1040 Official Notices and Circulars. LJ-^^'-' 



head of Joint Forestry Branches of the Board of Agriculture and 

 Office of Woods. Distinguished career at Adelaide and Oxford 

 Universities in pure science and forestry. 



Colonel W. T. Steuart-Fotheringham.— Member of the Interim 

 Forest Authority. Assistant to Assistant Controller (Scotland), 

 Timber Supply Department. Identified with forestry development 

 in Scotland. Will represent Scotland. 



The following Circular Letter (No. 64,956/H) was addressed to the 

 CouncDs of Boroughs (including Metropolitan Boroughs) and Urban 

 and Rural Districts in England and Wales by 

 By-laws aflfecting the the Board on 1 8th November 



Breeding of Pigs Sir, — I am directed by the President of the 



and Poultry.* Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to refer to 

 the Circular Letter which was issued by the 

 Local Government Board on 28th May, 191 8, f suggesting that Local 

 Authorities should give encouragement in the keeping of pigs by not 

 enforcing by-laws against such pig-keeping, provided that the interests 

 of public health were not seriously jeopardised, and to say that the 

 Board of Agriculture are receiving complaints from persons who have 

 undertaken the keeping of pigs and poultry that they have been informed 

 that in future the by-laws will be strictly enforced. 



I am to point out that the Board of Agriculture are very strongly of 

 opinion that the necessity for encouraging the keeping of pigs and also 

 of poultry is still ver^^ great, and will continue to be so for the next few 

 years, and under these circumstances I am to express the hope that your 

 Local Authority will give all possible facilities consistent with the 

 maintenance of public health for the keeping of pigs and poultr}^ and 

 to that end, and, wherever local circumstances will allow, refrain from 

 enforcing by-laws^prohib/tive of the keeping of such live stock. 



I am, etc., 

 (Signed) A. D. Hall, 



Secretary. 



The^ Board "desire to give notice of the publication of the eighth 

 volume of the Special Reports on the Mineral Resources of Great Britain, 

 which have been prepared by the Director of 

 Special Reports on the Geological Survey in response to numerous 

 the Mineral Resources inquiries that have arisen through the con- 

 of Great Britain. ditions brought about by the late War. 

 Price 95. net. 



This volume, which is one of a series of six dealing with the subject 

 of the iron ores of Great Britain, gives a general account of the geology 

 of the haematite occurrences in West Cumberland, Lancashire and the 

 Lake District, the nature of the ore bodies and the history of the 

 development of the v/orkings. The varieties and constitution of the 

 ores are given in detail, with many analyses. Modern methods of 

 mining are described and statistics of output and estimated reserves are 

 given. The volume concludes with a detailed account of each mine. 



Copies may be obtained through any bookseller from the Director- 

 General, ^Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. • 



* This Notice was omittc d from last month's Journal owing to want of space, 

 t Not printed in this Journal. 



