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matters interesting to agriculture ; with interesting an 1 

 useful statements of comparisons between the agriculture 

 of Algeria and the agriculture of Spain, and recommenda- 

 tions of innovations by which the productions of Spanish 

 lands might be improved. By the Government it was 

 recognised that the report by the multiplicity of matters 

 which it embraced, and the character of its details, con- 

 stituted it an excellent agricultural and forestal description 

 of Algeria, such as was not to be found in the Spanish 

 language, if such an account of that country existed in any 

 language ; and it was by Royal order published at the 

 expense of the Ministry de Fomento, under the title of* La 

 produccion Agncola y Forestal de la Argelia en el 

 Concuso de Argel de 1881 The Agricultural and Forestal 

 Productions of Algeria in the Colonial Exhibition in 

 Algiers in 1881. In an introduction is given an account 

 of the country ; and there is added a list of the more 

 important of the works, printed books, pamphlets, and 

 periodicals made use of by the Commissioners in the pre- 

 paration of their report, constituting a valuable bibliography 

 of Algeria. Details are given of agricultural exploitations 

 in different parts of the colony, and of the works of 

 irrigation ; descriptions of the cattle, oxen, sheep, arid 

 goats ; of asses, mules, and horses ; of camels, dromedaries, 

 and swift dromedaries, meh'iris ; of poultry and domestic 

 animals under acclimation ; accounts of machinery, 

 implements, and tools, including hydraulic apparatus, 

 steam engines, and wind-mills ; detailed notices of agri- 

 cultural and forestal products, and industrial manufactures 

 connected with these, including sericulture, apiculture, 

 pisciculture, &c., horticulture, arboriculture, the culture of 

 the eucalyptus, and that of the cork tree, and the collec- 

 ting of esparto grass ; and agricultural and forestal maps 

 of Algeria, including charts of the orange producing region, 

 of that of the vine arid the olive, of the zone of the esparto 

 grasses, and of the so-called mer d'alfa. 



In further illustration of the breadth and comprehensive- 



