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French Co-operative Societies. 



Canada without deterioration in quality, and it is held to be 

 more than probable that a large and profitable export trade 

 may hereafter be developed. 



It is reported by H.M. Vice-Consul at Galatz, that the 

 Roumanian Parliament will shortly be 

 Grain Silos asked to sanction the construction of 

 in Roumania. grain silcs at the railway stations situated 

 in the agricultural districts. In these 

 stores there will be a classification of the grain according 

 to quality and kind. They are first to be tried in Moldavia. 

 Their holding capacity will be about 60,000 to 65,000 tons, so 

 that including the grain silos now existing in the docks of 

 Braila and Galatz, there will be a total storage capacity of 

 400,000 tons of grain in the country. The cost of construc- 

 tion is roughly calculated at £1 10,000. 



\Foreign Office Report, Annual Series. No. 2,100. Price \d?\^ 



According to the A7inMaire des Syndicats Professionnels for 

 French i^97> published by the French Ministry of 



Agricultural Commerce, the number of agricultural 

 Co-operative co-operative associations [syndicats agri- 

 Societies. coles) existing in France on July ist, 1897 

 was 1,371, wdth a membership of nearly 600,000 persons. 



This exhibition, which was announced in the last number 

 of this Journal to be held in the course 

 Ornithological ^^^^ present year, has now been post- 

 Exhibition at .-1 A 1 o ' ^ 

 St. Petersburg. P^^^^ ^^^^^ ^P^^^' project 

 has assumed dimensions necessitating an 



extension of the programme. 



