March 1895.] GENERAL AGRICULTURAL NOTES. 



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from "wliicli it is observed that, in 1891, the number of land- 

 owners farming theii- own land was about twice as great as the 

 total number of persons farming land belonging to others : — 





Em- 

 ployers. 



Managers, 

 Foremen, 

 Bailiffs, 



and others 



(Em. 

 ployes). 



Labourers. 



Families 



of the 

 foregoing. 



Domestic 

 Servants 



of the 

 foregoing. 



Total of 

 the Agri- 

 cultural 

 Popula- 

 tion. 



Landowners farming their 

 own land - 



2,231,513 



40,470 



1,292,543 



5,638,426 



349,228 



9,552,180 



Tenant farmers, metayers, 

 &c. ... 



1,192,542 



26,474 



1,395,867 



4,075,247 



307,169 



6,996,799 



Horticulturists, market- 

 gardeners, and nursery- 

 men 



94,338 



7,147 



130,735 



293,616 



22,274 



548,110 



Wo od cutters and charcoal 

 burners - 



51,623 



1,309 



71,538 



209,460 



4,869 



338,790 



Total 



3,570,016 



75,400 



2,890,183 



10,216,749 



633,540 



17,435,888 



It would occupy too much space to reproduce the figures 

 showing the proportion of the agricultural population to the 

 total number of inhabitants of each department in France, 



The Seine department, in which Paris is situated, is, as would 

 be expected, at the bottom of the list, with an agricultural 

 population of 1"6 per cent. The following are the names of the 

 next departments in this connection, in ascending order: — ■ 

 Bouches-du-Rhone. 201 per cent.; Rhone, 216; Nord, 22*9; 

 Seine Inferieure, 24 6 ; Ardennes, 29'0. Seventy-three depart- 

 ments contain an agricultural population whose proportion to 

 their total number of inhabitants is between thirty and seventy 

 per cent. The departments having a larger proportion than 

 seventy per cent, are as follows: — Cotes- du-Nord, 71; Savoie^ 

 71-3 ; Gers, 71'5 ; Hautes-Alpes, 72*2 ; Lozere, 72 '5 ; Basses- 

 Alpes, 72-7 ; Cantal, 74 ; and Lot, 77. 



The mean proportion of the agricultural to the whole popu- 

 lation is 45'72 per cent. If the 1,304,250 unclassified persons 

 referred to in the first two tables be left out of consideration, the 

 agricultural per-centage becomes 47 '33, showing a reduction of 

 0*49 per cent, compared with the census of 1886. 



Export of Frozen Milk from Denmark. 



According to a statement published in the Berlingske Tidende 

 of the 28th January, a company at Copenhagen has completed 

 arrangements for the regular export of frozen milk to England. 

 The necessary freezing plant has been erected at a cost of 2,500^., 

 and a contract has been made with the proprietors of a large 

 dairy at Skanderborg for the delivery of 110,000 lbs. of milk 

 weekly. 



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