80 EXTllACTS FROM DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR [Sept. 1894. 



REPORTS. 



There has been a constant decrease of wheat sown in the 

 northern part of Texas, where up to 1891 the bulk of the wheat 

 produced in the State was grown. This decrease has been counter- 

 acted by the opening of new farms in the Panhandle, which is fast 

 becoming the granary of the State. The soil and climate there 

 are admirably adapted to wheat culture, and it is hoped that ere 

 long, with favourable circumstances, that part of Texas will 

 supply enough wheat for home consumption and also for 

 exportation. 



The amount of wheat consumed _per capita throughout the 

 United States is estimated at 4| bushels. Under this calculation 

 10,432,442 bushels were necessary for Texas consumption in 

 1892, whereas only 6,553,575 bushels were produced, leaving 

 3,878,867 bushels to be imported. 



[Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, No. 1431.] 



The Dairy Industry in Denmark in 1893. 



Mr. A. P. Inglis, Her Majesty's Consul at Copenhagen, 

 reporting on the agriculture of Denmark during 1893, states that 

 dairy farming had to encounter many difficulties, not so much 

 from short winter fodder, as stocks remaining over from the 

 previous year were ample, but owing to ice obstructions which 

 caused considerable uncertainty in sales. 



The short supply of grass in the dry summer caused a falling 

 off in the yield of milk, and the low prices ruling from December 

 to July, when milk is most abundant, were far from being made 

 up by the better quotations during the remaining months of the 

 year. 



The surplus exports of butter, however, exhibited a consider- 

 able increase of over 16,500,000 lbs. (avoir.) more than the 

 average for the previous five years, and 2,970,000 lbs. more than 

 in 1892, but the export of eggs, though larger than the average 

 for the five years' period, was 1,300,000 scores less than the year 

 before. 



The courses for dairy instruction were well attended to by men 

 and women, and travelling instructors were engaged to act at 

 vacant posts when necessary. 



The Agricultural Society also undertook to supply dairy 

 hands to its members who, on account of the presence of foot- 

 and-mouth disease amongst their stock, were in need of extra 

 assistance, their delivery of milk to the co-operative dairies 

 being stopped. 



The grant for the improvement of domestic animals was 

 increased 6,940^., of which 2,222^. were for horses, 3,333^. for 

 cattle, 555^. for consulting experts, and 884Z. for other purposes. 



A further annual grant of 2,77ol. for five years was made to 

 assist farmers in combating tuberculosis in horned cattle. 



[Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, No. 1430.] 



