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Agriculture in Algeria. 



and up to £20 at Kendal and Ulverston ; second men and 

 youths £10 to £ij ; boys, £5 to £ 10 ; best women £ l 2 to £14; 

 second women £g to £11 10s.; girls ^5 to £8. 



Agriculture in Algeria. 



In the report to the Foreign Office on the trade of Algeria 

 during the year 1897-8 Mr. Hay-Newton, Her Majesty's 

 Consul-General at Algiers, gives the following information 

 regarding the agriculture of this French colony. 



The agricultural population at the end of December, 1 897 

 amounted to 3,644,614 persons, of whom 207,310 were 

 Europeans, and 3,437,304 were natives. According to other 

 statistics the total amount of stock possessed by both 

 Europeans and natives during the year 1898 amounted to 

 12,454,034 animals, consisting of 202,343 horses, 142,796 

 mules, 255,870 asses, 205,287 camels, 1,004,175 cattle,. 

 7,026,290 sheep, 3,526,508 goats, and 90,765 pigs. Compared 

 with the previous year there was a decrease of 38,000 

 animals, including 690,000 sheep, 91,000 cattle, and 41,000 

 goats. The following table gives the figures of the cereal 

 harvest of the year 1898 : — 



Crop. 



Area. 



Quantity Produced. 





Acres. 



Bushels. 



Wheat soft 



577,600 



5,861,500 



„ hard 



2,528,700 



21,196,000 



Rye - - 



760 



9,230 



Barley 



3,073,200 



39,725,000 



Oats 



176,300 



4,932,500 



Indian corn - 



3M4Q 



323,070 



Total - 



6,388,000 



72,047,300 



There is a considerable export trade in cattle and sheep 

 from the port of Oran. A trial shipment of sheep to a 

 Channel port was made in 1897, but it has not been repeated, 

 the sea voyage comparing very unfavourably with that to 

 Marseilles. The shipment of horses to Gibraltar still con- 

 tinues, although not on a very large scale. 



Some 12 or 15 years ago almost all the vegetables con-; 



