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Importation Regulations. [June, 



ticable to meet the requirements of any particular applicants, the Board 

 will notify the Council accordingly, and suggest that their names should 

 be struck off the list. 



The Board feel sure that your Council will recognise the need of 

 dealing without further delay with the outstanding applications, some 

 of which were made over three years ago, and that they will be ready 

 to give the Board their assistance and co-operation in the matter. 



The Board will be glad to receive the information asked for not later 

 than the end of this month. 



I am, &c, 



T. H. Elliott, 



Secretary. 



The Agricultural Statistics (Part II.) for 1910 (Cd. 5604, price '5^.) 

 contains the final returns of the produce of crops in Great Britain, with 

 summaries for the United Kingdom. Sum- 

 Returns as to the maries of these returns have previously ap- 

 Produce of Crops in peared in the Journal, and were issued in the 

 Great Britain form of preliminary statements as the particu- 



lars became available. The tables in this pub- 

 lication are preceded by a Report by Mr. R. H. Rew, in which various 

 features of the returns are discussed. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Importation of Plants and Seeds into Chile. — The Chilian Diario 

 Oficial for March 13th contains a Decree providing that plants, fruit 

 and forest trees, shrubs, tubers, bulbs, roots, 

 mpor ation anc j y - ne cu ttings shall be examined prior to 



Regulations. clearance through the Customs, and, if found 



diseased, shall be disinfected or otherwise treated. The importation of 

 vine plants with the roots attached is prohibited. Seeds of fruit or 

 forest trees, of decorative and forage plants, and especially of legu- 

 minous plants, such as beans, lentils, carobs, lucerne, and clover, shall 

 be subject to similar inspection. . It is further provided that the im- 

 portation of the foregoing articles shall in future only be permitted 

 through the Customs houses of Valparaiso and Talcahuano. {Board 

 of Trade Journal, May 4th, 191 1.) 



Importation of Plants into Algeria. — A Decree of April 21st last, pub- 

 lished in the Journal Officiel of May 1st, prohibits the importation into 

 Algeria of plants of a fibrous nature (other than vines and resinous 

 plants), palms, rooted or otherwise, and the fruit of orange trees, except 

 through the ports of Algiers, Oran, and Bone, and the postal station of 

 Ghardimaou. The plants will be disinfected on arrival. 



Importation of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Goats, and Swine into France. 

 — The existing French regulations regarding live stock from Great 

 Britain require a certificate of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 

 as to the freedom from disease of the district from which the animals 

 proceed. Intending exporters should therefore send to the Board : — 



1. A certificate, signed by a duly qualified Veterinary Surgeon, to 

 the effect that the animal to be exported has been examined, and is 

 apparently free from the following diseases : — 



In the case of Horses. — Glanders, Farcy, and Dourine. 



