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when properly fed, in conjunction with other foods, it is of great value to the 
animals and money in the pocket of the farmer. Gluten meal, gluten feed, and 
chop feed are other cattle foods that owe their origin to the different factories 
employed in converting corn into products of commercial and scientific use. 
The manufacture of glucose has opened up a whole field of new industries, 
and the glucose made from corn enters quite extensively into the refining of 
syrups, jellies, and fruit preserves. It is also used by leather tanners and 
brewers. The sugar and starch made from corn form other branches of 
important industries. Different grades of grape sugar are made from the corn, 
and they are used by ale brewers and tanners, while the better grades are 
employed by apothecaries and confectioners. Pearl and powdered starch come 
from the corn, and also destrin and flourin. The former is employed in the 
manufacture of mucilage and glue, and the latter is mixed with flour. The new 
uses to which these by-products of corn are put multiply rapidly, and every new 
employment of any of dion makes a greater demand upon the corn crop. It is 
all along this line that improvements are being made which encourage the corn 
farmers and improve the future for them. If it were not for the several dozen 
different articles which are made from corn, the farmers of the corn belt would 
long since have been ruined. A. crop of 300,000,000 bushels would simply 
swamp them, and make corn so cheap that it would not pay to harvest it. But 
with this enormous crop in view, the farmers are happy and jubilant, because 
there is sufficient demand for the product to keep the prices up. 
THE SHEEP OF THE WORLD. 
Anone the numerous tables enshrined in the annual volume of the Agricultural 
Returns none are more interesting than those relating to the crops and live 
stock of foreign countries and British possessions. The data from which these 
are compiled ave varied, and. the information is necessarily incomplete, and in 
many cases by no means up to date, although, of course, it is brought down 
to the latest year for which it is available. As regards the number of sheep, 
the following figures showing the number possessed by each country in the 
latest year for which returns have been published are noteworthy :— 
Algeria uy, eh ... 7,435,000 India, British Se ... 16,875,0°0 
Argentina... . ... 75,000,000 Italy .., Pe Ate, ... 6,900,000 
Australasia ... A ... 103,000,000 Norway era) i ... 1,417,000 
Austria , ied ... 8,187,000. Poland 2 3 ia -.. . 9,755,000 
Belgium... a 236,000 Roumania ... a .. 5,002,000 
Bulgaria... et ... 6,868,000 Russia in Europe .., ... 44,465,000 
Canada a7 a ... 1,690,000 Servia i of: ..» 3,094,000 
Cape of Good Hope ... 14,000,000 Spain ey, itt ... 13,859,000 
Denmark... sds ... 1,246,000 Sweden we Ne «1,298,000 
France as svt ... 21,445,000. Switzerland ... Tt ii, 272,000 
Germany... mm ... 10,866,000 U.S.A. ity wm ws» 87,657,000 
Holland... on va 709,000 Uruguay... pete eG} 307200) 
Hungary... ae .. 8,122,000 
The great sheep-breeding countries of the world, therefore, so far as these 
figures show, are Australasia, Argentina, Russia, and the United States. All 
of these possess more sheep than the United Kingdom, which in 1898 had 
31,102,000. But in proportion to area the United Kingdom enormously sur- 
passes them, the four countries mentioned having, of course, immense terri- 
tories. The figures, which are given in the Agricultural Returns, shows that 
the United States cover 2,292,000,000 acres ; Australasia, 1,974,000,000 acres ; 
Russia in Europe, 1,244,000,000 acres; and Argentine, 715,000,000 acres. ‘The 
United Kingdom, on the other hand, covers only the comparatively insignificant 
area of 77,000,000 acres.— Agricultural Gazette, London, 
