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Crops and Live Stock. 



[OCT., 



the Polish farmer ; corn was high in price, and the demand for 

 agricultural machinery for this reason was brisk. Nearly every 

 variety of machinery was sold in larger quantities than during the 

 preceding year, with the exception of harvesting machinery, of which 

 less was sold, owing to most adverse weather during the very retarded 

 reaping season, which made the use of such machinery impossible. 

 The demand for mowing machinery was also less, persistent drought 

 during the spring having greatly impaired the grasses. Owing to the 

 passing of land into the hands of the peasants and the division of 

 estates and farms, which is growing more and more frequent, the 

 demand for smaller implements, which it would not pay to import 

 from abroad, is steadily increasing, and the home manufacturers pro- 

 ducing such implements are prospering. 



Bacon Curing in Sweden. — H.M. Vice-Consul at Malmo reports 

 (Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, No. 4527) that agriculturists of 

 the district contemplate forming a co-operative 

 Notes on Agriculture association with the object of erecting a central 

 Abroad. slaughterhouse at Malmo for the purpose of 



of curing bacon for the British market. Cal- 

 culations are based upon a yearly output of between 30,000 and 50,000 

 pigs. At Tomelilla, a place situated about forty miles east of Malmo, 

 a similar association has been working during 1908 with satisfactory 

 results. 



Consumption of Fertilisers in Germany. — The enormous increase in 

 the use of fertilisers in Germany during the last decade is shown in the 

 following table, taken from the Mitteilungen der Deutschen Landwirt- 

 schafts-Gesellschaft, May 26th, 19 10. The expenditure on fertilisers 

 is stated to amount at the present time to about 45. 6d. per acre. 



1900. 1905. 1909. 



Cwt. Cwt. Cwt. 



Bone meal 1,249,000 1,298,000 1.770,000 



Guano (artificial and natural) ... 737, coo 1,407,000 '892,000 

 Superphosphate and compound 



manures 14,856,000 19,556,000 23,841,000 



Basic slag ... ... 17,296,000 22,195,000 23,975,000 



Nitrate of soda 6,942,000 7,781,000 9,408,000 



Sulphate of ammonia 2,315,000 4,042,000 5,892,000 



Potash salts ... 16,402,000 28,269,000 39,832,000 



Various fertilisers 984,000 984,000 984,000 



Total ... 60,781,000 85,532,000 106,594,000 



The figures given above represent, so far as can be ascertained, the 

 quantity actually entering into consumption. The total estimated value 

 in 1909 was ^"18,625,000. 



The following preliminary statement, 

 Area under Crops and compiled from the Returns collected on June 

 „ . 4 tn > 19 10, shows the area under crops and 



in Great i»riiaui. number of live stock in Great Britain at 



that date. 



