22o Agricultural Exhibitions Abroad. [june, 



has been selected at Ford, and this has been fenced. A part 

 of it has been ploughed, manured, and trenched, and by the 

 end of this season about 400,000 conifer seedlings will have 

 been planted in it and several seed-beds sown. 



A plan of planting operations for the next twelve years has 

 been drawn up, under which not less than 150 acres per 

 annum will be planted. The site for next season's planting 

 has been examined with regard to the species of conifer most 

 suited to the varying conditions of soil, moisture, exposure, 

 &c. Clearing of valueless scrub necessary on parts of this 

 area is almost completed. Drains have been cut through the 

 swamps, and the draining of part of the adjoining 150 acres 

 is in progress. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have made an Order, dated 

 May 12th, 1909, restricting the importation of wolves, jackals, foxes, wild 

 dogs, and other animals of the canine tribe 

 Importation of (except the domestic dog). The Order does not 

 Canine Animals affect the restrictions on the importation of 

 Order of 1909. domestic dogs. 



Under this Order an imported canine 

 animal, that is to say, a canine animal which is brought to Great Britain 

 from any other country, except Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the 

 Isle of Man, is not to be landed in Great Britain unless its landing is 

 authorised by a licence of the Board previously obtained, and when landed 

 it is to be detained or otherwise dealt with in accordance with such con- 

 ditions as may be inserted in any licence authorising its landing. 



The Order provides penalties for unlawful landing, and extends to 

 canine animals certain Sections of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894. 



In reference to the note which appeared in this Journal in March, 

 1909, p. 929, notifying the prohibition of importation into Natal of 

 potatoes attacked by certain diseases, the Board 

 Importation of have been informed, through the Colonial 

 Potatoes into 'Natal. Office, that the disease referred to as " White 

 Rot " corresponds scientifically to Nectria 

 solani; "Scab" includes Oospora scabies and So\rosporium scabies; 

 " Black Rot " is Chrysophlyctis endobiotica (Black Scab or Wart 

 Disease); " Potato tuber moth " is Gelechia operculella (formerly known 

 as Lita solanella); and " Gall Worm" refers to the attack of Nema- 

 todes. 



Agricultural Exhibition at Buenos Ayr es.— The Board of Agriculture 

 and Fisheries have been informed, through the Board of Trade, that an 

 International Agricultural Exhibition will be 

 Agricultural Exhibi- held in Buenos Ayres under the direction of the 

 tions, &C, Abroad. " Sociedad Rural," from June 3rd to July 31st, 

 19 10, on the occasion of the hundredth anni- 

 versary of the Independence of the Argentine Republic. 



