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importance of which may be gathered from the estimate that 

 over 30,000 horses of all kinds are yearly required by the armies 

 of Great Britain, France, Germany, and Austria, namely : — 

 France, 14,100; Germany, 9,370; Austria, 5,840; Great Britain 

 (exclusive of India), 1,470. 



The Gazette quotes the following official statistics to show the 

 extent of the trade in horses from Australia to India. 



From New South Wales there were exported in 1889, 190 

 horses valued at 1,900^.; in 1890, 861 valued at 11,581^.; in 

 1891, 440 valued at 8,800^.; in 1892,865 valued at 19,4906.; 

 and in 1893, 213 valued at 5,320L 



From Victoria there were exported between 1889 and 1893, 

 16,800 horses valued at 402,500^. 



From South Australia, between 1890-93, there were exported 

 966 horses valued at 19,320^. 



From Queensland 257 horses, valued at 2,570^, were exported 

 in 1890; in 1891, nil ; in 1892, 240 valued at 1,542^.; and in 

 1893, 961 horses valued at 9,380^. were exported. 



Demand for Ploughs in Madras. 



The Board of Agriculture have received a copy of the recently 

 published Report on the operations of the Department of Land, 

 Records and Agriculture of the Madras Presidency for the year 

 1893-94, from which the following extract is taken :— 



" The chief feature of the year is the recrudescence of the 

 demand for heavy iron ploughs in Bellary, where they are 

 preferred for the purpose of breaking-up and reclaiming black 

 cotton soil when overgrown by strong deep-rooted grasses. 

 About 15 years ago, the Honourable Mr. A. Sabapathy Mudaliar, 

 of Bellary, purchased from the Department a dozen heavy iron- 

 ploughs belonging to the Department which had been sent out 

 to this country after the Vienna Exhibition, where they attracted 

 attention. These ploughs, which were of Swedish make, were 

 remarkably cheap and well-made. He found them very useful, 

 and soon after imported and sold locally a large number. The 

 demand later on fell off, but during the past season it sprang up 

 again with great vigour, and the available supply of ploughs fell 

 far short of the demand. It appears probable that the demand 

 will continue, and there is no doubt that these heavy iron 

 ploughs, for which the ryots have been paying Rs. 60 or more, 

 have become established in the country around Bellary. There 

 is, however, much room in Bellary, and the adjoining districts of 

 Anantapur, Cuddapar, Bellary, and Kurnool, for the use of a 

 largely-increased number of these implements. An agricultural 

 inspector, touring in the Bellary taluk, reported in May last that 

 he found 89 iron- ploughs in nine villages, and an enterprising 



