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Miscellaneous Notes. 



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through Monte Video, and 13,000 bales through the other 

 Uruguayan ports and via Buenos Ayres. Taking 470 kilos. 

 (1,036 lb.) per bale, this means a total of 37,130,000 kilos. 

 (81,834,500 lb.;, and on the basis of 200 dols. per bale, after 

 payment of Custom dues, the value of the above quantity 

 equals 15,800,000 dols., or £3,36 1,702. The wool shipped from 

 Monte Video in the year 1903-4 amounted to 65,389 bales. 



[Foreign Office, Annual Series, 3,515.] 



Quebracho Wood in. Argentina. — With reference to the 

 article in this Journal on " Quebracho Wood in Argentina " 

 (Vol. XL, p. 562, December, 1904), the Foreign Office have 

 now issued a Report (Miscellaneous Series No. 639) on que- 

 bracho and cotton in the Argentine Chaco, by Mr. Consul 

 Ross. Mr. Ross gives an account of the district from which 

 the quebracho wood is obtained, together v/ith an estimate 

 of the cost, and other particulars. The demand for this 

 material for tanning has, it appears, so increased that 

 the price is now 50 per cent, higher than it was a year or 

 two back, the United States and Germany being the principal 

 consumers. The export, in the form of logs, is somewhat 

 fluctuating, and does not show any great increase during 

 the last few years ; 240,000 tons being sent away in 1900, 

 199,000 tons in 1901, 246,000 tons in 1902, 200,000 tons in 

 1903, and 252,000 tons in 1904. The export of quebracho 

 extract, which is worth £16 12s. per ton, has increased rapidly, 

 4,320 tons being exported in 1901 and 20,000 tons in 1904. The 

 quantities consigned to the United Kingdom in 1904 only 

 amounted to 1,400 tons of extract and 100 tons of logs. 



Agricultural Exhibition in the Dominican Republic. — Accord- 

 ing to the Moniteur Officiel du Commerce (Paris), the Government 

 of the Dominican Republic have decided to organise an exhibi" 

 tion at Santo Domingo of native products and foreign agricultural 

 implements. 



Spanish Duties on Wheat and Forage. — According to the 

 Gaceta de Madrid for the 14th September, the duties fixed by 

 the Law of the 14th March, 1904, have been re-imposed (viz., 

 wheat, 6 pesetas, and wheat flour 10 pesetas per 100 kilogs.), 

 in consequence of the price of wheat falling below 28 pesetas 

 per 100 kilogs. The full duties inscribed in the Tariff (8 and 



