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clinical examination and test with mallein ; for sheep and goats eight 

 days. During the quarantine, diagnosis with tuberculin and mallein 

 is to be carried out in the case of cattle and horses. No animal will 

 be permitted to enter the country which for any reason is suspected to 

 be diseased. Animals infected with contagious and parasitic diseases 

 will be treated in accordance with the Sanitary Police Regulations, or, 

 should their owners so desire, be re-shipped for a foreign destination 

 with the necessary precautions. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Production of Nitrate of Lime in Norway. — In the Report 

 for 1908 on the Trade of Norway (F. O. Re-ports, Annual Series, 

 No. 4,278), it is stated that an amount 

 Notes from of ^1,220,000 has been expended on the 



Foreign and Colonial works for the production of nitrate of 

 Office Reports. nme at Notodden and Svaelgfos and 

 the power stations under construction at 

 Rjukan and Vamma. When all the works are completed at the end 

 of the year 19 10 an amount of ^3,000,000 will have been spent. When 

 the Rjukan Fall works are fully completed, they and the Notodden 

 works combined will represent 240,000 horse-power, and by the autumn 

 of 19 10 it is calculated that the production will have reached 80,000 

 tons. 



Cattle Raising in Mexico. — The Report for 1908 on the Consular 

 District of Vera Cruz (F. O. Reports, Annual Series, No. 4,258) refers 

 to the favourable prospects for the cattle-breeding industry in this State. 

 One breeder in southern Vera Cruz has built up a very profitable 

 business in breeding Devon bulls for sale to native stockmen. By 

 careful and judicious crossing he has developed a Mexican Devon, a 

 little smaller than the imported, but retaining all its good qualities of 

 rapid growth and early maturity. 



A good deal of information on agricultural prospects and conditions in 

 Mexico is given in F. O. Report, No. 4,287. 



Exhibition of Agricultural Machinery at Cape Town. — H.M. Trade 

 Commissioner for South Africa (Mr. R. Sothern Holland) reports that 

 it has been decided to hold a South African 

 Agricultural exhibition at Cape Town, to which there is 



Exhibitions and io be added an international show of agricul- 

 Congresses Abroad. tural implements and machinery. (Board of 



Trade Journal, July Sth, 1909.) 

 International Exhibition at Roubaix. — The British Vice-Consul at 

 Croix (Mr. A. Faulkner) reports that it is proposed to hold an inter- 

 national exhibition at Roubaix (Nord) during the summer of 191 1. The 

 exhibition, which is being organised, under the auspices and with the 

 authority of the French Government, by the Town and the Chamber 

 of Commerce of Roubaix, is to be as comprehensive in character as 

 possible. (Board of Trade Journal, July Sth, 1909.) 



Agricultural Exhibition at Lahore. — The Commercial Intelligence 

 Branch of the Board of Trade have received from the Director-Genera! 



