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dustry will be injuriously affected by the new duty, which has been 

 raised from 3 to 4 marks. 



Our clients will profit from the resulting advantage by a difference 

 in the price of caraway oil of about 0,60 marks per kilo, to take 

 effect from the coming season. 



We avail ourselves of this opportunity to express our thanks to 

 the Saxon Government, which has assisted to bring victory to our 

 suggestions, and which has also regulated the practical execution of 

 the customs' control in a most liberal and judicious manner. 



We are now in possession of official reports on the results of the 

 caraway - harvest in Holland in the year 1905, from which we see 

 that the estimate of our Dutch correspondents published in our last 

 October Report, was taken much too low. We reproduce below the 

 figures published in No. 8 of the Nederlandsch Landbonw Weekblad 

 of 24 th February 1906; the figures in brackets are the results of 1904 

 added for comparison. 



Provinces 



Area under 

 cultivation in acres 



Yield in 

 per acre 



bales of 50 kilos 

 total 



Groningen . 

 Friesland . 

 Drente . 

 Overyssel . 

 Utrecht . . . 

 North Holland . 

 South Holland 

 Zeeland 

 North Brabant 



I 117 (2 280) 



65 ( if 7) 

 52 — 



?.y. - 



30 ( 45) 



4512 ( 5237) 



512 ( 660) 



2070 ( 2505) 



1900 ( 2557) 



8,8 (10,7) 



9.3 ( 9,8) 



5.4 — 

 6,0 — 



12,0 (14,0) 



8.5 (io,5) 

 9,3 ( 9,4) 

 8,3 (11,1) 

 7,8 ( 9,6) 



9864 ( 24688) 

 606 ( I 147) 

 282 



15 — 

 360 ( 630) 



38540 ( 549") 



4759 ( 6191) 



17245 ( 27798) 



14801 ( 24645) 



Totals 



10260V2 (13401) 



8,4 (10,5) 



86472 (139790) 



On the prospects of this year's harvest, we are informed under 

 date 6 th March that in Brabant less caraway is under cultivation than 

 in 1905, but that, on the other hand, the plants are in good con- 

 dition and give great promise. The same applies to Zeeland. In 

 North Holland, much land in the Ypold district had suffered greatly 

 from mice; for this reason the yield will be much smaller than 

 last year. 



In the Haarlem district and in Groningen and Friesland, however, 

 the area planted is not larger than in 1905, and the plants there 

 are looking well. 



It is hoped that the mild weather will now continue until the 

 plants are sufficiently strong to resist subsequent night frosts, as the 

 latter might otherwise do a great deal of harm. 



