1920.] 



Official Notices and Circulars. 



If will be seen from these provisions that the County Council may so 

 constitute their Agricultural Committee that the Small Holdings and 

 Allotments Committee and the Agricultural Executive Committee 

 shall become, without substantial alteration, component parts of the 

 new committee, and carry on without interruption the work of wliich 

 their members have acquired an intimate knowledge. 



Attention is, however, called to Sub-section (4) ' (a) of Section 7 of 

 the Act, which requires that a scheme shall provide for the appointment 

 by the Minister of not more than one-third of the members of the 

 Agricultural Committee or of any Sub-Committee to which the powers 

 of that Committee are delegated. Ihe Minister will expect to appoint 

 the full quota of members of the Small Holdings and Allotments Sub- 

 Committee, the Agricultural Executive Committee and any other 

 Sub-Committee whose operations entail actual or contingent liabilities 

 for expenditure from State funds. 



A further Circular will be issued shortly containing suggestions as 

 to the lines on which a scheme for constituting an Agricultural Com- 

 mittee should be prepared and enclosing a Model Scheme. In the 

 meantime any County Council is at liberty to formulate its scheme, 

 and it may, therefore, be useful to remind the Council that schemes 

 must provide for the appointment of such persons only as have practical, 

 commercial, technical or scientific knowledge of agriculture, or an 

 interest in agricultural land, and for the inclusion of women as well as 

 men. 



I am to add that the further circular referred to above will deal not 

 only with matters of organisation but also with the question of finance 

 and accounts. 



I am, etc., 

 (Signed) Lawrence Weavi:r, 



Director-General of Land Seitloncut. 



The following information was contained in a Memorandum recently 

 issued to County Horticultural Sub-Committees by the Ministry : — 



Inirodiiclion. — ^The important part played 

 Potato Trials. by the potato crop makes it desirable that 

 growers should be able to obtain adequate 

 and reliable information on all matters relating to potato culture, 

 the many phases of which may best be brought to the growers' notice 

 through demonstration plots instituted for the purpose of finding out 

 those varieties best suited to the different districts and of demonstrating 

 the approved methods of potato culture. 



Wart Disease Note. — The Ministry require the planting of immune 

 varieties in those areas in which Wart Disease is known to be common 

 and widespread, and in such areas committees should use immune 

 varieties only for their trials ; whilst those committees in the clean 

 districts should demonstrate the value of these immune varieties and 

 test their comparative merits with well-known susceptible 'kinds. 



Supply of Seed. — The source of the seed potato influences the resulting 

 crop to such an extent that all the seed should be obtained from the 

 same source. It is advisable, therefore, that the seed should be pur- 

 chased in bulk by the Ministry and distributed to the various com- 

 mittees. The seed potatoes will be invoiced at cost price to the 

 committees. 



