Sept. 1896.] 



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permanent supply of water, as well as to the differences in the 

 character and habits of the people in different districts. The 

 capital outlay, direct and indirect, during the prist year, was 

 Kx. 36,617,689, and the net receipts were Rx. 1,583,613. The 

 total area irrigated amounted to 8.692,658 acres, and the total 

 mileage of the canals in operation with their distributaries was 

 40,814 miles. 



The immense systems of large artificial water channels, with 

 which some parts of India are covered, would appear at first 

 sight to offer unrivalled opportunities for water carriage. But 

 though efforts have been made to organise navigation services 

 on the larger irrigation canals, it cannot be said that, on the 

 whole, they have met with a large measure of success. In many 

 cases the receipts from the traffic have failed to cover the 

 working expenses. It is, indeed, obvious that the canals being 

 designed primarily for irrigation purposes must often be 

 unsuitable from their alignment and level for na violation. 



Ministry of Agriculture in Denmark. 



The Board of Agriculture have been officially advised, through 

 the Foreign Office, of the creation, on May 22nd, 1896, of a 

 Ministry of Agriculture in Denmark. Official business connected 

 with agriculture in that country has hitherto been transacted by 

 the Ministry of the Interior, in the Section of Agricultural 

 Economy and the Section of Valuation of Landed Property. 

 Under the new arrangement these two sections have been 

 separated from the Ministry of the Interior, and have been 

 joined to the Departments of Woods and Forests and of State 

 Domains (both hitherto part of the Ministry of Finance) in 

 order to form the new Ministry of Agriculture. 



Imports of Living Plants, Fruits, and Vegetables 

 into Russia. 



With the view of preventing the introduction of phylloxera 

 into Russia, regulations have been published by the Minister of 

 Agriculture and Domains, prohibiting the importation of vines 

 into the Russian Empire. Living plants may be imported from 

 England by the customs-towns on the White and Baltic Seas, 

 on the German frontier as far as Radzivolovo, and by Odessa, 

 Batoum, and Novorossiisk (in this last case only with special per- 

 mission), upon condition of their being accompanied by a certificate 

 of origin from a competent authority that consignments of living 



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