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my knowledge, for 1,500 pesetas, had 88 pesetas law expenses, including 
chemieal manure, which can be bought here at 6 c. per stock, and lasting 
for 3 years, can be recommended. ‘The cost of planting an * obrada ” of 
1,000 stocks, including the price of the American vine, is about 75 
pesetas, and for working the ground about 25 pesetas for each successive 
year. "In the third year after planting the riparia (American vine) it is 
grafted at a cost of about 25 pesetas per 1,000 stocks, and the stocks 
now begin to yield, but only a small ero The yield, after five years 
( reckoned from the grafting) may be estimated as 5 hectolitres (13°755 
bushels) per 1,000 stocks; after 10 years at 8 hectolitres (or, say 22 
pa without E With manuring the yield can be raised to 
e the amou 
« The fe rility of the land, of course, depends upon its fruit-bearing 
qualities, 4.e., chemical composition, and land should not, therefore, be 
bought unless the analysis as to phosphates, chalk, potassium, &c. is 
satisfactory.” (F.O. 1893. Annual Series. No. 1,282.) 
Gum Tragacanth— The piiueipal source of this product is Asia 
aera though it has long been known to have been yielded by a large 
area in Persia; of late the latter source seems to have been largely 
a ved 
TRACT from the Report for the year 1892 on the Trade of Baghdad 
asd Dasih, p. 2:— 
* In gum iragacanth, which comes both from Persi and Sulimania, a 
larger trade was done than has ever tason AA in past years. 
supply was large, and everything brought t "ket was eagerly Sones 
high prices which were n in the London market. 
become of more importance year by year, (F.O. Annual Series, 1894,. 
No. 1,820.) 
