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old trees. Irrigation can be practised if necessary' as there is a good well 

 with a motor pump. A new oven for cocoons has been built. 



9) Development oj the various branches. -• The writer points out 

 that the organisation will need to be extended more particularly as follows: 



a) The cultivation of the mulberry tree must receive m,ore atten- 

 tion, manurial trials shotild be made and methods of pruning tested. 



b) Itinerant inspectors and advisers should be appointed. 



c) Cold storage should be established for the hibernation of ^raine 

 with store rooms large enough to hold 30 000 oz. of fir-.iine. so that all the 

 rearers of the Murcia district would be able to use them. 



d) The Station should undertake the disinfection of rearing houses 

 as enquiries on this subject are constantly being received. 



e) The foundation of a practical School of Agriculture and of 

 a school for the special training of workmen is also under consideration. 



1204 - Wild Silkworms of Africa — See this Bulletin N°. 1162. 



FARM ENGINEERING. 



1205 - Manufacture and Co-operative Supply of Agricultural Machinery and Imple- 

 ments in the Russian Empire in 1913 (i) — i. XI,EniEBoii M.), (Dechevoj m.), Manu- 

 facture of agricultural machinery in Russia, in Mamuna eh cctbCKOJUo Xosmioneio 

 (Agricultural Machinery), Nos. 10 and 11, pp. 392-394 and 430-434. Kiev, May 31 and 

 June 15 1916. — IL KoBAJib B. (Kovai, V. I).), Co-operative supply of agricultural 

 machinei'y. Ibid, No. i. pp. ri-i6. Kiev, January 15, 1916. 



I. — The Office for Agricultural Machinery in the Russian Ministry 

 of Agriculture has collected data as to the manufacture of machinery and 

 implements in Russia in 1913 The more important of these are as follows. 

 The total number of undertakings engaged in the production of agri- 

 cultural machinery and implements in 1913 was 921 (against 826 in the 

 previous year), of which 770 were in 48 provinces of European Russia, 108 

 in Poland, 27 in the Caucasus and 16 in Siberia. All these concerns manu- 

 factured in 1913 machines and implements of a value of £ 6 437 000 

 (£ 5 366 000 in 1911 and £5 600 000 in 1912), cf which £5 841 000 came from 

 the provinces of Euro])ean Russia, £ 491 700 from Poland, £ .45 oy» from 

 the Caucasus and £ 59 260 from Siberia. The industry has developed 

 especially in Southern Russia, n(;tably in the province of Kheron, followed 

 in decreasing order by the provinces of Ekatcrinoslav, Taurida, Kharkov 

 and the Don Cossacks. Elsewhere the manufacture of farm machinery is 

 higlily successful in the provinces of Moscow, Orel, Kiev, lyivonia, Warsaw. 

 Perm, Kaluga and Lublin. 



AGRICULTURAL 

 MACmNERY 



AND 

 IMPLEMENT? 



[i) On this subject : in lyii, sec A'. iyi.|, Xu. 562 ; in i(ji_\ sec A'. 1915, Xo. 94( 



