io6 Live Stock Import Regulations. [may, 



ditions of this country it would not be possible to found a profit- 

 able industry on the employment of potatoes as a material for 

 distillation. 



Those interested in the subject of alcohol distillation from 

 potatoes will find some particulars of the German system, which 

 may be read with what has already appeared in this Journal, 

 in a Report of a visit to Germany by Sir Henry Primrose, 

 C.S.I., K.C.B., and Dr. Thorpe, C.B. A description is given of 

 an agricultural distillery, and it is observed that the production 

 of spirit in Germany is a State-aided enterprise, of which the 

 primary purpose is not so much the production of spirit on 

 economic lines as the encouragement of agriculture in the less 

 fertile provinces of the Empire which lie on its eastern frontiers, 

 and in which the conditions of soil and climate are so unfavour- 

 able that without some such encouragement the country would 

 be in serious danger of depopulation. The vast majority of the 

 agricultural distilleries are to be found in the eastern provinces 

 of Prussia and Saxony, where the soil is poor and the cost of 

 conveying agricultural produce to a remunerative market is 

 high. In normal years the return from the potatoes used does 

 not exceed 25s. per ton (exclusive presumably of bonuses), 

 and in many cases is less. The average is about 20s. per ton. 

 The yield of alcohol from a ton of potatoes may be taken at 

 about 25 gallons of pure alcohol, or about 44 proof gallons. 



The regulations affecting the importation of live stock into 



Germany are given annually in the Jahresbericht fiber die 



T . 0 , , Verbreitung von TierseucJien. A summary 

 Live Stock s .. / 



Import of the principal points affecting animals 



Regulations — imported from this country is given below. 

 Germany. ,p^ e importation of animals suffering 



from infectious or contagious disease is prohibited, and all 

 animals which are found on veterinary examination to be 

 affected with contagious disease, or which are suspected of 

 being so affected, and those which have been forwarded or 

 have been in contact with them will be refused admission. 



* Live stock import regulations have been published in this /ournal for the follow- 

 ing countries: — United States, June, 1903, and Oct., 1904; Argentina, Jan., 1905; 

 Cape Colony, Feb., 1905 ; Canada, March, 1905 ; and New South Wales, April, 1905. 



