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from 80 to 96 per cent, of the maggots present in cattle sub- 

 jected to experiment. A single application was in some cases 

 sufficient to do this, but more certain results may be expected 

 from dressing twice at an interval of 2 days. 



The Committee wish, therefore, strongly to urge upon farmers 

 the desirability of carrying out for themselves trials with the 

 above-mentioned dressing during the Warble season. An 

 admirable arrangement would be to apply the dressing to the 

 cattle once a fortnight until May; in this way farmers will 

 not only advance their own interest by rendering their stock 

 immune to an objectionable and costly pest, but they will also 

 assist the Ministry in a very practical manner. The great 

 desideratum is that a result reached by patient experiment 

 should receive repeated tests by practical men working under 

 normal conditions. There is reason to believe that if this 

 campaign is followed up and the experimental side of the 

 Ministry's researches is carried from the Laboratory to the 

 farm, the grievous trouble to cattle and the heavy loss to the 

 farmer may come to an end within two or three years. 



The Committee would welcome at the Ministry's Offices any 

 communication from farmers interested in this matter, and 

 would be glad to receive in due course reports as to the progress 

 they may have made and the results obtained. 



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TuK first " World Poultry Congress," to be held i t The 



Hague and Scheveningen, in Holland, from September 6th to 



rrn, T,- I. w ij 13th, 1921, will be an event of inter- 

 The First World , . . i. i 



Con ress on i^ational significance to poultry-keepers. 



p This Congress will be an assembly of 



delegates from Governments, Teaching 



and Experimental Institutions, Poultry and other Societies, 



and persons interested in the development of poultry 



husbandry. 



The Congress has been organised by the International 

 Association of Poultry Instructors and Investigators. It was 

 intended originally to hold the first Congress at The Hague 

 in 1916, but the war made it necessary to postpone the 

 meeting until 1921. The programme is remarkable in its 

 range, including as it does papeis and discussions relating 

 to education, research, poultry hygiene and diseases, produc- 

 tion, distribution, co-operation and standardisation. The 

 exhibits will include the breeds and varieties of the world, the 

 latest inventions in poultry equipment and appliances, eduia- 



