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provided which can be tightly closed and the bundles of hides must be 

 undone and each hide suspended separately in such a manner that there 

 may be a free circulation of the sulphur fumes and that all parts of the 

 surface may be acted upon. Fresh or moist hides, whether salted or 

 not, must be disinfected with carbolic acid or bichloride of mercury. 



All hides of neat cattle, whether salted, sun-dried and arsenic-cured, 

 or fresh or moist, shipped from a section of the country in which 

 anthrax is prevalent must be disinfected by immersion for thirty minutes 

 in a 1 to 1,000 solution of bichloride of mercury, under the supervision 

 of a representative of the consul. 



Officers of the U.S. Customs are directed to treat hides of neat 

 cattle shipped to the United States without proper disinfection as pro- 

 hibited importations, and to refuse entry of such hides, including calf- 

 skins, hide cuttings and parings, or glue stock, except such as have 

 been sun-dried or arsenic-cured or lime-dried, after soaking for forty 

 days in a strong lime wash made by slaking quicklime in water and 

 containing sufficient lime to be of a creamy consistency; and except 

 abattoir hides, the product of Sweden, Norway, New Zealand, Australia 

 and Great Britain, and hides taken from American cattle killed in 

 lairages in Great Britain, as the disinfection of such hides in the United 

 States, or storage of the same in general order warehouse, will not be 

 permitted, as the passage of diseased hides through the country or 

 storage with other goods would tend to the dissemination of cattle 

 disease. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



The Exhibitions Branch of the Board of Trade state that a 

 communication has been received from the Commissioner appointed 

 by His Majesty's Government to represent 

 Agricultural Exhibition British interests at the forthcoming Inter- 



at Buenos Aires. national Agricultural Exhibition at Buenos 

 Aires, to the effect that a covered space of 

 50,000 square feet has been obtained as a site for a British Section. 



The Exhibition will be open from the 3rd June to the 31st July of 

 next year, and will include exhibits of all classes of livestock ; agricul- 

 tural products; seeds, plants, etc.; agricultural machinery; tools and 

 other implements. There will be no charge for space in the British 

 Section. 



With regard to the transport of exhibits, the shipping companies 

 comprising the International River Plate Conference have agreed to 

 carry back free of charge all unsold exhibits weighing less than three 

 tons which may have been shipped to the Exhibition by their steamers. 

 Such exhibits must be consigned from Buenos Aires to the original port 

 of shipment before the end of 19 10. A reduction of 50 per cent, will 

 be made on the return freight of packages weighing over three tons. 



The Official Programme of the Agricultural Exhibition, containing 

 full information as to the regulations and the classification of exhibits, 

 may be obtained on application to the Exhibitions Branch, Queen Anne's 

 Chambers, Westminster, S.W. 



Applications for space should have been forwarded to the same 



