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Export of Live Stock to Brazil. 



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thoroughly suitable for hops, to substitute some more 

 reliable crops for hop-growing, which involves a consider- 

 able outlay of money and labour. Special emphasis is laid 

 on the recommendation that under no circumstances should 

 new hop-gardens be laid out. The district authorities and 

 agricultural teachers are instructed to influence farmers in 

 this direction. 



A meeting of the Committee appointed to consider the state 

 of the industry was held in March under the presidency of the 

 Bavarian Home Secretary, and representatives of the 

 growers, merchants, and brewers were present. According 

 to a further dispatch from Mr. Ehrenbacher, no very definite 

 result was attained, but the view was generally expressed 

 that the position of the Bavarian hop-grower could be 

 improved by confining hop-growing strictly to suitable dis- 

 tricts and soils, by grubbing hops on poor soil, by the selec- 

 tion of plants, and by careful picking, drying, sorting, and 

 packing. The enactment of regulations providing for 

 certificates of origin was not considered necessary. 



The Government will encourage the establishment of 

 experimental grounds and of exhibitions, and will consider 

 the question of assisting the industry either by a protective 

 tariff or other ways. 



The development of agriculture in Brazil is being actively 

 encouraged at the present time by the Central and Provin- 

 cial Governments, and seems to offer, 

 Opening for Export both as regards live stock and machin- 

 of Live Stock and ery, an opening for the export of 

 Machinery to Brazil. British produce. The demand for 

 breeding stock has been dealt with in 

 previous numbers of this Journal (August, 1907, p. 303; 

 March, 1908, p. 738; April, 1908, p. 50, and January, 1909, 

 p. 755) j and the Board have now received, through the 

 Foreign Office, a despatch from the Acting Consul-General 

 at Rio de Janeiro (Mr. V. H. C. Bosanquet), giving some 

 particulars as to the model farms which have been estab- 

 lished in the province of Minas Geraes for instruction in 

 practical agriculture and stock-raising. This gives an indi- 



