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A further consideration is the improvement in the quality of the | 
wool. In 1804 it sold at 16 to 26 cents per pound; in 1867, 32 to 65 
cents. 
With these results may be contrasted the following: In Prussia there 
were for every 100 of population in— 
Goats. 
Year. | Horses. | Cattle. | Sheep. Swine. 
Reema pts) 8 ig ke dag, Be | 18.0 58.0 | 122.0 29.0 | Not given. 
“2 NG RRS leg AE: 1-7, a Heide 38. 6 79.9 14.7 | 1.3 
LL SRA me FOR eoiae. Con a 10.8 33.1| 103.9 14.9 24 
7 Tre 1 CTR NR Blan ARR ge aR a Pe AEE | 9.5 30.2 95.5 | 19,2 | 5.3 
In Saxony, for every 100 of population, there were, in 17638, 197.7 
heads of farm animals; in 1834, 83.4; and in 1858, 61.0. Coant Lippe 
has estimated that for this country the present annual increase of meat- 
consumption is 3,590,000 pounds, which, even if the rate of increase of 
population be no greater, will in ten years amount to 330,000 cwt. 
Prussia had, in 1867, for the same number of inhabitants, only half 
as many heads of farm animals as in 1802, and an aggravating circum- 
stance is the fact that the quality of the meat does not make up for the 
proportionate decrease of quantity. ; 
Schmoller gives the consumption of meat per capita for 1802, 36.8 
pounds; 1816, 24.8; 1840, 38.1; and for 1870, 38.5, while from 165 to 
220 per annum are required. 
A similar retrogression is observable in other countries. Bohemia, 
for example, had, in 1870, 1,585,799 head of cattle, which is 13.6 per 
cent. less than in 1857. The decrease was, bulls, 3.7; cows, 9.4; oxen, 
18.2; and calves, 18.5. , ; 
With regard to the yield of milk in Prussia, Schmoller says that 
there is not so much produced per capita now as there was in 1802. 
For this year the daily production was .80 quart; 1816, .72; 1840, .60; 
and in 1867, .57. 
Count Lippe estimates the deficiency of milk and dairy products in 
Saxony at 62,422,277 gallons, and the yearly increase of demand at 
4,238,935 gallons. 
THE COLORADO BEETLE IN EUROPE.—M. Adam Miiller, secretary 
of the Bavarian Agricultural Association, in his monthly report for 
July, 1876, upon the authority of the Weser Gazette, states that a po- 
tato-beetle (Doryphora decem-lineata) had been found in a sack of corn 
on board a steamer that arrived at Bremen from New York. This an- 
nouncement has created great excitement on Continental Europe. M. 
Grandeau, director of the eastern agronomic station of France, through 
the columns of the Journal Pratique d’Agriculture, calls upon the min- 
ister of agriculture to take immediate measures to arouse French far- 
mers to a united effort for the destruction of this terrible enemy. 
SWEDISH AGRICULTURE.—Hon. C. Lewinhaupt, Swedish and Nor- 
wegian minister, in a communication addressed to the Commissioner, 
gives the following statistics of Swedish agriculture. This industry oc- 
cupies half the population, and is under the department of the interior, 
but the special administration of this trust by the government is con- 
fided to an agricultural committee, of which the president of the 
national agricultural society is chairman. The paid members of this 
committee are a secretary and twenty agricultural chemists and engi- 
neers. In Norway, the department of the interior exercises direct su- 
pervision of agriculture, without any intermediate board. 
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