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In the course of 1905 several new developments in the issue 



and distribution of the Board's leaflets were introduced, with 



the object of bringing the leaflets to the 



Distribution of notice of those who were most likely to 

 the Board s 



Leaflets. profit by them, and at the same time, often 

 least likely to see them. A circular letter 

 was sent in February to the Clerks of all Urban and Rural 

 District Councils in England, saying that the attention 

 of the Board had frequently been called to the defective 

 and unsatisfactory state of many of the pigsties in Great 

 Britain, not only in the neighbourhood of towns, but also in 

 country places, and drawing attention to the recommendations 

 set out in leaflet No, 121 on the Construction of Pigsties. It 

 was asked whether any steps could be taken to bring them to 

 the notice of the pig-owners in each district. The circular letter 

 met with a very ready response. No fewer than 752 local 

 Authorities replied that they would be prepared to distribute 

 copies of the leaflet, and in a very short time 90,000 were in this 

 way put into the hands of small pig-owners. At the request of 

 some of the Welsh authorities, the leaflet was afterwards trans- 

 lated into Welsh, and 9,000 copies were in the same manner 

 circulated in the Principality. A number of local authorities 

 distributed copies of the leaflet. No. 146, on Milk Tests for 

 Farmers, among the cowkeepers and dairymen in their neigh- 

 bourhood, and later in the year, when leaflet No. 151, on 

 Cleanliness in the Dairy, was published, several medical officers 

 of health and sanitary inspectors applied for copies, which were 

 sent by them to the same class of people. Some of the large 

 milk supply companies circulated copies among their milk pro- 

 ducing customers, so that about 22,000 were distributed in one 

 way and another during the last five months of the year. 



During the course of the year the Board issued a leaflet on 

 the Felted Beech Coccus {Cryptococcus Fagi), and as they weie 

 informed that the pest was on the increase, and that large 

 numbers of trees were attacked, they thought it advisable to 

 give the leaflet the widest possible circulation among persons 

 interested. The Royal English Arboricultural Society, the 

 Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, the Land Agents' 

 Society, the Scottish Factors' Society, the Surveyors' Institution, 



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