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Notes on Agriculture Abroad. [dec, 



address not later than the 3rd December, or sent direct to the 

 Commissioner, Mr. C. E. Akers, c/o The British Legation, Buenos 

 Aires, so as to reach him by the 31st December. 



An account of the Exhibition appeared in this Journal, July, 1909, 

 P- 33o- 



Flower and Fruit Shows will be held in Brussels next year in 

 connection with the International Exhibition, and copies of the Official 

 Programme and the Entrance Forms for these 

 Horticultural Shows shows may be obtained on application to the 

 at the Brussels Secretary to the Horticulture Committee, 

 Exhibition. 8, Whitehall Place, S.W. 



The first Show will be held from the 

 30th April to the 3rd May, 1910, and is for Hardy and Hothouse Plants, 

 Forced Fruit and Vegetables, and will include a section for Floral 

 Decoration. It will be divided into 34 sections and 662 classes, with 

 two or three prizes, consisting of medals, in each class. Entries close 

 on 15th April, 1910. 



The second Show, from the 24th to the 27th September, is for Fruit 

 and Market Garden produce, and will be divided into 3 sections and 

 119 classes, with from 2 to 12 prizes in each class. Entries close on 

 10th September, 1910. 



The last Show, to be held from the 29th October to the 2nd November, 

 is for Flowers and Chrysanthemums and will be divided into 9 sections 

 and 135 classes, with two or three prizes in each class. Entries close 

 on 10th October. 



Agricultural Population of Germany. — The Report for 1908 on the 

 Trade of the Consular District of Berlin (F. O. Reports, Annual Series, 

 No, 4,282) contains particulars of the results of 

 Notes on the census of 1907. It appears that the 



Agriculture Abroad, number of persons returned as engaged in 

 agriculture, gardening, &c, in that year was 

 9,732,000, as against 8,156,000 in 1895. There was thus an absolute 

 increase in numbers, though this increase has not kept pace with the 

 general increase of the population, so that the agricultural group now 

 represents only 39^ per cent, of the total occupied population, as com- 

 pared with 43 per cent, in 1895, and 50 per cent, in 1882. The number 

 of earners in this group, with their dependents and domestic servants, 

 was 17,243,000, as against 18,069,000 in 1895, so that the absolute number 

 of the population depending for their livelihood on agriculture, garden- 

 ing, and the rearing of stock, &c, has actually decreased. 



Mr. Consul-General Schwabach observes that the demonstration of 

 this statistical fact in no way warrants the conclusion that the economic 

 importance of German agriculture has declined in proportion to the 

 decreased number of the population engaged therein. Such a conclusion 

 would be erroneous, inasmuch as it is mainly in the classes of domestic 

 servants and workmen that the decrease above alluded to has taken 

 place; that is to say, this decrease is neither more nor less than a 

 numerical expression of the well-known " dearth of agricultural 



