1909.] 



Notes on Agriculture Abroad. 



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The agricultural section comprises crops, farm animals and their 

 products, buildings, machinery and implements, agriculture, silk produc- 

 tion, farm management and agricultural science, manufacture of agri- 

 cultural products. Exhibits may be sent from foreign countries, but 

 these are not eligible for prizes. Applications for information should 

 be made to the Managing Committee of the Territorial Exhibition, 

 Ekaterinoslav. A copy of the rules can be seen on application at the 

 office of the Board. 



Congress of Horticulture at Brussels. — An International Congress 

 of Horticulture will be held at Brussels in connection with the Exhibi- 

 tion of 1910, and will include seven sections, in each of which a variety 

 of subjects will be proposed for discussion. The Congress will occupy 

 four days, from April 30th to May 3rd, and a Flower Show will be 

 held in the Exhibition at the same time. The subscription to the Con- 

 gress will be five francs. Communications should be addressed to the 

 Secretariat General, 28 rue Sainte-Catherine, Brussels. 



Agencies for Sheep-Dips. — The Board of Trade Journal (October 14th, 

 1909) states that two firms of merchants in Montevideo are desirous of 

 obtaining the agencies of British manufac- 

 Uotes on turers of sheep-dips. Communications should 



Agriculture Abroad, be addressed to the British Consulate-General, 

 Montevideo. 



Probable Demand for Pedigree Cattle in Venezuela. — H.M. Minister 

 at Caracas reports that the Venezuelan Government has granted a con- 

 cession for the establishment of a chilled meat industry in Venezuela 

 for exportation, and states that with a view to the improvement of the 

 breed of cattle in that country special beasts will be brought from 

 England to cross with the native animals. — (Board of Trade Journal, 

 September 2nd, 1909.) 



Importation of Live Stock into Brazil. — In his Report on the Trad^ 

 of Brazil (F.O. Reports, Annual Series, No. 4,358), Mr. Cheetham, 

 Secretary of the Legation, observes that it is a matter of periodic dis- 

 cussion what breeds of cattle do best in Brazil. At present the breeders 

 of the Plate are in favour, principally with their Devons, which is due 

 not only to their freights being lower than the freights from Europe, 

 owing to the smaller distance, but to the fact that they have availed 

 themselves of the National Exhibition and other shows in different 

 localities. They assert, moreover, and have succeeded in persuading 

 the Brazilians, that their animals alone are capable of resisting red- 

 water, which is the principal ailment against which Brazilian cattle 

 have to contend. There is no lack of stock for the rougher purposes, 

 though they are unevenly scattered, exportation going on in some parts 

 of Brazil and importation in others, but the animals are in need of 

 considerable improvement, as they are lacking in the qualities usually 

 demanded for dairy and show. This fact is recognised by Brazilian 

 experts, who are energetically devoting themselves to the subject, and 

 have already been the means of introducing many Swiss, Dutch, and 

 British animals for the improvement of the native ill-defined breeds. 



The importation of horses is small. Hitherto there has been an 



