Hydrophobia in England and Wales. 



beef were made in August, iooi, when 24,700 quarters were 

 sent. The results obtained were satisfactory, and about Jd. per 

 lb. more was obtained for forequarters, and id. per lb. for 

 hind-quarters, than in the case of the frozen article, 



[Foreign Office Report. Annual Series, A r o. 2,767.] 



The cultivation of the sunflower tor industrial purposes has 



been for some time a feature of the rural 



Russian economy of the Governments in the south 

 Sunflower Seed , , _ _ . . , ^ 



Cak° and south-east ot Russia, and within the 



past three or four years the cultivation of 

 the sunflower plant for the manufacture of oilcake has been 

 extensively adopted by the peasantry and farmers in the 

 Novorossisk district of Russia. The industry, which is said 

 to be remunerative, is rapidly increasing, and promises 

 to still further develop. It is claimed that the sale of 

 the oilcake produces in itself more than enough to cover 

 all the working expenses of the mills. The stalks of the 

 sunflower plant are used as fuel for driving the machinery, 

 and the ash that remains gives from 25 to 30 per cent, of 

 potash. Generally speaking, it would appear that the sun- 

 flower seed when properly crushed yields 25 per cent, of oil, 

 40 per cent, of oilcake, and 37 per cent, of stalk. 



[Trade of Bat 'own and District. — -Foreign Office Report, No. 2782.] 



In the Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, 



Deaths, and Marriages in England and Wales, it is stated 



that the year 1900 is the second year on 



Hydrophobia in record (the first being the year 1899 , in 

 England and , r i_- 1 1 , 



Wales e course °* which not a single death 



from hydrophobia is reported to have 



occurred. 



In the ten years immediately preceding 1899 as many as 

 104 deaths were attributed to this disease, the numbers in 

 separate years reaching 30 in 1889, an d 20 in 1895, 



