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to the United Kingdom. The hog products showed 

 a considerable increase, from £17,224,000 in 1897 to 

 £23,084,000 in 1898 ; 5,804,500 cwts. of bacon were exported, 

 and 1,787,400 cwts. of hams, of which 4,225,000 cwts. and 

 1,371,000 cwts. respectively came to this country. Among 

 other hog products may be mentioned lard, of which 

 6,333,400 cwts., of a value of £8,273,000, were exported in 

 1 898, as compared with 5,074,200 cwts., valued at £6,068,000 

 in 1897. Of dairy products, neither butter nor cheese show 

 any increase over 1897. In the case of the former article, 

 229,400 cwts. were exported, or about 50,500 cwts. less than 

 in 1897. Of this total 132,200 cwts. went to the United 

 Kingdom. Cheese showed a small increase in quantity 

 compared with 1897, but a fall in value, the figures being 

 474,700 cwts., valued at £949,900, against 454,900 cwts., 

 of a value of £965,800 in 1897. The average annual export 

 of the preceding five years was 597,000 cwts. 



The shipments of raw cotton were valued at £48,009,000 

 in the past year, compared with an annual average of 

 £42,729,000 in the period 1893-97. 



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A review of the progress of the dairy industry in Denmark 

 in 1898, published in the Tidsskrift for L a ndokonomi, furnishes 

 some interesting details from the balance-sheets of a number 

 of Danish dairies. The statements are abstracted from 

 accounts relating to eighteen dairies, which ranged in size 

 from an establishment manipulating the milk of 34 cows to 

 one drawing its supplies from 292 cows. The average yield 

 of milk per cow in the twelve months, as returned by the 

 separate dairies, ranged from 386 gallons to 636 gallons ; 

 calculated on the total number of cows included in the 

 eighteen accounts it averaged 516 gallons. The value of the 

 products of the dairies represented an average return per cow 

 of £1 1 7s. 6d., while the average estimated cost of maintenance 

 tor each cow amounted to £5 16s., thus leaving a gross profit, 



