NOTES FOR FARMERS.

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NOTES FOR FARMERS.

White Argentina is often cj noted as a leading tv heat-producing country with which California cannot compete, it must not bo interred that it is really, as yet, one of the great wheat-producing countries of the world. Its product in 1895 was only 60,000,000 bushels, in which, it was nearly equalled by Canada (57,000,000), and was exceeded by the United States (467,000,000), Hungary (146,000,000), Roumamia (68,000,000), Italy (10(3,000,000), Spain (92,000,000), France (339,000,000), Germany (110,000,000), Russia in Europe (292,000,000), the North Caucasus Russia in Asia (83,000,000.)

and British India (234,000,000). The aggregate of the world’s supply of wheat in 1895 was over 2,500,000,000 of bushels, of which the United States produced more than any other. The British Government in granting aid to agricultural schools restricts assistance for the most part to such as offer courses for two full years, and at the same time shorter courses on special topics. Tho schools are also required to oversee such experiments aS the county authorities may prescribe. These schools are aided, but not fully supported by tho Government. Fees are charged to scholars.

In Russia the forest area covers 42 percent of the whole surface ; in Sweden 3v> per cent; iu Austria 33 per cent ; iu Germany 26 per cent; in France 16 per cent : and in Great Britain and Ireland only 4 per cent.