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If these figures may be regarded as a trustworthy guide — 

 and they may fairly be accepted for comparative purposes — 

 the shrinkage of gross returns in 1908 as compared with 1907 

 must have been very considerable. It would, of course, be 

 misleading to sum up the differences and present the total 

 as representing a loss in receipts. In the case of the hay 

 crop, for example, the proportion actually sold is compara- 

 tively small, and the difference in market value does not 

 necessarily reduce the return from that consumed on the 

 farm, which is dependent rather on the price of stock than 

 on the price of hay. But in the case of crops such as wheat 

 and potatoes, which are mainly sold, the drop in gross 

 returns is an approximate measure of the shrinkage in actual 

 receipts. It may not be precisely accurate to say, for 

 example, that the potato crop of 1908, although exceeding 

 that of 1907 by a million tons, was sold for nearly 2 J million 

 pounds less money, because the whole crop has for con- 

 venience of reckoning been valued in each year at the average 

 prices of one typical variety, viz., " Up-to-Dates." We are, 

 however, fairly justified in saying that the crop, although 

 32 per cent, larger than in 1907, was sold for 18 per cent, 

 less, and was therefore worth to the farmer only five-sixths 

 of the previous year's crop, notwithstanding the extra cost 

 of lifting and marketing the greater bulk. 



. Sweden. — A notice dated January 2nd, 1909, and published by 

 the Medical Authorities of Sweden, in accordance with the Royal 

 Ordinance of December 9th, 1898, states that 

 Live Stock Import the importation of cattle, sheep, goats, and 

 Regulations. other ruminants, swine, and animals of the 



equine species, may be effected at Gothenburg - , 

 Helsingborg, Hernosand, Landskrona, Lulea, Malmo, Stockholm, 

 Sundsvall, and Soderhamn. 



Canada. — In connection with the recent outbreak of foot- 

 and-mouth disease in the United States, it may be noted that a 

 Canadian Act of Parliament, entitled the Animal Contagious 

 Diseases Act, 1903, gives full power for controlling and dealing with 

 outbreaks of disease in that country, as well as for preventing , its 

 introduction. Section 14 provides that the Minister of Agriculture 

 may prohibit the importation or introduction into Canada of animals, 

 or of flesh, hides, hoofs, horns, or other parts of animals, or of hay, 

 straw, fodder, or other articles for the purpose of preventing the intro- 

 duction of disease. Other sections provide for action with a view 



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