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Miscellaneous Notes. 



[APRIL, 



June 6th, to Tuesday, June nth. It will comprise all branches ot practical and 

 theoretical agriculture, especially live stock, dairy products and machinery. 



International Horse Show at the Hague. — An International Horse Show will be 

 held at the Hague from July 1st to 7th, 1907. There are about 40 classes open 

 for international ccmpetition. 



Dairying Exhibition at the Hague. — An International Agricultural Exhibition will 

 be held at the Hague from the 14th to 23rd September, 1907. The Dairying Section 

 will include butter, cheese and all kinds of preserved and sterilised milk ; machines, 

 instruments and accessories for all branches of the dairy industry ; scientific instru- 

 ments and exhibits ; technical and scientific manuals, publications, «Scc. ; systems of 

 book-keeping ; plans of cow-sheds and installations of machinery connected with the 

 hygenic production of milk and other allied subjects. A copy of the programme can 

 be seen at the offices of the board. Intending exhibitors should apply at once for 

 forms of application to the Executive Committee of the Exhibition, 42, Brutenhof, 

 the Hague. The fee is 10 francs for entries of butter and cheese in each class, and 

 1 franc per square meter of space occupied by other exhibits. 



Forestry Exhibition in Gloucestershire. — The Gloucestershire Agricultural Society 

 has arranged to hold a Forestry Exhibition on June 19th and 20th, 1907, in 

 connection with the Society's Show at Stroud. Classes are provided for (1) A 

 General Collection of Exhibits illustrative of Forestry, (2) for boards of different 

 woods cut from trees grown upon land owned by the Exhibitor, and (3) for 

 collections of portable articles made from home-grown timber. 



Leaflet 011 Black Currant Mite. — The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries desire to 

 announce that a new edition of their leaflet on the Black Currant Mite has been 

 published, in which information on the treatment of this pest with lime and sulphur 

 has been incorporated. Fruit-growers whose bushes have been attacked with the 

 mite are advised to experiment with this process. 



Recent Publications of the Board. — The following leaflets have been issued during 

 1907 :— No. 181, Cleansing of Watercourses ; No. 176, Poultry Fattening ; No. 190, 

 The Dogs' Act, 1906; No. 180, Dodder; No. 189, Insurance of Farming Stock 

 against Fire; No. 184, Red, White and Alsike Clover; No. 18, Fertilisers and 

 Feeding Stuffs' Regulations, 1906 ; No. 186, Large Larch Saw Fly ; No. 142 

 (Revised), Calf Rearing ; No. 105 (Welsh), Black Scab of Potatoes ; No. 29 

 (Revised), Swine Fever; No. 141 (Revised), Preparation of Honey for Market; 

 No. 154 (Welsh), Prevention and Cure of Foot-Rot in Sheep ; No. 1 (Revised), Black 

 Currant Gall Mite ; No. 125 (Revised), Hessian Fly. 



The second part of the Agricultural Statistics, 1906, has also been published 

 [Cd-3372. Price 5^.] and comprises returns of the produce of crops in Great Britain, 

 with summaries for the United Kingdom, and weather statistics. It i<? prefaced by a 

 report, which in discussing various features of the returns, refers to the yield of straw, 

 the date and duration of harvest, the weather of the year, the marketing of the wheat 

 crops and other subjects. Part I of this publication [Cd-3281. Price §</.] refers 

 to acreage and live stock. 



