1909.] 



Sale of Seeds in France. 



325 



In accordance with recent legislation (Laws of 3rd and 26th December, 

 1908 *), the following articles may be imported into the Republic of 

 Panama from this country without payment 

 Free Import of of duty r Pedigree animals for breeding pur- 

 Agricultural Produce poses, seeds, cuttings, living plants, guano, 

 into the an d material intended for the purpose of irri- 



Panama Republic. gation or agriculture. In order to obtain the 

 exemption, a written application must be 

 made, containing a sworn statement indicating the kind and quantity 

 of the articles proposed to be imported, the country of origin, value 

 and purpose for which they are intended, with an undertaking that 

 they will not be used for any other purpose. Packages will be opened 

 for examination by the Customs. Letters should be addressed to the 

 Secretary to the Finance Department of the Republic as regards imports 

 through the ports of Panama and Colon, and as regards the port of 

 Bocas del Toro to the Governor of that province. 



The " Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette " of April 30th 

 publishes a notice to the effect that, in view of the near approach of 

 East African Coast fever, and the desirability 



Sale of Shee and °^ encoura £* n £ tne use °f dips as ^ ar as P os ~ 

 P +4-1 TV * sible, the Cape Government have decided that 



p p 7 s m a11 Sheep and Cattle dipS Sha11 bC exem P ted 



pe OJ - on y* from the licence and stamp duty applicable to 



patent or proprietary medicines until further 



notice, irrespective of the claims made in regard to the remedial, curative 



or preventive qualities of such dips. 



M. E. Schribaux, Director of the Seed Control Station in Paris, 

 has published (Journal d 1 Agriculture Pratique, February nth, 1909) a 

 statement dealing with the law as to seeds 

 Sale of Seeds in containing dodder in France. He calls atten- 

 France. tion to the fact that certain seed merchants 



claim that in commerce the term decuscute 

 (freed from dodder) applied to leguminous seeds means simply that they 

 have passed through a machine for separating dodder. The Service de 

 la repression des Fraudes, however, has always refused to admit this 

 interpretation, as likely to deceive the purchaser. The Service des 

 Fraudes recognises only samples which are decuscutes and non decus- 

 cutis, the former being not only samples sold as free from dodder, but 

 also those which are sold without any definite statement as to the 

 presence or absence of the parasite. 



The machinery now in use allows of the complete elimination of 

 small dodder, and also of the large dodder which infests lucerne. In 

 order, however, to allow a margin for error, the Service des Fraudes 

 is prepared to allow, in seed offered for sale, a maximum of 10 grains 

 of dodder per kilogram (2*2 lb.) in red clover, lucerne, Medicago lupulina, 

 Anthyllis vulneraria, and crimson clover (trifolium) ; and 20 grains per 



* Bulletin Menstiel, France, April, 1909. 



