United States Duty on Horses. 



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The number of co-operative agricultural societies promoted 

 by the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society amounted, in 

 1902, to 714, with a membership of 

 ffita 7°>°°a The total included 248 co- 



Ireland. operative dairy societies, 8 1 auxiliary 



dairy societies, 125 agricultural purchase 

 and sale societies, 31 poultry societies, 146 co-operative banks, 

 80 miscellaneous, and 3 federations. 



[The Irish Homestead Almanac, 1903.] 



In December last the Board of Appraisers at New York 



decided that horses imported into the United States for 



breeding purposes, but which were in- 



Duty on Horses tended by the importer, at the time of 

 Imported into the . \ c \ , 

 United States importation, for sale, were not entitled 



to free entry, but were properly dutiable 



according to value under the provisions of the Tariff. But 



according to the Breeders' Gazette, a Bill was passed by both 



Houses of Congress, on March 2nd, 1903, which provides that 



all animals registered in books approved by the Secretary of 



Agriculture shall be admitted free of duty into the United 



States, whether they are imported for purposes of sale or not. 



