856 



Agriculture Abroad. 



[Dec, 



producers were to be taken and kept for inspection, as well as 

 delivered to each producer with payments for milk or cream. 



The " Dairymen's Association of Nova Scotia " was founded 

 by a later Statute, and an annual grant of 1,000 dollars pro- 

 vided for it. The main object of the Association was "the 

 furthering of the dairy industry of Nova Scotia," and included 

 the holding of an Annual Convention, the fostering of co-opera- 

 tion amongst dairymen, the holding of local dairy meetings, 

 exhibitions of dairy products, and the education of dairymen. 



Sufficient has been said to make it clear that the dairy in- 

 dustry in Nova Scotia is progressing upon careful and well- 

 conceived lines. To show how it has extended — and there is 

 room for very considerable extension in the province — the 

 amount of creamery butter produced in 1911 was 275,000 lb., 

 and in 1919, 2,093,000 lb. Even so, in 1918, 68 per cent, of 

 the butter manufactured was still home-made, but the patrons 

 of the creameries are increasing in number annually. The 

 average yield per cow is increasing slowly. The Government 

 Bailways provide weekly refrigerator car services for butter, 

 and producers can forward any amount from a 1 lb. package 

 upwards for shipment at Halifax. It is expected that before 

 long Nova Scotia will be able to ship butter in larger quan- 

 tities to Great Britain and take its share in the market which 

 awaits hioh-cuiss colonial butters in this country. 



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The Noxious Weeds Act of the Legislative Assembly of Mani- 

 toba, which came into operation last year and takes the place of 



_ . . J earlier legislation on the subiect, imposes on 



Injurious Weeds „ , . ,u ^x. a \ \ \ 

 • -n/r -f v» Jjocal Authorities the duty oi eniorcmg 



the destruction, m particular, oi several 

 kinds of thistles, and a variety of mustard which infests the corn- 

 producing land of the Province. 



The Act provides for the appointment by every Local Authority 

 of at least one weeds inspector, who is to be employed solely in 

 the inspection of lands and the supervision of weed destruction 

 during the summer months. In the case of unorganized terri- 

 tory, similar appointments are made by the Lieutenant- 

 Governor-in-Coancil. 



The onus of destroying the scheduled weeds is placed on the 

 occupier of the land, or, in the case of unoccupied land, on the 

 owner or his agent. The primary duty of an inspector is to see 

 that the work is properly carried out in his district, but in case 



