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animals. Cattle are exported from the Islands to Lisbon and Madeira. Horses for 

 cabs are relatively dear, and Mr. Read believes that one or two of the proprietors of 

 the best carriage establishments would be glad to have some good English horses ; 

 the difficulty, however, is that they are ignorant of English, which deters them from 

 going to England, and that they know of no reliable and competent person to act as 

 interpreter and to assist them to purchase good serviceable animals at moderate 

 prices. 



Disinfection of Hides Imported into the United States. — The Board have received 

 through the Foreign Office a statement that the Treasury Department of the United 

 States have revoked the provisions as to the disinfection of hides contained in Circular 

 No. 48, of 1 8th July, 1907, given in this Journal for October last (p. 438). In accordance 

 with the provisions of Treasury Decision, No. 23,212, of 30th July, 1901, certificates 

 of disinfection will be required upon the entry of all hides of meat cattle, when not 

 dry-salted or arsenic cured. Dry hides which have been salted or arsenic cured, will 

 be considered as having been disinfected by the process of curing, and need not be 

 submitted to any further treatment. Dry hides which have not been salted or 

 arsenic cured, and fresh or moist hides are to be disinfected according to a method 

 prescribed. 



Officers of the U.S. Customs are directed to treat hides of meat cattle 

 shipped to the United States without proper disinfection as prohibited importations, 

 and to refuse entry of such hides, including calf-skins, hide cuttings or parings, and 

 glue stock, the product of meat cattle shipped from Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia 

 and South America, except hides, parings, cuttings and such glue stock which have 

 been dry-salted or arsenic cured or lime dried after soaking for forty days in a strong 

 solution of lime, and except abattoir hides, the product of Sweden, Norway, and Great 

 Britain, and hides taken from American cattle, killed in lairages in Great Britain, in 

 all cases where the invoices are not accompanied by the proper certificates of disinfec- 

 tion issued by the American Consular Officers in the district from which such hides 

 are imported, and the disinfection of such hides in the United States, or storage of 

 the same in general order warehouse, will not be permitted, as the passage of diseased 

 hides through the country or storage with other goods would tend to the dissemination 

 of cattle disease. 



Importation of English Cattle into Rhodesia. — The British South African 

 Company has recently imported into North-Eastern Rhodesia twenty-two 

 pure-bred bulls, viz., ten Polled Angus, seven Devons and three Shorthorns. 

 The animals all arrived in good condition, and their cost, including transport, 

 was a little over ^50 each. (Rhodesian Agricultural Journal, December, 1907.) 



Phosphates in the Marshall Islands. — An article published in the Deutsche 

 Kolonialzeitung reports a discovery of phosphates in Nauen, one of the Marshall 

 Islands. A company has been formed to work the deposits, the depth of 

 which, however, is, not yet ascertained. The output for 1908 is estimated 

 at 75,000 tons. {Board of Trade Journal, 26th March, 1908.) 



Frozen Lamb from Natal. — The Board of Trade Correspondent at Durban 

 (Mr. A. D. C. Agnew) reports that a small trial shipment of Natal reared frozen 

 lamb was recently sent to London. This is the first consignment of the kind 

 from Durban to England, and it is hoped that in course of time a considerable 

 trade may be done. A considerable number of sheep from Australia have 

 lately been imported at Durban for the Transvaal, a similar importation being 

 rr ade last year for the Orange River Colony. According to the latest returns, 

 there were 524,712 woolled sheep in Natal in possession of Europeans, 16,900 

 Persian sheep and 37,016 sheep available for slaughter. There were also 

 327 imported and 7,000 Colonial rams. The number of Kaffir sheep returned 

 was 50,000 owned by Europeans and 200,000 (estimated) by natives. {Board 

 of Trade Journal, 27th February, 1908.) 



Grading of Maize in South Africa, — Regulations have recently been made 



