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the interior to work on the Cilician plain during the harvest. 

 {Foreign Office, Annual Series, 3,363.) 



List of Buyers of Agricultural Machinery. — Lists may be 

 consulted free of charge by British manufacturers and traders at 

 the offices of the Commercial Intelligence Branch of the Board 

 of Trade, 73, Basinghall Street, E.C. Amongst lists which 

 have recently been received are the following : — 



Lists of manufacturers and importers of agricultural imple- 

 ments and machinery, and likely users of various classes of 

 machinery, in Adelaide, South Australia. 



Lists of agricultural implement dealers, makers and importers, 

 flour mill proprietors, and in some cases also of estate owners 

 ■and other persons likely to buy agricultural implements and 

 various kinds of machinery in the following towns : — Bordeaux, 

 Bilbao, Oporto, Trieste, Florence, Milan, Palermo, Salonica, The 

 Piraeus, Stockholm, and Warsaw. 



Agricultural Machinery in Argentina. — H.M. Consul at Rosario 

 (Mr. H. M. Mallett), in his Report on the trade of the district 

 for 1904, states that the sale of agricultural machinery and 

 implements has been important, and notwithstanding that 

 merchants imported largely, anticipating the demand which the 

 good harvest would bring, their stock has run short and new 

 orders have been given. There is a ready market for agricultural 

 machinery and implements. {Foreign Office, Annual Series* 

 3,362.) 



Agricultural Machinery in India. — -The United States Consul- 

 General at Calcutta, in a recent Report, observes that his atten- 

 tion has been called to the slow and wasteful harvesting in 

 India. The threshing is done by hand, or by bullocks treading 

 out the grain, and the winnowing is done by hand. Both 

 processes are slow and wasteful. Threshing and winnowing 

 machines adapted to this country, capable of being moved from 

 place to place, he thinks, would prove a great success. Manu- 

 facturers of agricultural machines should send experts to study 

 the situation. If economy in harvesting were introduced much 

 larger crops could be raised and saved. 



