1920.] Official Notices and Circulars. 



but when he is taken away from his usual work and put for a sub- 

 stantial time in real agricultural work he is entitled to the minimum 

 wage. The actual orders of the Wages Board were not produced, 

 but the applicant is entitled to the difference bet\veen the minimum 

 wage and the actual wage paid to him for four weeks. If this is not 

 agreed, I remit to the Registrar to assess the amount." {Wages Board 

 Gazette, 15th January, 1920.) 



An Order applying the Profiteering Act to 

 Ti«««4.««^;v,« rr„,. hay and straw has been made by the Board 

 Profiteering on Hay ^/^^^^^ ^he text of this Order was 

 and Straw. published in the issue of the London 



Gazette for 6th January. 



The Food Controller has issued an Order revoking, as from ist 

 February, 1920, the Oils, Oil Cakes and Meals (Requisition) Order, 1917. 



Previous references to this Order w^ere pub- 

 Revocation of Oils, Oil Ushed in the issues of this for December, 

 Cakes and Meals Order, ^^^^^ p ^^^^^ ^nd May, 1919, p. 211. 

 X917. 



It was announced by the Food Controller on the 31st January, that 

 the administration of the regulations affecting the control of hides 



hitherto exercised by the Ministry of Munitions 

 The Control of Hides, will be vested in the INIinistry of Food for the 



remainder of the period of meat control. 



According to the issue of the Seed World (United States) for 19th 

 December last, it would appear from information furnished by the 

 Agricultural Adviser to the Danish Government 



Seed Production in that Denmark must now be regarded as a 

 Denmark and United serious competitor in the world market for 



States of America, certain kinds of seed, the supply of which 

 before the War was practically the monopoly 

 of English growers. In 191 6 the acreage under turnips for seed in 

 Denmark was less than 3,500 acres ; last year it had increased to 

 16,677 acres. Swede seed showed an increase from 2,372 to 7.790 

 acres, and mangold from 3,410 to 5,310 acres in the same period. 

 The remarkable extension of seed growing in Denmark has been 

 caused by the rapid rise in seed prices during thte War. Many Danish 

 farmers took up the growing of seeds, who, lacking the knowledge 

 and experience of old growers and frequently unable to obtain satis- 

 factory stock seed for planting, could not maintain the high quality 

 which has characterised Danish-grown seeds in the past ; nevertheless, 

 the increased production must affect the hold that the English growers 

 have had on the w^orld market for such seeds. 



Attention is also being given to the growing of root seeds in the 

 United States of America. Before the War the production was 

 negligible, but last year the States produced 123,000 lb. of swede and 

 456,000 lb. of turnip seed. 



