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from Canada showed some recovery, but those from the United 

 States continued to diminish, falling from 138000 cwts, to 55000 

 cwts. The importation of fresh whole milk practically ceased in 

 1909, only 21 cwts., being received as against 953 cwts. in 1908. 

 The total quantity of cream imported (6,837 cwts.) was almost the 

 same as in 1908, receipts from France increasing to 5 876 cwts., 

 but those from Norway and the Netherlands falling off. The im- 

 ports of separated milk (2 921 cwts.) practically the whole of which 

 was from France, arrived chiefly in February, March, November, 

 and December, and were 800 cwts., less than in 1908, but 200 cwts. 

 more than in 1907. About three-quarters of the separated milk 

 was described as machine-skimmed. 



XXXVIII. 



Aviculture. Poultry. Pigeons, etc. The feeding and fattening 

 of poultry. Production, preservation and trade of eggs. - 

 Trade in feathers and bird-skins. -- Bird-life in connection 

 with agriculture. Protection of bird-life from wanton des- 

 truction. Wild birds. 



EDWARD BROWN. British Breeds of Poultry. [Board of Agri- 

 culture and Fisheries, British}. Breeds of Live Stock. London, 

 1910, p. 1-137. 



The following are some extracts from the important official pu- 

 blication of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, in the part re- 

 garding Poultry. 



Great Britain has long been recognised as a country where 

 poultry of all kinds, equally with other classes of live stock, are 

 bred to their greatest perfection, both as to their external charac- 

 teristics and their economic qualities. In past centuries the Game 

 Fowl, bred for fighting, the Dorking, the White English or Ayles- 

 bury Duck, the two great types of Geese, and the Turkey, were 

 evolved by careful selection, while in more recent times the number 

 of races has been largely increased, either by the development of 



