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horse breeders in the Northwest Territories; numbers of live stock in United King- 

 dom; imports and exports of animals and animal products of Germany; number of 

 animals in India; live stock in Algeria in 1902; prices of fat sheep in Australia; num- 

 ber of sheep in New Zealand in 1903; Argentina wool statistics; consumption of 

 wool in England; wool sales and wool prices in Australia; the wool-combing indus- 

 try in Bradford, England; sterilization of meat in Belgium; how shoddy is made; 

 injurious effect of German meat-inspection law; decline in Germany's meat 

 imports; new meat-inspection law in Germany; cost of meat in Germany; the object 

 of German meat restrictions; slaughterhouse prices in Germany; increased French 

 duties on cattle and meats; horse meat in Paris; meat statistics in Hawaii; meat- 

 canning factory in Veracruz; Argentina's meat supply; inspection of cattle in Argen- 

 tina; American pork no longer prohibited in Turkey; meat exports of New Zealand 

 in 1902; butter industry in the Argentine Republic; butter-making machinery in 

 Canada; dairy products of Manitoba in 1903; American and Canadian cheese in 

 England; purification of milk by ozonization; exports of Russian butter and eggs; 

 butter and egg production of Europe; condensed eggs in South Africa; poultry 

 marketed in Manitoba in 1903; egg-laying contest; the biggest incubator; intro- 

 duction of musk oxen into Norway; ostrich farming in Australia; hides in Java; 

 goatskins in Java; Austrian rice for horse feed in the United States; sheep-feeding 

 plant in Washington; and sweepstakes Angoras. 



Crop Reporter ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Bureau of Statistics Crop Reporter, vol. 6, Nos. 7, 

 pp. 49-56; 8, pp. 57-64; 8, Sup., pp. 65-72; 9, pp. 73-80). — These numbers for 

 November and December, 1904, and January, 1905, contain the usual statistical data 

 concerning crops in the United States and foreign countries. No. 7 contains also a 

 report on the tobacco crop by types; No. 8, the annual report of the statistician for 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1904; the supplement to No. 8, statistical tables show- 

 ing the acreage, production, and value of the principal farm crops for 1904, a report 

 on the rice crop of the United States, and a report on the average price of tobacco 

 classified as (1) cigar types, and (2) chewing, smoking, snuff, and export types; and 

 No. 9, the hearing before the committee on agriculture of the House of Representa- 

 tives in regard to the reports on cotton acreage and production issued by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. The committee was of the opinion that such estimates were 

 honestly, intelligently, and as accurately made as possible. 



International sugar situation, F. R. Ruttee ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Bin-run of Sta- 

 tistics Bui. 30, pp. 98, pis. 't, fig. 1). — By the terms of the Brussels Convention which 

 took effect September 1, 1903, all government aid granted directly or indirectly to 

 exported sugar was abolished by the principal sugar exporting countries of Europe, 

 Russia excepted. Statistics and other data bearing upon this withdrawal of bounties 

 are presented and discussed in this bulletin. 



It is believed that the most obvious effects of the sugar legislation prior to the 

 Brussels Convention Were the artificially high prices for sugar obtained in the coun- 

 tries of production and the artificially low prices prevailing in foreign markets. As 

 an illustration of this it is stated that while the average price of refined sugar, during 

 the year ended August 31, 1903, was less than 4 cts. per lb. in the United Kingdom, 

 and only 4£ cts. per lb. in the United States, the price in Germany was Q\ cts. per lb. 

 and in France over 8 cts. per lb. At present sugar brings only 4 cts. per lb. in Ger- 

 many, 5 cts. in France, and 6 cts. in Austria. 



( )ne effect of the Brussels Convention has been to increase the consumption of 

 sugar in Europe. During 1902-3 only 42 per cent of the sugar produced in Germany 

 was consumed at home, while during the year following the Brussels Convention 58 

 per cent was consumed within the Empire. The most important features in the 

 present sugar situation are believed to be more equal conditions of competition in the 

 world's market between beet sugar and cane sugar, and the increased consumption 

 of sugar in Europe. 



