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most favourably on the roots as fodder for neat cattle, 

 sheep, horses, and hogs ; and his report was published by 

 the Society in 1765, and re-published in the fifth volume of 

 the Museum Rusticum. After 1765 the prizes for carrots 

 were formally discontinued, " on account of the end sought 

 by the Society having been entirely answered, and their 

 utility demonstrated to the public." Nevertheless, the 

 Society gave a silver medal to Mr. Wallis Mason, of 

 Goodrest Lodge, near Warwick, in 1805, for his experi- 

 ments in the cultivation of carrots ; and again, in 1 806, to 

 Mr. John Christian Curwen, of Workington, for cultivating 

 carrots and using them as fodder for cattle. 



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In a report to the Foreign Office on the trade of Germany 

 during the year 1896, Consul-General Schwabach states that 

 since the rescinding of the " Identitats Nachweisen," or 

 certificate of origin regulation, certain Baltic ports, viz., 

 Dantzic and Konigsberg, export wheat and oats to Eng- 

 land. Stettin sends barley from the Oderbruch, and Hamburg 

 barley from Silesia, and, particularly, from the valley of 

 the Saale. Statistics also show an export of corn from 

 England to Germany, but this refers only to seed corn of 

 different varieties of wheat and oats, and not to corn intended 

 for consumption. It is true that much corn sent from the 

 Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, America, Australia, Brazil, etc., 

 probably through English factors, first lands on the English 

 coast, and is thence shipped to Germany. 



It seems that great quantities of maize were last year 

 imported into North Germany, where it is extensively used 

 for fodder, but it came from the Danube, or from America. 

 Business firms had a somewhat unfortunate experience in 

 this article, particularly in that imported from America 

 (mixed). In spite of American certificates, the supplies, par- 

 ticularly the spring loadings, arrived in a warm, mildewed, 

 and consequently spoilt condition. 



The export of flour to England, so far as concerns Berlin, 

 consisted principally of coarse meal used for fodder. The 



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