1905.] 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



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Prohibition of Export of Maize from Roumania. — The Board 



are informed through the Foreign Office that the prohibition on 



the exportation of maize from Roumania* 



Miscellaneous was removed on the 28th of November last. 

 Notes. 



The Roumanian Minister of Agriculture 

 has informed His Majesty's Minister at Bucharest that the maize 

 crop this year amounts to about sixty million bushels, so that* 

 the annual consumption in the country being about forty two 

 million bushels, there will remain a surplus of nearly eighteen 

 million bushels, which he considered to be sufficient. 



In regard to this year's wheat, the production is put at ninety- 

 eight million bushels, which is stated to be much beyond the 

 average. 



Inspection of Nurseries in Cape Colony. — With the object of 

 checking the dissemination of insect pests and plant diseases in 

 Cape Colony, an Act, dated June 3rd, 1905, has been promul- 

 gated, providing for the inspection and quarantine of nurseries. 

 Every nursery is to be inspected at least once a year, and the 

 inspector is to inform the nurseryman what pests and other 

 injurious insects and plant diseases he has observed and what 

 measures he recommends for their suppression and eradication. 

 In the case of what are called general nurseries, i.e., nurseries 

 selling plants outside the local boundaries, such parts as are 

 found to be infested with certain pests may be declared in 

 quarantine pending the application of remedial treatment. 



No trees, plants, or fruit are to be introduced into the Colony 

 until they have been properly inspected and declared free from 

 any pest. All infected trees, plants, or fruit may be destroyed. 

 A summary of the general regulations as to the importation of 

 plants into the Cape is given in this fournal, September, 1903, 

 and October, 1904. 



Wool Production in Uruguay. — His Majesty's Consul at 

 Monte Video (Mr. Kestell-Cornish) reports that there has been 

 a satisfactory increase in the output of wool in Uruguay in the 

 year 1904, the value of the exports in that year being .£2,221,450, 

 as compared with £"2,209,086 in 1903. As regards the season 

 1904-5 just ended, he says that during the period from 1st 

 October, 1904, to 15th July, 1905,66,000 bales were exported 



* Journal, August, 1904, p. 277, and October, 1905, p. 420. 



