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FOREIGN OFFICE REPORTS. 



[March 1897. 



even if there are no locusts, but alfalfa is to a great extent 

 independent of redo, and will supply food for pigs — and, indeed, 

 all stock — in a drought. 



[Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, No. 1839. Price 2c£J 



Agricultural Department of Uruguay. 



The Board have received information through the Foreign 

 Office of the creation at Montevideo of a Department of Live 

 Stock and Agriculture, which will be under the Home Ministry. 

 The staff of the new department will be under the control of a 

 director, who will also have the assistance of an honorary 

 consultative board of six members. Among the duties of the 

 Department will be the collection and diffusion of all informa- 

 tion concerning agriculture, the distribution of plants and seeds, 

 the organisation of agricultural education and experiment 

 stations, and the supervision of immigration and colonisation. 

 The existing meteorological observatory is also placed under this 

 Department. It is proposed to publish annual and quarterly 

 returns of statistics relating to agriculture and live stock. 



The expenses of the Department will be defrayed out of the 

 Budget, the following sums having been provisionally allocated 

 for this purpose : — 



Dollars. 



Direction ----- 9,864 

 Statistical and Publishing Section - - 3,446 



Immigration and Colonisation Section - 5,025 



Laboratory - - - - - 5,697 



Viticulture ----- 6,000 

 Schools of Agriculture and Experimental 



Farm ----- 28,222 

 Office of Marks and Brands - - - 6,240 



Annual expenses - 10,700 



Installation - - - - -75,191 



Furniture, instruments, and library - - 5,000 



Machinery Exhibition at Kieff. 



Colonel Stewart, Her Majesty's Consul- General at Odessa, 

 states in a report on the state of agriculture in his district, that 

 an Exhibition of Industrial and Agricultural Machinery is to be 

 held in Kieff from the 13th July to the end of October next year 

 under the auspices of the Kieff' Agricultural Society. So far as 

 can be judged at present, there is every prospect of the exhi- 

 bition being a success, a considerable number of exhibitors having 

 already applied for space. Only Russian-made goods are avail- 

 able for awards, while foreign-made goods may only receive 

 certificates of excellence. Notwithstanding this fact, a con- 

 siderable number of foreign firms have signified their intention 

 of exhibiting, 



