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Currant Bud Mite and Hazel Bud Mite, [feb., 



If the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries take any steps 

 detrimental to the business of this firm, we shall at once 

 take steps to protect ourselves. 



Yours faithfully, 



The Cumberland Ham Co. 



The Secretary, 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. 



The Board have no reason to suppose that the information 

 furnished to them by the Company is in any way incorrect, 

 but they are not satisfied that in this case customers, by 

 observing the price at which the hams were offered, would be 

 prevented from arriving at an erroneous conclusion as to the 

 origin of the hams. 



The name " Cumberland Ham Co." is suggestive either of a 

 Ham Company connected with Cumberland, or of a Company 

 connected with Cumberland hams, and any person having no 

 special knowledge of ham prices might not unreasonably think 

 that the Company who inserted this advertisement was a 

 Company dealing only in Cumberland hams. 



Other instances of trade names which might in a similar 

 way lead to misconception have been brought to the notice of 

 the Board, and as the Board are advised that there is nothing 

 illegal in the adoption of these names, they would impress 

 upon persons who desire to purchase home produce that they 

 should attach no importance to any indication of origin 

 afforded by a trade name, but should specifically order home 

 produce. 



The Eriophyidce are a family of mites, the members of which 



are feeders on plants. Some of them live on the surface of the 



„ , attacked tissue, some live in buds, 



The Currant Bud . . , lx £ A , 



„ir-x j xi , which may swell as a result of their 



Mite and the Hazel a f1 



Bud Mite presence, some cause a curling of the 



leaf, and some give rise to projecting galls 



or malformations on leaves and more rarely on twigs. 



The Black Currant Bud Mite (Eriophyes rihis) and the 



Hazel Bud Mite [Eriophyes avellance) live in each case in the 



buds of the respective plant, and as a result of their presence 



infested buds swell greatly. 



