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GENERAL AGRICULTURAL NOTES. 



[Dec. 1894. 



Agriculture in Uruguay. 



A recent number of the South American Journal contains 

 some information, extracted from the Biglo of Monte Video, 

 respecting the production of cereals in Urui^uay. 



It is stated that recent statistics have fully proved that the 

 productive movements of that country are much more active 

 now than they were in 1893. In the first half of the present 

 year, there were exported from Uruguay 1,591,000 cwts. of wheat, 

 412,500 cwts. of flour, and 157,000 cwts. of maize. Adding to 

 these birdseed, barley, and bran, the exports of cereal products 

 amounted to neativ 2,300,000 cwts., worth at the current market 

 prices over $2,000,000. ^ 



In 1890 the exportation of wheat amounted to 353,500 cwts. 

 and of flour to 9,800 cwts. : while the quantity of maize exported 

 in the same year was 78,571 cwts. 



These quantiti-^s decreased in the intervening years until the 

 commencement of the reaction in 1893, the figures for which 

 were still below those of 1890. Summing up the commercial 

 statistics, the exports of cereals from the Republic in the four 

 years 1890 to 1898 inclusive comprised 484,000 cwts. of wheat, 

 250,000 cwts. of flour, and 141,000 cwts. of maize. 



Thus in the first six months of the current year Uruguay has 

 exported more than three times the wheat, nearly double the 

 flour, and rather more maize than in the total exportation 

 of the four preceding years. The great fall in prices is said to 

 have prevented agriculturists from gaining the results they had 

 hoped from so splendid a harvest. 



Consumption of Margarine in Denmark. 



According to the llgeskrift for Landmcend of the 19th 

 October last, there were 16 margarine factories in operation in 

 Denmark on the 31st March last as compared with 19 at the same 

 date in 1893. The total production of margarine from Danish 

 factories in the year ended 31st March 1894 was 17,800,000 lbs., 

 and the import f this article during the same period amounted 

 to about 2,487,000 lbs. The export of margarine is practically 

 " nil," so that about 20,287,000 lbs. of margarine were consumed 

 in Denmark in the 12 months ended March last, this being at 

 the rate of about 10 lbs. per head of the population. 



The production of margarine cheese is on the decline, the 

 total output in the year 1893-94 is estimated to have been 

 33,000 lbs., as against 220,000 lbs. in the previous year. This 

 decline is accounted for by the fact that the cheese has to be 

 marked " margarine cheese," and this name is said to discourage 

 customers from purchasing it. 



