Glanders 



Feeding stuffs : Effects of food supplied to cattle on milk and 



butter 347 



Experiments on feeding swine 79 



Experiments in Ireland ... ... ... ... ... ... 121 



Lucerne, value of as a fodder crop 218 



Regulations for analysis 42 



Returns of analyses, 1897 443 



Belgium, legislation concerning adulteration 88 



Denmark, production of fodder, 1896 229 



France, area under fodder crops, 1892 322 



Fertilisers : Experiments in Ireland 121 



Experiments on the amount removed from the soil by lucerne 218 



Farmyard manure, storage . . 145 



Regulations for analysis, 1897 42 



Returns of analyses, 1897 443 



Sale of, in Ireland 382 



Silt of rivers as manure 351 



Belgium, legislation concerning adulteration 88 



Martinique, importation 97 



Figs, prices 139, 282 



Finger and toe on turnips, experiments at the Durham College of 



Science 345 



Fir aphis {Lachmis pini) 476 



Fir beetle ( Pissodes notatus ) 46 



Fish, consumption in the United Kingdom ... 299 



Flax : Number of scutching mills in Ireland 266 



Canada, Manitoba, area, 1897 254 



Production, 1897 530 



France, area, 1892 321 



Bounties on hemp and flax, area 244, 516 



Hungary, area 483 



United States, flax-growing in Washington 519 



Flour: Exports 304 



Imports 124, 152, 438 



France, co-operative milling 173 



United States, exports 501 



,, „ from New Orleans 78 



Flowers, co-operative distillation of scents in France .. 176 



Fodders, see Feeding stuffs 



