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■enced considerable difficulty in verifying the details furnished, 

 and the statistics cannot be regarded as completely trust- 

 worthy. Subject to this qualification, the number of fruit- 

 trees enumerated in Hungary proper was 65,000,000, of Avhich 

 32,000,000 were plum trees and 14,000,000 apple and pear 

 trees. In Croatia and Slavonia 8,500,000 plum trees and 

 ^,000,000 apple and pear trees were scheduled. 



A further branch of the inquiry for which the returns are 

 sufficiently advanced in compilation to permit the publi- 

 cation of the principal results relates to the number of live 

 stock. The previous census of live stock in Hungary proper 

 took place in 1884, and the figures for that year are shown 

 below together with those for 1895 : — 



Year. 



Cattle. 



Horses. 



Sheep. 



SAvine. 



1884 - 



4,879,038 



1,748,859 



10,594,831 



4,803,639 



1895 - - - 



5,829,018 



1,972,448 



7,526,686 



6,446,573 



It will be seen that there is a decrease of over 3,000,000 in 

 the number of sheep, while in cattle and swine there is an 

 increase of 950,000 and 1,643,000 respectively. The number 

 ofs^goats enumerated in 1895 was 286,385, as compared with 

 270,192 in 1884. 



Silt of Rivers as Manure. 



According to a publication recently issued by the Indian 

 Government, the sik of rivers and canals appears to 

 be very generally applied as a manure in India, despite 

 the comparatively small amount of plant food which 

 the matter contains. During the monsoon periods, when 

 the surface wash, whether from hill sides or from more 

 level lands, is so great that clear water is not to be 

 seen, water plays a very remarkable part in many parts 

 of India, in transporting vast quantities of earth of one 

 description or another to lower levels. The deposition of 

 silt by canals is a more regular feature than by rivers, which 

 frequently take the matter away from cultivated lands, except 

 in parts where they flood the country annually, as in Eastern 



