694 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



[FEB, 



of a telephonic service would be attended with special advantage 

 to fruit-growers. 



The Board are informed that the business which has hitherto 

 been transacted by the Advisory Business Department of the 



Agricultural Organisation Society for the 

 C^O^peratfve su PPly °f tne agricultural requirements of 

 Federation. tne affiliated societies in England and 



Wales has now been taken over by the 

 Agricultural Co-operative Federation, which has been registered 

 under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act. All corre- 

 spondence with manufacturers, merchants and others for the 

 purchase of agricultural requirements will henceforth be done in 

 the name of the Agricultural Co-operative Federation, and not 

 by the Advisory Business Department of the Agricultural 

 Organisation Society, as heretofore. - 



It is proposed that this central body shall act as a commission 

 agent on behalf of any particular society. The preliminary 

 capital will be raised by requiring every society which takes 

 advantage of the facilities offered by this central body to take 

 shares in proportion to its annual turnover; thus one share of 

 £i for every ^500 worth of purchases made up to ten shares, 

 one share for every ,£1,000 worth of purchases from ten to 

 twenty shares, &c. The maximum number of shares held by 

 any one society is not to exceed 100. All profits, after all 

 expenses have been paid, are to be distributed as bonuses 

 proportionally to the purchases. 



Cultivation of Macaroni Wheat in the United States. — With 



reference to previous notes* which have appeared in this 



Journal on the subject of " durum," or 



Miscellaneous macaroni wheat, it is stated in the annual 

 Notes 



report of the United States Secretary of 

 Agriculture that in 1905 the probable production of this grade 

 of wheat was 20,000,000 bushels. During October it is reported 

 that about 6,000,000 bushels were shipped to Europe to Mediter- 

 ranean ports. It will be seen from this that the cultivation of 



* Journal, July, 1904, p. 208, and Dec, 1904, p. 543. ' - 



