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grain crops of every kind were in consequence nearly one-half short of the 
average. The olives, which ])romised well in the sprin<.', did not yield more 
tl)au a third of ordinary bearing years. Hay and straw were scarce, and 
dear in jiropurlion, and the pastures were so parched that both sheep and cattle 
suflered much, and the mortality amongst them was very severe. 
In the matter of grain, the produce of 18G3 having been insufficient for 
home consumption, large quantities of Indian corn from Italy, and wheat 
from Thcssaly, were imported at prices considerably in advance of the preceding 
year. 
Kagusa. 
1863-4. — The cattle murrain, so great a scourge to the husbandman in 
1862, appears to have ceased on this side of the Adriatic. 
A trade with Great Britain ex| ected. Several roads in course of progress, 
by the Austrian and Turkish Governments, to the interior — that to Trabique 
will open up a fertile country, which till recently had been in a state of 
insurrection ^nd infested by brigands. 
If the splendid jiorts of the Dalmatian coast were free ports, with railway 
connexion with the Pave, not only would the trade witli Hungary be opened, 
but the hidden treasures of Bosnia and the other intermediate provinces would 
be disinterred. 
This is marked out by nature as the commercial gate of the north-west 
corner of Turkey in Europe and of Southern Hungary. 
1865. — The drought of 1865 caused a general failure of agricultural pro- 
ductions, with the exception of wine. There would have been a famine among 
all the agricultural population, not only of Dalmatia, but of Herzegovina and 
Montenegro, if it had not been that the very mild winter has been productive 
of an abuniiance of green vegetables. 
EPIRUS. Janina, 1867. — A supply of wheat is usually obtained from 
Thessaly, but the harvest in that province in 1866 was destroyed by a plague 
of mamiots ! Epirus cotton is classed in the Trieste market with that of 
Livadia, in Greece; the lands of Lamari, near the sea, offer everj^ facility for 
the cultivation of cotton on a large scale, but the villagers complain that the 
cultivation of the land, hitherto in grass, interferes with an old prescription 
which gives them the use of the pastures, free of charge, in September, every 
year. Tobacco, wine, and silk, are all grown : on a small scale of course. 
The olives are of two kinds. All olives yield oil, but there is a special kind 
■which alone is good for eating. The cultivation of this kind, in Epirus, is 
•confined to a few districts. The olives intended for picl<ling are beaten from 
the branches before they are ripe, in the month of November. Those that are 
destined Ibr oil are left to rijien on the tree and to fall of their own accord 
when mature in January. 
Indian corn is the staple grain ; it is liable to failure unless on irrigated 
land. It is ready to cut a month or six weeks earlier under irrigation. The 
iarmers are poor and boiTow money at 30 per cent. Prices of beef 2d. per 
lb. ; mutton lid. ; fine flour, lid. per lb. 
Cyprus. 
Kepokt by Coksuls Lokg and White. — The agricultural capabilities of 
Cyprus are very great, the soil being rich and fertile, and capable of producing 
great varieties of crops; yet, fiom a want of capital, a large amount of good 
land hes waste, and the price of land, except in sume particular spot, such as 
madder lands at Famagousta, and cotton landa near the chief towns, is very 
.small. 
