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he ;i trial shipment from Port Elizabetli with a view to a regular trade 

 hiicr on if the experim-^iit shows this to be feasible. Tlie bulk of the 

 season's exports will, therefore, o-o throu<ili Capetown. While the 

 volume of the season's e<4'g- export trade is tluis vap-ue, and conse- 

 (jueutly the amount to be derived from the levy uncertain, ihe Govern- 

 ment has necessarily to move with circumspection, but arranp-ements 

 have already been made for the appointment, temporarily for the 

 time being, of a chief poultry officer. Mr. Bourlay, the Lecturer in 

 Poultry at the Potchefstroom School of Agriculture, Las been 

 seconded to fill this post, and he will arrange +or and supervise the 

 carrying- out of the inspection work at the i)oris undertaken in accord- 

 ance with the egg export regulations. Concurrently as far as possible, 

 and between the egg export seasons, lie will initiate an(i develop a 

 better organization of the poultry industry. He will advise the 

 Dejjai'tment on matters affecting the industry generally, as well as 

 legiilate and co-ordinate instruction in poultry at its educational 

 ( eiitres. At the same time, and for the present, he will keep in direct 

 touch witb his duties at Potchefstroom. 



In addition to the aboA^e post, two others are to be created; there 

 will be an Egg Inspector and Itinerary Poultry Instructor ^'or Cape- 

 town, a]ul one for Duiban. One of the vacancies has already been 

 tilled in the person of Mr. II. Leitch Anderson, who has now taken 

 up his duties in Capetown. In view, however, of the small volume 

 of trade that is expected to pass through Durban, it is not proposed to 

 hll the other vacancy just yet, but to arrange for Mr. Cross, the 

 Poultry Lecturer at th(> Cedara School of Agriculture, to carry out 

 whatever inspection mav be needed this season at that port. The 

 duties attached to these two posts are tb.e insi)ection of eggs intended 

 for export and itinerant instruction work, under the direction of the 

 chief xioultry officer, between the export seasons. 



The g]"eat advance that the past few years have seen in the 

 l)oultry industry of the I'nion, is due in large jueasure to the enthu- 

 siasm and labours of those engaged in it, and it is fitting that they 

 should be among the first to avail themselves of the facility for self- 

 lie Ip that the Agricultural Products Grading Act presents, for it is 

 the proceeds exjiected from the levy that will be depended on to 

 defray most of the expense incurred in the new development. 



The Export of Lucerne. 



Inquiries have recently been made by the Trade Commissioner, 

 London, and the Commissioner of Commerce on the Contineiit, 

 respecting the working up of an export trade in South African 

 lucerne. As an outcome Mr. Canham reports that though he has 

 spared no effort to obtain soirie definite idea as to the reception which 

 our lucerrie would be likely to meet on the Englisli nuirket, he has not 

 yet succeeded in securing a c[notation wliich might hv considered 

 as reliable. He thinks, therefore, that the question as to whether a 

 remunerative trade in South African lucerne could he established in 

 England, can only r^allv be decided by an actual sliipmeiit, and if 

 there is a large surplus ii; (he ITnion for ^^hicll a market is required, 

 the Trade Commissioner considers it would be worth the while of some 



