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Orkney. 



A. Baikie, Hall of Sankerness, near Kirkwall. 

 J. Clouston, Groemshall, St. Mary's, Holm. 

 J. Garrioch, Tingwall, Rendall, Kirkwall. 

 J. Mackay, Stromness Hotel, Stromness. 

 J. Robertson, Tufta, Harray, Stromness. 

 Robert Scarth, Binsearth, by Finstown. 

 A. Skea, Aikerskaill, Deerness, Kirkwall. 

 J. Wishart, Westquoy, Orphir, Kirkwall. 



Secretary, Duncan J. Robertson, Clerk to the County Council, 

 Kirkwall. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have received information 

 that the summer stage of American Gooseberry Mildew (Sphce'rotheca 

 Mors nvce) was discovered in two Cambridge- 

 . shire gardens on May 8th. All gooseberry 



American Gooseberry growers are advise d to examine their bushes 

 Mildew. Warning. care fully, and should any sign of disease 

 be found to spray their bushes with 

 a solution of liver of sulphur (one pound to 32 gallons of water). A 

 leaflet describing the disease and giving directions for dealing with it 

 can be obtained from the Secretary, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 

 4 Whitehall Place, London, S.W., gratis and post free. Letters so 

 addressed need not be stamped. 



Growers are reminded that by Article 3 of the American Gooseberry 

 Mildew Order of 1909 they are required to report the presence of this 

 disease on their premises to the Board or the Clerk of the Local 

 Authority for the district, either directly or through an Inspector, and 

 that the failure to report is punishable by a fine. 



The Board have addressed the following Circular, dated May 22nd, 

 to County Councils and Councils of County Boroughs in England and 

 Wales, on the subject of the payment of corn- 

 Small Holdings Act. pensation for the termination of a tenancy of 

 Compensation for land under the Small Holdings Act, 1910 : — 

 Termination of ^ IR> — * am directed by the Board of Agri- 



Tenancy, culture and Fisheries to advert to their circular 



letter of the 15th August, 1910 (A.189/C)* as 

 to the procedure to be adopted in dealing with claims for compensation 

 under the above-named Act, and I am to say that the experience which 

 the Board have gained in investigating the claims which have been 

 made under section 2 of the Act has shown that considerable miscon- 

 ception exists as to the scope of the compensation payable under the 

 Act. The Board think it desirable, therefore, to issue some further 

 instructions with the object of securing greater uniformity in dealing 

 with claims. 



In view of the fact that any compensation paid by a Council under 

 an award or with the consent or approval of the Board and any 

 expenses which in tht opinion of the Board have been necessarily or 



* See Joztrnal, September, 19 10, p. 496. 



