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Emigration. The number of persons that left 

 for countries in Europe in 1883 was 98,665, 

 against 93,930 in 1882. Most of these are 

 field-laborers who cross the frontier for two 

 months, during harvest-time, in France, Aus- 

 tria, and Switzerland, and then return. In the 

 same year there left for Northern Africa 6,123, 

 against 7,773 the previous year ; for the United 

 States and Canada, 21,337, against 18,669; for 

 La Plata, 26,075, against 24,526 ; and for other 

 American countries, 15,976, against 16,500; 

 together, 63,388, against 59,695; for South 

 Africa, Asia, and Oceania, 925, against 164. 



Silk. The Government issued in September 

 a decree allowing the temporary admission for 

 mixed silk manufacture for export of high num- 

 bers of twist. At Como, 2,000 looms manu- 

 facture such goods ; at Milan, 1,500 ; and it was 

 estimated that this measure would save for 

 each loom seventeen lire per annum. With- 

 out this privilege it would have been difficult 

 to compete with Lyons, where temporary ad- 

 mission has been introduced for a similar pur- 

 pose. 



The silk-crop of 1884 was notably smaller 

 than its immediate successor, as the ensuing 

 statement shows: 



COCOONS PRODUCED. 



SILK-EGGS CULTIVATED. 



The movement was distributed as follows, in 

 millions of lire : 



The American trade with Italy shows a re- 

 markable change in both directions in a single 

 twelvemonth : 



Commerce* The amount of exports and im- 

 ports for two years, in millions of lire, is shown 

 in the following table: 



Events of 1884. Cholera made its first serious 



