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Show RMING IN FOREIGN LANDS. Floods in North Wales swept away and drowr.oJ large numbers of cattle. A considerable breadth of corn land has been sown with wheat and rye in Russia. Owing to a scarcity of rain in Argentine, Argen-tine, the wool clip will be rather heavy ttnd greasy. Tiik New Zalund government has in contemplation the announcement that the colony is free from scab in sheep. TnYLLOXERA has been spreading in New South Wales, and every precaution is taken to quarantine the affected dia'. trials. Thr native press of India has taUen an alarmist view of the harvest prospects pros-pects in Itengal, where lunch rain was needed. Four and mouth disease has iiu-reaseil considerably in the affected distrioU of Germany, and has broken out in districts dis-tricts that were previously not affected. Tiik Itahama islands are importing fertilizers from the United States, the quantity In 1811 being 2,175 barrels, with probabilities of an increase this year. Australian vitieiilturists are agitating agitat-ing for a bonus of six cents per gallon on all wine made in the colonies that reaches a certain standard of excellence. |