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reports that a firm at Lutsk, in the Government of Volhynia, desire 

 to obtain the names of British firms dealing in artificial manures. 

 Communications in this connection should be addressed directly to the 

 British Consulate, Kieff. — (Board of Trade Journal, August 18th, 19 10.) 



Potash Industry in Austria. — The United States Consul-General at 

 Vienna reports that an Austrian syndicate has been formed for the 

 development of the salt deposits near Kalusz in Galicia. The laws of 

 Austria forbid the manufacture of mineral salt by private persons, and 

 the business of the syndicate will therefore be conducted under the 

 form of a Government lease, authorising the manufacture of the salt 

 and its sale to the Government at a fixed price. Existing Government 

 mines will be taken over and extended, and factories will be erected 

 for the production of high percentage potassic salts. The potash 

 mines of Austria have hitherto been little worked, but they are known 

 to be rich in salt, and it is possible that under the new arrangements 

 the industry will enter into competition with the German monopoly. — 

 (U.S. Daily Consular Reports, Vol. I., No. 40.) 



Opening for Seed Potatoes in Uruguay. — H.M. Vice-Consul at 

 Montevideo (Mr. H. Hall Hall) reports that a firm in that city wish 

 to get into communication with a British firm able to supply British- 

 grown seed potatoes. Communications in this connection should be 

 addressed to the British Consulate-General, Montevideo. — (Board of 

 Trade Journal, August 18th, 1910.) 



Sale of Cattle at the Palermo Show, Buenos Aires. — Mr. Townley, 

 H.M. Consul at Buenos Aires, reports in a dispatch dated July 19th, 

 19 10, that exceptionally high prices were paid by various cold storage 

 companies at the sale by auction of steers which took place at the 

 Palermo Show at Buenos Aires early in July. Ten Hereford steers 

 averaged ^939 each, and five Durham steers ^870 each. The La 

 Plata Cold Storage Company bought in all 177 cattle at an average 

 of ^152 a head. The object of the companies in paying such prices 

 is seated to be to encourage the breeding of better stock for the 

 slaughter yards, especially among the smaller breeders, with a view 

 to obtaining a larger supply of grain-fed stock in the future. Such 

 high prices as were obtained at the show are not likely to be realised 

 again, as the policy adopted on this occasion was exceptional. 



Warsaw Hop Fair. — H.M. Consul at Warsaw (Mr. Clive Bayley) 

 reports that the total supplies of hops offered at the Annual Hop Fair, 

 which was held at Warsaw from September 29th to October 1st, were 

 581,007 lb., compared with 535,284 lb. in 1909. Prices were unfavour- 

 able to local hop-growers, although the crops in the district were 

 estimated at from 25 per cent, to 30 per cent, less than in 1909. Extra 

 fine quality hops realised i^\d. per lb. ; first quality, 9fd. to 14^. per 

 lb., as against iyd. to 25c?. for first quality in 1909; second quality, 

 5fd. to yd., as against g^d. to 153d. in 1909; and third quality, 3^. to 

 4?d., as against 5fd. to yd. in 1909. The total sales were about 

 244,800 lb., compared with 333,504 lb. in 1909. The quality of the 

 hops had been adversely affected by the unfavourable summer ; the 

 supplies of fine and extra fine grades were very small, while much of 

 the lower grades were brown in colour. There was little demand at the 

 Fair for these lower qualities, and they formed the bulk of the unsold 

 supplies. 



