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such a sum as the Board may approve as representing the 

 proportion of the general expenditure of the society which is 

 applicable to work for which a grant can be made by the 

 Board under the Act. 



(8) The representatives of the Board on the committee of 

 management shall be given every facility for examining the 

 accounts of the society as well as the reports, diaries, and 

 expenses sheets of the organisers, and the accounts shall be 

 audited by a professional auditor to be approved by the Board. 



The Canada Gazette for 30th May last contains an Order in 

 Council, dated 21st May, 1908, which prescribes, with effect 

 from 1st July, 1908, certain amended 

 Importation of regulations respecting the free entry of 

 Live Stock into horses, cattle, sheep, goats, asses, swine 

 Canada. and dogs for the improvement of stock 



into the Dominion of Canada. 

 These regulations, which revoke those of 8th November, 1887, 

 provide that no animal imported, for the improvement of stock 

 shall be admitted free of duty unless the importer is domiciled in 

 Canada or is a British subject and furnishes a certificate of the 

 record and pedigree in a list of registers designated from time to 

 time by the Minister of Customs, showing that the animal is pure 

 bred and has been admitted to full registry in a book of record 

 established for that breed. An affidavit by the owner, agent or 

 importer that such animal is the identical animal described in the 

 said certificate of record must be presented. 



In case such certificate is not at hand at the time of the arrival 

 of the animals, the entry for duty may be accepted subject to the 

 refund of the duty upon production of the requisite certificates 

 and proofs in due form satisfactory to the Collector of Customs 

 within one year from the time of entry. 



The Lancashire Education Committee has recently appointed 

 an expert for the purpose of testing and weighing milk, the 

 object being to demonstrate a method 

 Milk Tests in whereby farmers can eliminate from 

 Lancashire. dairy herds those animals which produce 

 milk of an inferior quality, and also those 

 which produce it in insufficient quantity. 



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