i9i i.] Indian Wheat. 
awarded to a Craonnais, aged 12 months, which weighed 
6 cwt. 3 qr. 3 lb. This heavy weight, of course, meant an 
enormous quantity of fat, but the breed as a whole has an 
excellent reputation. It claims with the Normand a strong 
tendency to produce more flesh than fat. 
The Yorkshire is now fully adopted by the French breeder, 
who claims that his animals may be compared to their advan- 
tage with the breed in this country. The early maturity of the 
Yorkshire strongly appeals to him, as he is able to rear and 
prepare for the butcher three lots of this breed in the same 
time as it would take to bring two Craonnais or Normands 
to perfection. The first prize in a class for foreign breeds 
was a Yorkshire weighing 4 cwt. 2 qr. 17 lb. at iij months. 
Poultry. — In the poultry section, which included some 
eleven hundred lots of exhibits, the prize for the best birds in 
the French classes was awarded to a pair of La Fleche birds, 
and that for the best in the foreign classes to a golden game- 
cock and two hens exhibited by M. Pichot, ot Fans. 
A paper on "Indian Wheat for the British Market," by 
Sir James Wilson, recently published by the Government of 
India, contains matter of much interest 
Indian Wheat. to agriculturists in this country. The 
most remarkable fact in connection with 
Indian wheat is that it fetches on the average three shillings 
more per quarter in the English market than home-grown 
wheat, in spite of the fact that it contains a higher proportion 
of impurities, and is less uniform in quality. It is well known 
that Canadian wheat also commands a higher price than 
British grown, but in this case the difference is apparently due 
to the superiority of the former in providing a flour of better 
baking quality : in the phraseology of the trade Canadian 
wheat is "stronger" than British. 
The annual imports of wheat and flour from abroad average 
114 million cwt., to which the principal contributors are: 
United States, 27 per cent. ; Argentine Republic, 19 per cent. ; 
India and Russia, 14 per cent.; Canada, 12 per cent. India 
has not always occupied such a high position. The gradual 
diminution of the supplies from the United States, and the 
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