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Testing of Seed Corn. 



from £3,000 to A,500, feeling that the results of the operations 

 of the banks justified this action. In making the loans to the 

 banks, the Board are in every case guided by the recom- 

 mendations of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society,, 

 whose officers make all the arrangements for their establish- 

 nent and inspect them periodically. 



The attention of the Board has been called to the low 

 germinating power of grain intended for ordinary seed pur- 

 poses in Aberdeenshire. In most cases a 

 Testing" germination of 50 per cent, has not been 

 Of Teed Corn. reached. It would therefore be well for 

 farmers to test their spring corn before 

 sowing it, in order that they may properly regulate the amount 

 of seed to be allowed per acre. 



An International Dairy Exhibition will be held at Brussels 

 on April 23rd and 24th next, under the auspices of the National 

 Dairy Society of Belgium. The exhibition 



Da i? r Brussels i0n wil1 include dail T P roducts in general, 

 machinery, apparatus, educational material 



&c. There will be no public trials of machinery, but special 



prizes will be awarded for pasteurising plant and for essays on 



various subjects relating to dairy economics. Applications to 



take part in the exhibition must be sent before April 1st, with 



a remittance of 10 francs as entrance fee, to M. Collard-Bovy, 



Secretaire-general de la Societe Nationale de Laiterie, Square 



Mane Louise 56, Brussels. 



