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in the Journal of the Board of Agriculture for May, 1908, copies of 

 which may be obtained on application to the Board, price 4d., post free. 



The Report (Part I.) of the Intelligence Division of the Board 

 describes the work dealt with in the Commercial Control Branch during 

 . the year 1910. This Branch undertakes 



P enquiries and correspondence as to the adminis- 



Commercial tration of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 



Control Branch. lg75 t0 I9Q7 . comp i a i nts relating to adulteration 

 of articles of food affecting the interests of agriculture; the adminis- 

 tration of the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1906; prosecutions 

 under the Merchandise Marks Acts, 1887 to 1894, and Section 1 (8) of 

 the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Act, 1903 ; and complaints as 

 to rates and facilities for the carriage of agricultural produce by rail. 

 The appendix contains a Report by the Principal Chemist of the Govern- 

 ment Laboratories on the examination of samples of milk taken by an 

 inspector of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries in connection with 

 an enquiry into methods of sampling milk conducted during June and 

 July, 19 10. A summary of this Report was given in the Journal for 

 April, p. 30. Information as to the administration of the Fertilisers and 

 Feeding Stuffs Act is also given, including particulars for each county 

 in Great Britain of the arrangements made for sampling by the official 

 samplers, and the fees for analysis payable by the purchaser. 



Among the matters dealt with in the report (Cd. 5625, price 3d.) 

 of the Departmental Committee appointed by the Board of Education 

 . . _ on the Science and Geological Museums, is 



V VV+ 4 +ln tlie development °f tne agricultural section 



ExMblts at tne Qf the Science Museum at South Kensington. 

 Science Museum. The existing collection of agricultural imple- 

 ments and machinery, although containing some interesting examples, 

 is recognised as being very fragmentary, and it is in regard to 

 machinery that the Committee recommends the development of the 

 collection. The appendix to the report states that the object of the 

 collection should be to illustrate important inventions or interesting 

 developments, and to provide exhibits useful to students and instruc- 

 tive for the general public, without making a comprehensive 

 display of all the relations of agriculture, e.g. space might be 

 found in the proposed new museum for a few important implements 

 in use at the beginning of the seventeenth century and towards the 

 end of the eighteenth century, and there might be as complete a set 

 as possible of models of the chief implements and machines in use 

 at the beginning of the twentieth century. Visitors would then be 

 impressed with the great changes that have taken place in three 

 centuries, even in the simple implements employed in husbandry. 

 Machines quoted as examples are ploughs, harrows, grubbers, culti- 

 vators, rollers, drills, artificial manure distributors, steam cultivating 

 machinery, harvesting machinery, threshing machines, dairy imple- 

 ments and machines, and milling machinery. 



