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Miscellaneous Notes. 



[march, 



ment is now prepared to send out bacteriologically pure cultures 

 in small tubes hermetically sealed. 



Lagos Agricultural Show. — An Agricultural Show will be 

 held in Lagos, West Africa, in November, 1906, under the 

 auspices of the Lagos Government. 



A leading feature of the show will be the sections for imple- 

 ments and machinery suitable for either the cultivation of 

 tropical produce or for its preparation for the European markets, 

 and for local consumption. 



Application should be made to the Colonial Secretary, Lagos, 

 or to the Commercial Intelligence Officer for Lagos and 

 Southern Nigeria, care of the Crown Agents for the Colonies, 

 Whitehall Gardens, London, S.W. 



Exhibition at Bucharest. — With reference to the note as to 

 this Exhibition in the Journal for January last (p. 632), the 

 British Consul- General is now informed that the concession for 

 the International Pavilion for Foreign Exhibits has been given to 

 Monsieur Erlich, Poste Restante, Brussels, and that intending 

 exhibitors should address themselves to him for conditions, &c. 



H or se-B reeding in Japan. — According to the Yokohama 

 Chamber of Commerce Monthly Report, the Japanese Govern- 

 ment contemplates establishing a Remount Bureau, and detailed 

 plans have been drawn up, the gist of which is that horse-breeding 

 is to be modelled after that obtaining in certain foreign countries. 

 Seventeen years is reckoned as the period required within which 

 to effect the desired change, and it will require a sum of 

 20,000,000 yen (about ,£2,040,000). It is intended to have 

 one million and a-half horses throughout the country at the end 

 of the prescribed period, every one of which will be from foreign 

 stock, especially from Austro- Hungarian breeds. Every year 

 a certain number of stallions are to be imported for the purpose, 

 and the number of breeding stations increased in proportion. 



Agricultural Exhibition at Rostov-on-Don* — The Board have 

 received from the Foreign Office a memorandum from Consul 

 Medhurst, in which he states that the Rostov-on-Don Agricul- 

 tural Exhibition was started in 1896. Though originally 

 intended to be exclusively a live stock exhibition, it was decided 



* A note as to British breeding stock exhibited at the Kharkov Exhibition ap- 

 peared in this Journal, August, 1904, p. 292. 



