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Letter to Local Education Authorities. 



[Nov. 



fully planted to top and bush fruit. There is a general slope 

 to the south, and a sheltered belt of standard trees of Hessle Pears, 

 Merryweather and Farleigh Damsons, and John Downey Crab 

 Apples has been planted. These prolific pollen-bearing trees 

 should also assist in ensuring a good fertilisation of the quality 

 fruit trees proper. The apples chiefly planted are Worcester 

 Pearmain, King of the Pippins, Allington Pippin, Cox's Orange 

 Pippin, for dessert, and Lane's Prince Albert, Newton Wonder, 

 and Bramley Seedling for cooking purposes. Beurre Hardy, 

 Pitmaston Duchess, and Williams are the chief varieties of 

 pears, and Victoria, Czar, and Early Rivers the principal plums. 

 All these trees are propagated on East Mailing standardized 

 stocks, and are interplanted with bush fruits of gooseberries and 

 currants, between the rows of which there are grown various 

 kinds of vegetables. The whole is a typical fruit-growing small 

 holding. 



The plot has only been established a short time, and it is 

 impossible to predict the results, but it is certain that the plot 

 will be of great use to all fruit growers in the county, by demon- 

 strating the best stocks suitable for the propagation of fruit trees, 

 and the best methods of culture, pruning and care of the trees 

 in order to produce fruit of marketable quality. The station 

 should afford a stimulus to small holders in the district to engage 

 in these methods of cultivation. 



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The following letter has been sent to all Local Education 

 Authorities : — 



6th October, 1922. 



Sir, 



Clean Milk Production. 

 Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922. 



I am directed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to ask you to 

 be good enough to bring to the special notice of the Local Education Authority 

 for Agricultural Education the question of instruction in clean milk production, 

 in view of the passing of the Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922. As 

 your Authority are aware, the Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915, was 

 to have come into operation on 1st September, but in view of the heavy annual 

 expenditure involved in its administration, and the state of agriculture at the 

 present time, this larger measure has been postponed for a further three years. 

 In the meantime the Milk and Dairies Amendment) Act reflects in a measure 

 the growing public demand for cleaner milk. 



2. The principal features of this new Act relating to the subject of clean 

 milk are as follows : — (1) Local Authorities are empowered — subject to 

 appeal — to refuse to register, or to remove from the register, any milk retailer 

 if they are satisfied that such action is necessary in the interests of public 



