500 



The Dogs Act, 1906. 



[NOV., 



1893 ; and the Board of Agriculture Act, 1889 (Section 2, 

 Sub-section 3). 



The administration of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, so 

 far as they relate to agricultural produce, forms the subject of 

 the first section of the Report. Information is given as to the 

 sampling carried out by local authorities, and different 

 methods of sampling are discussed. The question of the 

 prosecution of farmers for the sale of milk said to be genuine 

 though poor in quality, formed the subject of a circular letter 

 to local authorities, and in view of the comments made on 

 this communication, the Board's views on the question are set 

 forth in the Report at considerable length. A number of 

 observations are also made on the administration of the 

 Fertilizers and Feeding Stuffs Act. 



An account is given of the action the Board were able to 

 take in the course of the year, in regard to railway rates 

 and facilities. The miscellaneous subjects dealt with in the 

 Division cover a very wide field, and the Report gives par- 

 ticulars of those which appear of general interest, many of 

 which have already been referred to in this Journal. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have addressed the 

 following circular letter to Local Authorities in Great Britain 

 under the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 

 The Dogs Act, to 1903 :— 



4, Whitehall Place, S.W., 



27th October, 1906. 

 Sir, — I am directed by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 

 to ask you to be so good as to call the attention of your Local 

 Authority at an early date to the provisions of the Dogs Act, 

 1906, which will come into operation on the ist January next. 



2. Section two of the Act empowers the Board to make 

 Orders under the Diseases of Animals Acts for the following 

 purposes : — 



{a) For prescribing and regulating the wearing by dogs, 

 while in a highway or in a place of public resort, of a collar 

 with the name and address of the owner inscribed on the 

 collar or on a plate or badge attached thereto : 



{U) with a view to the prevention of worrying of cattle, 

 for preventing dogs or any class of dogs from straying 



