Opening for Scotch Oatmeal 



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Some cattle breeders in Paraguay have imported half and 

 quarter bred Durham, Hereford, and Holstein cattle with 

 very good results. The stock in the country has steadily 

 increased during the last few years. 



(Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, No. 2275. Price id.) 



A despatch has been received at the Foreign Office from 



H.M. Consul at Marseilles, reporting 



Opening- for that in that city there seems to be a 

 Scotch Oatmeal „ _ 



at Marseilles. small, but gradually increasing, con- 

 sumption of Scotch oatmeal. It is re- 

 tailed there at iod. the pound, but as it could be delivered at 

 Marseilles by barrel of 220 pounds, all charges paid, duty 

 included, at a rate of less than 2§d. the pound, there would 

 seem to be an opening for business on a small scale. 



The Canadian Department of Agriculture has withdrawn 

 from the management of the dairy sta- 



D Sa?d i I S Tr n d < : etions in Prince Edward Inland, and the 

 cheese factories and creameries which 

 were formerly under their charge are now conducted by 

 dairy companies. In 1 892 there was only one factory in the 

 province, which was placed under the charge of the Depart- 

 ment. About the year 1897 the number had increased to 

 thirty-two cheese factories, as well as several creameries ; 

 and, in 1898, 46,000 boxes of cheese were exported from the 

 island. The practice of butter-making in winter has also 

 been extended, and nineteen factories continued their opera- 

 tions through the past season. 



The Board have received information through the Foreign 

 Office of an outbreak of an epidemic 

 P ° U in^talyf amon §" poultry in the Province of Milan 

 and neighbouring provinces. The disease 

 was at first described as fowl cholera ; but recent micro- 



