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United States Potato Crop. 



benzene." Tropoeolins, which are sulphonated-azo-deriva- 

 tives from coal-tar, are also coming into use. " Butter- 

 yellow " is generally supplied by the trade ready dissolved 

 in oil, either cotton-seed, rape, linseed, or sesame oil. 



[Report of the Committee on Food Preservatives. Cd. 883. Price ^s. 3^.] 



The butter-making industry of New South Wales has 

 greatly expanded during recent years. 

 NfwSoJrwL. According to Part IX. of the « Status- 

 tical Register " of the Colony for the 

 year ended 31st March, 1901, the annual production of butter 

 increased from 21,000,000 lbs. in the year 1892-3 to 41,000,000 

 lbs. in 1 900- 1. This increased production has been accom- 

 panied by an important expansion in the quantity of 

 the exports of this commodity from the Colony. Particulars 

 as to these exports for each year during the last decade are 

 shown in the following table : — 



Year. 



Quantity. 



Value. 



Year. 



Quantity. 



Yalue. 





lbs. 



£ 





i 



lbs. 



£ 



1891 



533.869 



22,622 



1896 



2,565,806 



102,502 



1892 



1,713,466 



73*205 



1897 



6,526,673 



258,725 



1893 



3,161,792 



124,936 



1898 



8,949,588 



376,421 



1894 



4,590.606 



150,263 



1899 



7,801,063 



340,372 



1895 



2,028,349 



57,575 



1900 



10,410,434 



436,786 



Since 1891 both volume and value of the butter exports of 

 the Colony have increased nearly twenty-fold ; and the 

 quantity exported in 1900 exceeded that returned for any 

 previous year by nearly 1,500,000 lbs. 



The Board have received through the Foreign Office a 

 report, drawn up by Mr. W. Wyndham, 



Potato S Crop S UM ' Consul at ^ h i ca g"°> u P on the potato 

 crop in the United States. Mr. Wynd- 

 ham, writing on the 5th of September last, states that a 



