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include purity of mother plantations or stocks, purity of scions (e.g-. 

 Crystal must not be found amongst Hanepoot), and in addition the 

 all-round good care of the nursery. The Commission recommend.-^ 

 further that the Secretary for Agriculture should appoint a capable 

 officer to undertake this work, and that from time to time a complete 

 list should appear in the Department's Journal showing all nurseries 

 regarding which the inspector has made a satisfactory report. 



Experiviental Plots {Vineyards). — The existing experimental 

 areas, now mostly eight years old, which are fairly well distributed 

 over the wine districts, and are now already giving useful indications 

 regarding the stocks used, should be still further extended. 



Future Covnnissions of Investigations. — In order to solve in a 

 satisfactory manner the problem of our grafted vineyards, the Com- 

 mission recommends that similar commissions of inquiry should be 

 appointed at least every five years, and that if possible one or more 

 of the members of the previous commission should be on the 

 succeeding one in order to be better able to note the change which 

 the grafted vineyards have undergone in the intervening period. 



South African Produce on Show. 



An appreciative article on the display of Soutli African ijroduce 

 at tlfc recent show of the Eoyal Agricultural Society, held at 

 Darlington, England, appears in the July, 1920, issue of " The 

 British and South African Export Gazette." Admirably staged 

 under the general supervision of the Union's Trade Commissioner in 

 London, Mr. A. Canham, there was a remarkably comprehensive 

 exhibit of South Africa's produce, including wool and mohair, hides 

 and skins, leather, wattle bark and extract, ostrich feathers, cotton, 

 tobacco, various cereals and fruits, wines, jams, dried fruit, meat, 

 butter, bacon, eggs, cheese, canned crayfish, minerals, timbers, and 

 fibres. There was evidence of extreme care and judgment in the 

 selection and preparation of each item, everything being most 

 attractively displayed. Altogether the exhibit is stated to have 

 constituted the most effective publicity effort hitlierto attempted 

 by the Union Government. The Royal Show is tlie largest of its 

 kind in England — perhaps in the whole world — and it is gratifying 

 to learn that this great opportunity of advertising the Union's 

 resources has been used with so much success. Following the out- 

 standing- victory of South African cheese exhibits at the London 

 Dairy Show last year (reference to which was made in the April, 1920, 

 number of the Jownal), the attractive display of our products at 

 the Royal Show is calculated to advertise the Union to good effect, 

 for, as the article referred to mentions, more than one manufacturer 

 has discovered a new source whence to draw his raw materials. 



