1920.] 



Potash Supplies. 



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During the 1919-20 season a considerable quantity of high- 

 grade potash salts was imported from Germany by the Govern- 

 Potash men t in exchange for food supplied in the 



« ,. spring of 1919. Alsatian potash was also 



imported on private account under licence 

 on a large scale. There are now no longer any import restric- 

 tions, and merchants are free to import potash without licence 

 from either Germany or Alsace. As the Government is 

 making no official arrangements for its importation from either 

 country, farmers will have to rely for their supplies on the 

 efforts of private firms, and the best way to ensure that they 

 will obtain them is to place their orders early with their usual 

 merchant or co-operative society in order that these may pass 

 on their orders in good time to the importers. Sylvinite, 

 14-16 per cent. (French kainit), 20-22 and 30-32 per cent. 

 (French potash manure salts), and miniate of potash, can be 

 obtained from Alsace; and 12 per cent, kainit, 20 per cent, and 

 30 per cent, potash salts, and miniate and sulphate of potash 



from Germany. 



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The development of Milk Recording Societies affords one 

 of the most promising aspects of the agricultural situation. Not 

 Milk Recordin are * nese Societies doing very good 



Societies* " wor ^ ro improve the quantity and quality 

 . , . ' of milk and to weed out unthrifty animals 

 An Interesting , . , , , 



n . m the dairy herd, but they are now 



* ' beginning to sit up and take notice of their 



neighbours. They are coming very rightly to the conclusion that 

 they either are or must be better than those neighbours, and in 

 order to put the question of superiority to a test they are estab- 

 lishing dairy herds competitions. Such a competition, open to 

 members of Milk Recording Societies operating under the 

 Ministry of Agriculture in the counties of Surrey, Sussex and 

 Kent, has recently been instituted in connection with the Agri- 

 cultural Show at Tunbridge Wells. The authorities provided two 

 special classes, and the Committee were fortunate enough to 

 obtain the services as judges of Mr. A. F. Chillingworth and 

 Mr. Robert Hobbs. These gentlemen in the course of their 

 duties were compelled to travel some twelve hundred miles, for 

 there were upwards of one hundred entries, divided into two 

 classes (] I herds of twenty-five cows and under, and (2] herds of 

 twenty-six cows and over. In all. the judges inspected one 

 hundred and one herds. They report that not only was the 

 standard of dairy cattle satisfactory but that they were pleased 



