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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 11 \ 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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