June 1896.] 



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corresponding weight for the period 1894-5 was 6,231,100 lbs., 

 which was itself a slight increase on the previous year, so that 

 the diminution in the products of these factories since the year 

 1892 has been considerable. The quantity of bacon and hams 

 cured on the farms in 1894-5 was 2,604,138 lbs. ; the total 

 quantity cured in the Colony during the period thus amounting 

 to 8,835,238 lbs. 



Importation of Cereals for Starch Making into 

 France. 



The Journal Ojjficiel of the 20th March last publishes the 

 following Presidential Decree relative to the entry of cereals 

 into France. 



Art. 1. Grain (bles tenclres) for the manufacture of starch may 

 be temporarily imported free of duty under conditions set forth 

 in the law of 5th July 1836. 



Art. 2. Every 100 lbs. of corn must be represented by 55 lbs. 

 of starch. 



Art. 3. Re-exportation or storage of starch must be effected 

 within six months. 



Art. 4. Declarations of temporary importation as well as 

 declarations of re-exportation or storage must be made in the 

 name and on account of the manufacturers. 



Art. 5. Import and Export can at present be effected only at 

 Marseilles, Paris, and Lyons. But the Financial Minister has 

 power to authorise such operations in other towns where there 

 are customs establishments, if manufactories of starch have been 

 established in such places. 



Proposed Grain Depots in Germany. 



The Deutsche Landwirtschaftliche Presse of the 11th April 

 last states that a proposal has been laid before the Prussian 

 Parliament for the extension of the railway system of that 

 country and for the erection of agricultural grain depots. The 

 proposal involves the expenditure of 2,916,000^. for the creation 

 of new railways and rolling stock, of 400,000£. in aid of light 

 railways, and of 150,0002. for the construction of grain depots, 

 or 3,466,000Z. m all. 



The fall in the price of cereals is attributed, not only to the 

 large quantity of foreign corn on the market, but also to the 

 imperfect organisation of the supply and of the methods of 

 storing the home produce in Germany ; and it is with the view 

 of remedying this latter defect, and of creating associations for 

 the sale of corn, that the above measure is brought forward. It 

 is stated that the usual practice of storing corn in granaries, 



