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The Wisbech fruit growers have many problems needing in- 

 vestigation, relating to the proper manures for silt soil, and to 

 the control of weevils, capsid bugs and other pests prevalent in 

 the eastern counties, and they should derive much benefit from 

 local experiments carried out on scientific lines. 



In connection with the proposal emanating from the Dairy 



Industry in America to hold a World's Dairy Congress at 



^ Philadelphia in October, 1923, a Confer- 



coiii6r6iiC6 on ^ , i- ,1 ^,v,^^,n . 



,1. ^ • ence of representatives oi the vaiious 



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oongress, IVJZ^. ^^^^ 28th July at the 



^Ministry of Agriculture under the Chairmanship of Sir Francis 

 Floud, K.C.B., Permanent Secretary. 



The Conference was addressed by Professor H. E. Van 

 Xorman, President of the Congress, who placed before it the 

 details of the proposal, emphasising the views of the promoters 

 of the Congress that milk was an essential food for man and 

 could, w^ith great improvement in the health of most countries' 

 population, be consumed in much greater quantity than at 

 present. He pointed out that the Congress was intended to 

 provide an international exchange for the most recent scientific 

 knowledge and practice in regard to the dairy industry, to 

 afford an opportunity for discussing the various systems of 

 regulation and State control of the Industry, and to con- 

 sider the influence of dairy products on national health and their 

 vital importance to the development of the people. He stressed 

 the need for increased co-operation amongst producers in im- 

 proving the conditions of the industry, and generally discussed 

 the benefits which were expected to flow from the holding of 

 the Congress. 



There were present representatives of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society, the National Farmers' Union, the British Dairy 

 Farmers' Association, the Agricultural Organisation Society, 

 the Central Chamber of Agriculture, Milk Producers' Asso- 

 ciations, Milk Distributors' Associations, the Milk Publicity 

 Council and also representatives of some of the Overseas Domi- 

 nions and of the various Government Departments interested. 

 ^Manufacturers of milk products and dairy machinery and appa- 

 ratus, breed and milk-recording societies, educational and 

 scientific societies, and other bodies interested were also 

 represented. 



