go CATTLE BREEDING IN PARAGUAY. 

The importation into Russia of preserved vegetables 
containing salts cf copper, and the 
Importation of preparation and sale of such preserved 
Preserved — vegetables within the limits of th 
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Russia. Russian Empire, are prohibited by 
regulations which came into force on 
May 14th last. 

A Foreign Office Report on the Trade of Paraguay states 
that caitle breeding offers one of the few 
Cattle Breeding sound and paying investments for foreign 
in Paraguay. capital in Paraguay. The minimum 
capital required for starting this business 
would be from £1,500 to £2,000, which should, if compe- 
tently manayed, pay 20 to 30 per cent. after three years. 
One league of good grazing land (4,692 acres) is calculated 
to be sufficient to feed from 1,000 to 1,200 head of cattle. The 
best grazing land is found in the north of Paraguay, in 
Misiones and Concepcion; good land is also to be found in 
the Paraguayan Chaco. Some land was lately sold in the 
North at £200 per league. Really good pasturage is, how- 
ever, not to be found everywhere, and it must be remembered 
that the cattle farmer has two serious difficulties to contend 
with in drought and locusts. The prices of fat cattle in 1899 
were—for steers and oxen 42 58. to £3 5s., and for cows from 
£1 12s. 6d. to £2 15s. The cattle in Paraguay are stated 
to number about 2,500,000, whilst there are also 200,000 
sheep, and 300,000 horses. 
| Forezgn Office Report, Annual Series, No. 2,426 Price 1d.] 

In Hungary bee-keeping has made considerable progress, 
and comparatively large quantities of 
Bee-Keeping honey and wax are exported. In the 
in Hungary. autumn of 1897, the latest year for which 
statistics are available, the number of 
swarms of bees enumerated in the country was 641,127, of 
