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£700,000. The increase in 1898 is attributed to an abundance 

 of good grass in summer, and to the great care with which 

 the cows are managed, every attention being paid to feeding. 

 Each year sees less fattening of stock, on account of dairy- 

 ing being so much more profitable as long as prices keep 

 good. The average weekly price for butter in 1898 as quoted 

 by the Danish Chamber of Commerce was 107 id. per 

 pound as compared with io'83d. in 1897 and iri6d. in the 

 preceding year. Swedish and Finnish butter to the amount 

 of 22,500,000 lbs. was imported by Denmark, and was re- 

 exported again by Danish butter merchants to various- 

 countries. 



Bacon salted on the " Autocure " method, to which refer- 

 ence was made in the Consular report for 1897, is stated to 

 have been introduced with success. It appears that the trial 

 laboratory in Copenhagen has been and is still carrying 

 out experiments in this method of curing, and also in a 

 second one, invented by a M. Fjelstrup, the chief point of 

 which is a process whereby the carcase is em ptied of all 

 blood and a solution of salt is at the same time injected to 

 replace it. 



The following table gives the Danish exports to Great 

 Britain of bacon and hams, butter and eggs, in 1S98, and 

 Denmark's total imports and exports of the same articles : — 



Articles. 



Imports. 



Exports. 



Exports to Great 

 Britain. 





Quantity. 



Value. 



Quantity. 



Value. 



Quantity. 



Value. 



Bacon and hams 

 lbs. 



Butter - - lbs. 

 Eggs - score 



9,020,000 

 33,070 000 

 1,300.000 



£ 



i6r.ni 

 1.566.667 

 ' 66,667 



134,750,000 

 159,830,000 

 13,400,000 



£ 



2,805.555 

 7.166,667 

 761,111 



128,300.000 

 155,870,000 

 12,600,000 



£ 



2.700.000 

 6.977.778 

 716,667 



Total - 





I »794;445 





io ? 733»333 





10.394,445 



[Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, A r o. 2301. Price 2id.] 



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In connection with the reference in the June number* of 

 this Journal to the quarantine regulations of Australasia, it 



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