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manciit agricultural representative fioiu Australia to the ITiiited States, 

 wlio.so duties should inehide keeping Australia in touch with improved 

 scientific and practical methods in agriculture and tlie supply of 

 promising varieties of cereals and other hops. 



14. That this Conference expresses its appreciation of the action 

 of the Executive Committee of the Advisory Council of Science and 

 Industry in calling it together, and is confident that the opportunit.y 

 of meeting and considting togethci- thus aflFordod to agricultural 

 scientists from the different Stalr~ will be beneficial to agrii-ullural 

 progress in Australia. 



BULLETINS FOR STOCK-OWNERS. 



The Commonwealth Advisory Council of Science and Industry 

 has just published a bulletin which will be of much interest to 

 stock-owners and to those connected with trades dependent on 

 cattle for their raw materials. The bulletin consists of the report 

 of a Special Committee appointed by the Council last year to review 

 the whole position of the tick pest, present and future, and make r?com- 

 mendations both as to future scientific research and as to immediate 

 remedial or preventive measures, whether by legislation or othenvise. 

 The Committee consisted of authorities on veterinary science, stock 

 inspectors, and representatives of the pastoral industry, and its recom- 

 mendations are therefore authoritative and worthy of careful considera- 

 tion by the Governments and persons concerned. 



The first portion of the bulletin contains an account of the cattle 

 tick itself, the diseases to which it gives rise in cattle, and a history of 

 the spread of the tick in Australia, ^faps of the present distribution 

 of the tick in Queensland and New South Wales show that the whole 

 of the coastal areas of the fonner State and the north-east corner of 

 the latter are now tick-infested. The bulletin next gives a review of 

 the losses, direct and indirect, which have been caused in Australia by 

 the tick invasion. The Committee states that if the enormous toll the 

 tick pest has exacted from the Commonwealth could be expressed fn 

 figures, the total amount involved would stagger the community. Each 

 year, so long as it is allowed to continue, the pest will enforce a heavy 

 penalty, to be met not only by the stock-owners, but by all interested in 

 business directly and indirectly 'dependent upon the cattle industry, as 

 well as by members of the general public in the increased cost of neces- 

 sary commodities such as meat, milk, butter, bacon, &c. After describ- 

 ing the methods of eradication adopted in America and Australia, and 

 giving a summary of the campaign for tick eradication in the United 

 States, which has been successful in freeing over 260,000 square miles 

 of country from the tick, and thus affords promise for similar action 

 in this country, the Committee makes specific recommendations as to 

 the action that should be taken in Australia. These recommendations 

 fall under two heads, (i) that a campaign for eradication should be 

 undertaken under Federal control; (ii) that further researches on the 



