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By a Decree of the Argentine Government, dated March 1st, 



1905, the pedigrees of imported animals must, in future, be 



produced at the time of their quarantine 



Importation of examination, together with a statement of 



Pedigree Stock Jl _ 



into Argentina. marks °i identification. I he Inspector oi 



Imports will register all the particulars 



furnished — name, sex, breed, date of birth, number and date 



of entry in the pedigree stock book — as well as the marks of 



identification, and when the sanitary requirements have been 



complied with, will return the pedigree to the owner, endorsed 



with its number in his offi:ial register, and a statement as to 



the acceptance or rejection of the animal. 



A summary of the general Argentine Regulations was given 



in this Journal for January, 1905 (Vol. XL, p. 615). 



The two largest Agricultural Societies on the Continent 



are the Societe Nationale d'Agriculture de France and the 



Deutsche Landwirtschaftliche Gesellschaft. 



Two Great The former claims to be the oldest agri- 

 Continental u , . . . , . , 



Agricultural cultural society in existence, since it has a 



Societies. continuous record of 150 years. The latter 



may be considered one of the largest, since 



it numbers over 14,000 members. Both these societies have 



not long ago held their annual meetings, and the reports* of 



the proceedings have been recently published. The methods 



of the two bodies differ in some degree, though the object 



of these reunions is alike in either case, namely, a general 



survey of the year's work. The record of the French society 



is set out in a report by their Permanent Secretary, M. Louis 



Passy, and is prefaced by a eulogy of Pasteur, his colleagues 



and successors, and an account of the many and great services 



they have rendered not only to French agriculture but to that 



of the whole world as well. The report recapitulates the many 



bulletins or communications that have been received from 



the members of the society during the year, among which the 



* Bulletin de la Soc. Nat. d'Agric, 1904, No. 11 ; Mitt, der Deutschen Land. 

 Gesellschaft, 18 Feb., 1905. 



