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The Roumanian Ministry of Agriculture has recently 



estimated at 380,000 acres, of which less than one-third was 

 productive, the total yield being- calculated at 5,491,860 

 gallons of wine, of the value of ^^302,000, or about is. id. 

 per gallon. 



The cultivation of plums is an important industry in 

 Roumania, chiefly on account of the national drink of the 

 lower classes being a kind of plum brandy called "tuica" ; 

 there were estimated to have been about 135,000 acres under 

 cultivation in 1897, planted with plum trees at the rate of 

 about 240 to the acre, but only 42,100 acres are estimated to 

 have been productive. The yield was 1,281,000 bushels of 

 plums, of the value of ^130,708, These statistics show that 

 the rains and floods of last year's season affected the vine- 

 growing districts of the country to the extent of over two- 

 thirds of the total area, the plum-growing districts having 

 suffered to about the same extent. 



According to the Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories 



handling of hides and skins, and nine with wool-sorting. 

 The former industry has since the close of 1897 been certified 

 by the Secretary of State as a dangerous trade, and special 

 rules are being prepared. Special rules for wool-sorting were 

 issued during 1897 and served upon occupiers of all works in 

 which the sorting of the dangerous kinds of wool and hair 

 named in the rules was known to be carried on. The rules 

 are based upon the draft suggested by the Committee on 

 Dangerous Trades, and follow the general basis of the 



Roumanian 

 Vineyards and 

 Orchards. 



published statistics of the areas and 

 crops of the vineyards and plum orchards 

 of Roumania for the year 1897. The 

 total area of vines under cultivation was 



Anthrax in 

 Foreign Woo 

 and Hides. 



and Workshops, the number of reported 

 cases of anthrax in man increased from 

 seventeen in 1896 to twenty-three in 

 1897. Fourteen were connected with the 



