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Plant Import Regulations. [march, 



merely consigns it in order that it may be made into butter on 

 his behalf, and that he should therefore be paid at the pre- 

 vailing price for the butter produced. In addition it is con- 

 sidered that this system enables the farmer to check his receipts 

 by the current price of butter, while the working of the factory 

 is kept up to a certain standard. The tables make a certain 

 allowance for " over-run," and if the management is sound 

 and the machinery satisfactory this allowance will leave a 

 small balance to the factory. This balance should be divided 

 among the farmers in proportion to the amount of butter-fat 

 supplied by each. 



The Agent-General for the Transvaa lhas been informed by 

 his Government that considerable delay frequently arises in 

 regard to the deliver}/ of plants, &c, 

 Plant Import Regula- exported to the Transvaal owing to the 

 tions. — Transvaal.* failure of the persons concerned to comply 

 with the regulations governing their 

 introduction into the colony, and especially to their neglect to 

 obtain a special permit from the Agricultm-al Department of 

 the Transvaal. 



The following is a summary of the regulations referred to, 

 which are framed under Section I of Ordinance 16 of 1904 for 

 preventing the introduction and spread of insect pests and 

 plant diseases from places beyond South Africa into the 

 Transvaal : — 



No plants may be introduced except by post or through 

 Beira, Lourenco Marques, Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth, 

 Mossel Bay and Cape Town. No live insect is to be introduced 

 except by special permission. 



The introduction of the following is prohibited : — 



(a) Any eucalyptus, acacia, or coniferous plant, or portion 

 thereof, except the seed. 



(b) Any coffee plant, or any portion thereof, with the excep- 

 tion of seed free from pulp. 



(c) Any stone fruit tree, or any living portion thereof, which 



* Previous notes as to plant import regulations have appeared in \\\\% Jourtial as 

 ollows : — Germany, September, 1903 ; New Zealand, August, 1904, and June, 1906 ; 

 Natal, November, 1906 ; Western Australia, June, 1906 ; Rhodesia, October, 1906 ; 

 and Cape Colony, Argentina, July, 1907. 



