g2 GRAIN EXPORT DIRECT FROM KHERSON. 

been sown from seed imported from Scotland and the balance 
from local seed. The yield from the Scottish seed was 55 
bushels per acre, and that from local seed only 28 bushels. 
[Poreign Office Report, Annual Series, No. 2414. Price 2d.| 

From the port of Kherson this year grain will be exported 
abroad direct for the first time, and the 
Cpa DOLE waist Dnieper Hegies, feseec uly grain 
Kherson hitherto exclusively to Odessa, will thus 
be in direct connection with the foreign 
market. Under present conditions steamers can load at 
Kherson to 17 feet, completing cargo, if necessary, at Odessa, 
but it is hoped that with the deepening of the Dnieper estu- 
aries this may soon be unnecessary.—Odessa Listok. 

By an Act dated 21st December, 1899, the South 
_ Australian Government has created a 
et mee eis Board ot eight members, six of whom are 
to be elected by the vine newer 
throughout the province, to inspect vineyards and imported 
vines or grapes, and order the destruction of any found 
infected with phylloxera. Vine growers contribute to a 
“Phylloxera Fund” according to the area of their vine- 
yards, and wine makers and distillers also pay into this 
fund a tonnage on the grapes they purchase, compersation 
being paid out of it to the owners whose vines are 
destroyed. The Governor of the Colony is also empowered 
to prohibit the importation of vines or grapes. | 

According to a report by Her Majesty’s Consul General 
: ‘ at Warsaw, the number of beet sugar 
ag ea m factories in poland is now 46, three new 
factories having been started during the 
past year ; the beet plantations in 1899 occupied an area of 
