116 
(44,094,740 pounds,) leaving the stock on hand about the same as last 
year, or 22,000,000 kilograms, (48,504,214 pounds.) White pulverized 
suzar constitutes 56 per cent. of the entire manufacture, against 53 per 
cent. in 1874. The statistics of 1875 show a rapid working of the raw 
material, a great abundance of roots, but a depressed yield of the per cent, 
of sugar, a greatly decreased export of raw sugar, and an increased ex- 
port of the refined article. Later statistics show that for the three 
months closing with January the amount defecated was 919,386,147 
pounds, against 765,094,496 during the same period of the previous year. 
The density of juice was 3.6, against 3.8 the previous year. The export 
amounted to 178,119,144 pounds, a falling off of 104,846,080 pounds com- 
pared with the same period in the previous year. 
FRENCH AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS.—During the first ten months of 
1875 the value of French wines exported amounted to 219,253,000 frances, 
an increase of 24,224,000 francs over the same period of 1874; cereals, 
196,539,000 franes, an increase of 101,000,000 francs; brandy, 67,804,000 
frances, an increase of 9,976,000 frances ; eggs, 41,088,000, an increase of 
7,611,000 franes; brown sugar, 39,298,000 franes, an increase of 9,398 
francs. Butter alone shows a decrease, having declined from 69,969,000 
frances in 1874 to 68,206,000 in 1875. 
WOLVES IN FRANCE.—M. Buffet, minister of the interior, lately is- 
sued acircular to the prefects of several departments of France, recit- 
ing that complaints have reached the central government of the destrue- 
tion of sheep by wolves in several quarters. In one case a farmer had 
lost 100 out of a flock of 397. The attention of the mayors was called 
to the laws authorizing the killing of destructive animals. The de- 
partmental officers are authorized to concert with forest-agents, and with 
lieutenants of wolf-hunting trains, arrangements for general battues. 
The object of the present circular is to arouse the zeal of the rural offi- 
cials in a crusade against these enemies of the farmer, and to secure 
the immunity of sheep-husbandry. 
FRENCH WHAT CROPS.—The French minister of agriculture has 
authorized the publication of statistics in regard to the wheat-crops 
from 1815 to 1874. In 1820 the total production was 125,850,846 bush- 
els, and the consumption 153,105,709, including the amount necessary 
for seeding at the rate of 2.64 bushels per acre. This left a deficiency 
of 27,254,863 bushels. In 1830 the production amounted to 149,786,827 
bushels, and the consumption to 162,859,075 bushels, leaving a deficit of 
12,072,246 bushels. In 1840 the production was 229,524,104 bushels, and 
the ,consumption 190,907,418 bushels, showing a surplus of 28,616,636 
bushels. In 1850 the production amounted to 249,691,233 bushels, and 
the consumption to 221,711,270, a surplus of 27,979,763 bushels. In 
1860 the production was 288,247,664 bushels, the consumption 241,985,- 
945 bushels, and the surplus 46,261,719 bushels. In 1869 the produc- 
tion was 306,381,698 bushels, the consumption 274,252,639 bushels, and 
the surplus 32,066,009 bushels. In 1874 the production was 377,799,- 
440 bushels, the consumption 269,235,158 bushels, and the surplus 108,- 
564,282 bushels. These figures, however, do not coincide with the ex: 
ports and imports of wheat in each of the years. In some cases a large 
surplus or a large deficit was left over, and its effect upon the markets 
was felt in the aggregates of the following years. The Franco-Prus- 
sian war in 1870 prevented the regular tabulation of agricultural sta- 
. tistics, and the figures of 1869 are given instead. Of fifty-three years 
in the period embraced in these statistics, forty years show an excess 
of production, and the following a deficit, viz: 1820, 1822, 1827, 1330, 
