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use. Medals were awarded to German firms for these ploughs, as well 

 as for threshing-machines and agricultural locomobiles. 



Opening for Agricultural Machinery in Western Canada. — H.M. Trade 

 Commissioner for Canada (Mr. R. Grigg) reports that the agent in 

 Vancouver of a farmers' association of Western Canada desires to get 

 into touch with British manufacturers of the following agricultural 

 machinery and implements, viz. : — Self-binders, ploughs, farming trac- 

 tion engines, harrows, binder twine, butter-making machinery, wire 

 fencing, windmills, farm waggons, hoes, drills, horse rakes, mowers 

 and reapers, drag rakes, packers. 



The name of the association may be obtained by British agricultural 

 machinery makers on application to the Commercial Intelligence Branch 

 of the Board of Trade, 73 Basinghall Street, London, E.C. For further 

 information, inquiry may be made of the Imperial Trade Correspondent, 

 Mr. P. G. Shallcross, c/o Messrs. Shallcross, Macaulay and Co., 144 

 Water Street, Vancouver. (Board of Trade Journal, June 8th, 191 1.) 



Exhibition at Rostov-on-Don. — H.M. Vice-Consul at Rostov-on-Don 



reports that the agricultural exhibition at that town will this year be 



. held from September 23rd to October 14th. 



Agricultural A horse show win be hdd from September 



Exhibitions Abroad. 2f;th to Qctober 3rd> and a cattle and poultry 



show from October 4th to October 14th. About .£1,200 will be dis- 

 tributed as money prizes during the exhibition. 



The weather conditions deteriorated throughout June, the month 

 commencing in general with very unusual warmth, very abundant 

 sunshine, and light rainfall, and ending with 

 Notes on the deficient warmth, scanty sunshine, and variable 



Weather in June. rainfall. 



During the first week (May 28th to June 

 3rd) the general condition was very fine and bright, but after the early 

 days of the week thunderstorms occurred in all parts of Great Britain. 

 Warmth was everywhere " very unusual," the mean values for the 

 week being in most cases higher than any recorded in the correspond- 

 ing week during the past thirty years. Rainfall was " light " or 

 "very light," except in England E., where it was "moderate." Sun- 

 shine was everywhere "very abundant." 



The general conditions continued dry and fine into the second 

 week. Warmth was again "unusual" or "very unusual," and rain- 

 [ fall was either "light " or "very light." Bright sunshine was above the 

 normal in all districts, the excess being large, except in Scotland N. 

 The third week witnessed a change in the weather, and by the end 

 ! of the week unsettled conditions extended over the entire country. Tem- 

 perature was "deficient" in all districts, and "very deficient" in Scot- 

 land E. Rainfall was deficient over the east of Great Britain, slightly 

 m excess of the average in England N.E., and rather more than the 

 normal amount in the western and south-western districts. Bright sun- 

 shine was either "moderate" or "abundant." 



The weather was very changeable throughout the fourth week, 

 but in the earlier half of the week most districts were favoured with 



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