BUTTER TRADE OF LA ROCHELLE. 83 

consisted of tropical products received indirectly as re-ex- 
ports. 
BUTTER TRADE OF LA ROCHELLE. 
Mr. Consui Warburton in his report to the Foreign Office 
on the trade of La Rochelle states that the remarkable 
feature in the agriculture of that district of France is the 
extraordinary development of the dairy business, which is 
superseding every other kind of farming, a large amount of 
capital being invested in co-operative and other dairies. 
To such an extent has butter-making been taken up, that 
the two departments of the Charentes, which a few years ago 
did not export any butter, now supply one-fourth of the total 
amount soldin the Paris market, and three times as much as 
Normandy and Brittany. 
This development is said to have brought a great increase 
OmpLosperity to the farmers, who get good prices 
ituicmnanchi smile aS | they can sprovide, the dairies 
returning them the butter-milk for fattening purposes, with 
the result that they are laying down all the land they can in 
grass and green crops for winter feeding, and keeping as 
many milch cows as possible. 
The State railway has organised butter trains, which leave 
every evening and collect the butter at different stations, 
reaching the Paris market early in the morning; in summer 
the butter is carried in refrigerating waggons, so that it 
arrives in perfect condition. 
[Foreign Office Reports, Annual Series. No. 2393: Price lyd.] 
AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVE AND INDUSTRIAL ASSO- 
CIATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. 
The Labour Department ofthe Board of Trade have recently 
issued a Directory of industrial associations in the United 
Kingdom, giving the name of the society, together with the 
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