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Miscellaneous Notes. 



[JAN, 



Poultry Shozv at Paris. — An International Poultry Exhibi- 

 tion, organized by the Societe des Aviculteurs Francais will be 

 held at Paris from 5th to 12th February, 1907. Goods intended 

 for the Exhibition will be allowed to be forwarded direct to 

 the Exhibition Buildings without Customs inspection at the 

 frontier. 



Siberian Butteh Exports. — The British Commercial Agent in 

 Russia (Mr. H. Cooke) reports on the authority of the official 

 Commercial and Industrial Gazette that owing to the increasing 

 demands of the English and German markets, and to the 

 growing development of the Siberian production, the export 

 of Siberian butter for the first ten months of the current year 

 has exceeded the twelve months' export of any previous year. 

 The export from Cheliabinsk, the Siberian western frontier 

 station, by rail, amounted in these ten months to 2,702,846 

 pouds (97,605,174 lb.) as against 1,938,000 pouds in 1905. 



Importation of Litcerne Seed i^ito Argentina. — The Board 

 are informed through the Foreign Office that by a Decree 

 dated the 27th of November, 1906, Article 2 of the Decree of 

 March i8th, 1905,"^ concerning the importation into Argentina 

 of the seed of lucerne and other forage plants has been cancelled. 

 This article required that applications to import these classes of 

 seeds should be accompanied by a certificate from a competent 

 scientific authority of the country of origin certifying that the 

 seed was free from dodder. Article i of the Decree, however, 

 still remains in force, and prohibits the importation of the seed 

 of forage plants containing more than 50 grains of dodder per 

 kilogramme ( = 227 grains per pound). 



* See loiirnal, ]\.\nQ, 1905, p. 161, 



