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The Examination of Diseased Bees. [Mar., 



The Examination of Diseased Bees.— The Ministry desires to 

 inform bee-keepers that the examination of diseased bees is no longer 

 conducted at the Department of Comparative Anatomy, The Museum, 

 Oxford. Pending the appointment by the Ministry of a bacteriologist to 

 undertake such work, Dr. J. Rennie has kindly consented to carry out 

 examinations and to furnish reports to the bee-keepers concerned. In future, 

 therefore, specimens, together with the name and ' address of the sender, 

 should be sent to Dr. J. Rennie, Marischal College, University of Aberdeen. 



Reduction in Price of Sulphate of Ammonia. — Owing to a decline 

 in the world prices of nitrogenous Fertilisers, the makers have agreed to 

 reduce the price of Sulphate of Ammonia for the remainder of the 1920-21 

 Season. The net cash prices for Sulphate of Ammonia delivered to con- 

 sumer's nearest railway station or wharf in Great Britain, or in the case of 

 deliveries to Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man. f.o.b. British 

 port, in quantities of not less than 4 tons, will be : — 



January 1921 ... ... ... £23 16s. Od. per ton. 



February „ £24 3s. 6d. „ 



March— May £24 lis. Od. „ 



The conditions of sale and scales of allowances and additional charges 

 given in leaflet F.P.506/S.I. will remain in force, except that the trade discount 

 to Fertiliser Mixers, Agricultural Merchants and Co-operative Societies will be 

 increased. All orders already placed for January/May delivery will be 

 executed at the above prices, and the increased discount will be paid on them. 



As a number of Farmers, Fertiliser Mixers, Merchants and Co-operative 

 Societies were encouraged to take early deliveries of Sulphate of Ammonia by 

 the difference between the maximum prices for the earlier and later months of 

 the season, as originally announced, the British Sulphate of Ammonia 

 Federation, Ltd., has refunded certain sums on orders placed with it or with 

 its consent for Sulphate of Ammonia delivered and paid for at the August/ 

 December prices ; consequently farmers who purchased from merchants at the 

 prices ruling in these months should apply to their merchants for a correspond- 

 ing allowance to be made to them. 



Notice to Stallion Owners: Licences under the Horse 

 Breeding 1 Act, 1918.— Owners of stallions who intend to travel their 

 stallions during the 1921 season are reminded again that they will require 

 Licences from the Ministry to enable them to do so, and that as the Ministry 

 cannot undertake to issue licences at very short notice, owners of stallions 

 who postpone the necessary application may experience considerable delay in 

 obtaining them. 



Licences which were issued for the 1920 season expired on the 31st October 

 last, and any licence for that season not already returned should be forwarded 

 to the Ministry forthwith. Failure to return any expired licence renders an 

 owner liable to a fine of £5. 



A Map of Wart Disease Infected Areas.— The Ministry has issued 

 a map showing those districts in England and Wales which are now Infected 

 Areas under the Wart Disease of Potatoes Order of 1919. This map should 

 prove of value to all persons concerned in the distribution and movement of 

 " seed " potatoes. A licence must be obtained from the Ministry before any 

 " seed " potatoes, other than certified stocks of varieties approved by the 

 Ministry as immune to Wart Disease, are introduced into these Infected Areas. 



