1922.] 



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183 



The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is prepared to 

 receive, not later than the 15th May next, applications for grants, 



Grants for ^ n a ^ °^ sc * en ^ c investigation bearing on 

 . agriculture to be carried out in England and 



Research Wal es during the academic year commenc- 

 ing 1st October, 1922. The conditions on 

 which these grants are offered are set out on the prescribed form 

 of application (A230/1), of which copies may be obtained from 

 the Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Whitehall 

 Place, London, S.W.I. 



The proposed new regulations for the control of Wart Disease, 

 which w r ere to have been brought into operation by the Ministry 

 Wart Disease °^ Agriculture and Fisheries at the conclu- 

 , _ . . sion of the 1922 planting season, are still 



of Potatoes , . , . * , ^ i T - • t > 



_ ... under consideration by the Minister s 



Regulations. . , . ~ . LL J m , ,,. . . 



° Advisory Committees. The Ministry can. 



however, inform potato growers that no restrictions addi- 

 tional to those operating in 1921 will be imposed which will 

 affect the distribution of the 1922 potato crop, or of the entry 

 into England and Wales of seed potatoes produced during 1922 

 in Scotland or Ireland. 



The Great Western Railway Company have drawn the 



Ministry's attention to certain statements which appeared in an 



.„ . article in this Journal for November, 1921, 



Horticulture in , Tr . , _ _ ' 



the Penzance en ""ed Horticulture in the Penzance Area 



> ,~ of Cornwall. 



Area of Cornwall. n . . , , , 



The Company point out that the present 



arrangements for the receiving and forwarding of the Cornish 

 broccoli and vegetable traffic had been already the subject of 

 discussion between the Railway Company and the Cornish 

 ] branch of the National Farmers' Union, and had been agreed 

 to by the latter. 



The whole question has recently been under discussion 

 between the Ministry and the Railway Company, who are 

 anxious to provide every facility for the transport of these com- 

 modities under the most favourable conditions. 



The Ministry is glad to recognise the progressive and liberal 

 attitude adopted by the Great Western Railway Company, 



