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Holland (498 cwt.) participated in the trade, and small lots 

 were also received from Belgium, Germany, and Denmark, 

 as well as 113 cwt. from Argentina. The quality of the 

 imports, so far as can be judged by the declared value, varies 

 a good deal, cream from France being returned at 84s. per 

 cwt., from Norway at 68s., and from Holland at 57s. per cwt. 



It will be seen from the table given above that there was a 

 considerable expansion in the trade during the past year. 

 All the exporting countries shared in this to some extent, but 

 the main increase came from France, which added to her 

 exports by just over 2,000 cwt. 



Preserved Milk (other than Separated or Condensed). — 

 The imports of this class were about the same in 1908 as in 

 1907, viz., 4,477 cwt. as against 4,258 cwt. Holland, 

 Norway, and Belgium are the three countries mainly con- 

 cerned, but in 1908 three-fourths of the total receipts came 

 from Holland alone. Germany, France, Italy, and Russia 

 also sent small quantities. The average value was 25s. per 

 cwt. 



Separated Milk (other than Condensed). — The importation 

 of milk of this type was confined to France, which sent 

 3,729 cw r t. valued at £806, as compared with 2,717 cwt. 

 valued at £620 in 1907. As in the case of fresh milk, the 

 imports chiefly took place in the first three months of the 

 year. 



The Ninth Report of the Woburn Experimental Fruit 

 Farm by the Duke of Bedford, K.G., and Mr. Spencer U. 



Pickering, deals with the methods of 

 Planting of Fruit planting which have now for a number 

 Trees. of years been the subject of investiga- 



tion at Woburn. It is pointed out that 

 the question whether the accepted methods of planting were 

 really the best was first raised by the circumstance that a 

 plot of apple trees, which was planted in violation of the 

 accepted canons of "good practice," in order to obtain some 

 measure of the importance of careful planting and to afford 

 an object-lesson of the evils of bad planting, did rather better 

 than other plots properly planted. In consequence of this the 

 matter was further investigated, and the present Report gives 



