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The evident conclusion from the above facts is that wine colored with 
fuchsin, even when the coloring-matter is perfectly pure, produces that 
dangerous disease of the kidneys called albuminuria. M. Grandeau 
calls for a stringent execution of the law against parties thus tamper- 
ing with the lives and health of the wine-consuming public. He sug- 
gests that honest merchants shall refuse to purchase the adulterated 
wines ; and that they shall expose all manufacturers convicted, by anal- 
ysis of their wares, of this. destructive fraud. The station over which he 
presides will receive no specimen for analysis except upon condition of 
exposing the malefactors. 
INSUFFICIENT CEREAL PRODUCTION IN GERMANY.—The growing in- 
sufficiency of grain-crops to meet home consumption in Germany gives 
rise to much anxiety in Berlin. According to the Berlin Mercantile 
Report, the excess of grain imports over exports during the past year were 
as follows: Wheat, 1,500,000 centners; rye, 11,000,000 centners; barley, 
2,133,000 centners; oats and corn, from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 cent- 
ners; total, 16,000,000 centners, or about 17,636,300 pounds, valued at 
$27,370,000. 
This insufficiency, by some, is attributed to economic mismanagement. 
It is feared that Germany, like other agricultural countries, will soon 
find her production below her home consumption, a natural consequence 
of the growing preponderance of other industries. The Berlin National 
Gazette says: 
Of course, the advantages derived herefrom ought to balance the deficiencies men- 
tioned; otherwise the country would, by continually paying in cash the excess of 
imports of articles of food as well as of manufacture, gradually became impoverished. 
Many predict this fate for Germany. It is but too true that since the Franco-Prussian 
war the trade-balance has been anything but satisfactory, and an improvement cannot be 
looked for in the exports of raw products, notably grain, so much as in that of manu- 
factures. Therefore the turning of our neighbors’ attention more particularly to agri- 
culture is a decided advantage to our manufacturing interests. 
It is claimed that the increase of acreage is not in proportion to popu- 
lation, and that even a more extensive culture will not meet the increased 
consumption. Cultivable land in Germany is already quite fully utilized, 
and agricultural production consequently limited in its increase. The 
area gained by clearing and reclaiming land does not exceed what is 
appropriated to manufacturing. Within the last few years railways 
have taken up several hundred thousand acres. 
The raising of grain is becoming less profitable from year to year, 
and farmers are turning their attention to sugar-beets, tobacco, ole- 
aginous plants, fruits, vegetables, &c. Increase in stock-raising ne- 
cessitates a more extensive culture of forage-plants. It is said that the 
area of profitable cultivation has actually decreased, while the cost of 
labor has advanced. 
In a recent work published in Germany on “ Feeding and Food for 
Farm Animals,” by Dr. Schmoller, it is asserted that while the produc- 
tion of meat and milk has by no means been commensurate with the 
increase of population, the wool product has greatly exceeded actual 
demand. To illustrate this, Schmoller cites for Prussia— 
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