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Travelling Research Fellowships of £250 each have been awarded to : — 



Mr. B. A. Keen, Soil Physicist at the Rothamsted Experimental 

 Station, for a visit to America in the Autumn of 1021. 



Professor R. G. Stapledon, Director of the Aberystwyth Plant Breed- 

 ing Station, for a visit to America in 1922. 

 The Scholarships have been established to assist promising candidates 

 to qualify as research workers with a view to their contributing to the develop- 

 ment of agricultural and veterinary research. 



Travelling Fellowships were instituted last year to enable selected members 

 of the staffs of research institutes aided by the Ministry to visit institutions 

 abroad where work on similar or cognate subjects is carried on and to study 

 at first hand the methods employed there. 



Leaflets issued by the Ministry. — Since the date of the list 

 given on page 763 of the November issue of the Journal, three new leaflets 

 .have been issued : — 



No. 370. — Nitrogenous Manures. 

 „ 371. — The Packing of Eggs for Hatching and the Management of 



the Sitting Hen. 

 „ 377. — " Reversion " or Nettlehead of Black Currant. 



The following leaflets have been re-written : — 

 No. 4. — Winter Moths. 

 „ 41. — Red Spiders. 

 „ 98. — Grading and Packing of Apples. 



The following have been revised : — 

 No. 105.— Wart Disease. 



162. — Propagating Apples, Pears, Plums, and Cherries. 

 „ 255.— The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906. 

 ., 279. — Technical Advice for Farmers. 



„ 290. — The Cattle Testing Station of the Ministry of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries. 



„ 352. — The Control of Pests of Fruit Trees in Gardens and Small 

 Orchards. 



The following has been withdrawn : — 



F.P. 53. — Storage of Sulphate of Ammmonia. 



Distribution of Leaflets. — The leaflets issued by the Ministry have hitherto 

 been issued free of charge, but in view of the increased cost of printing and 

 paper, and the need for economy in Government expenditure, it has been 

 decided that a charge must in future be made in all cases where more than 

 one (or at the most two) leaflets are required. 



Persons who require information on a definite point dealt with in one of 

 the leaflets can therefore obtain the leaflet in question free of charge, but if 

 several leaflets are required, a charge will be made at the rate of Id. each or 

 9d. per dozen, post free. Where groups of leaflets dealing with specific 

 subjects are required, the new Sectional Volumes of leaflets should be purchased 



Leaflets required by Agricultural committees, local education authorities, 

 •agricultural colleges, farm institutes, farmers' clubs, allotment societies, etc., 

 for distribution, will be supplied at the rate of 4s. per 100, carriage free. 



