1912.] 



Importation Regulations. 



867 



No. 205. — The Apple Sawfly. 



No. 226. — Broom-Rape. — An improved illustration is given. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries desire to make public the 

 results of the Service Seasons of the thoroughbred stallions to which 

 King's Premiums were awarded by the Board 

 Results of Service in March last> The total num ber of mares 

 Seasons of served by the fifty stallions was 3,245, an 



Thoroughbred average of 65 mares a stallion. The average 

 Stallions awarded payment by the Board to the owner of a 

 King's Premiums. King's Premium Stallion was £177, and the 

 maximum payment ^224. In addition, the stallion owner is entitled 

 to receive from mare Owners £2 for each mare served, and will also 

 receive from the Board 125. 6d. for each foal dropped. The total earn- 

 ings of a King's Premium Stallion for an average season will amount 

 approximately to ^300, and for an exceptionally good season to £410. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 

 Importation of Animals, Fodder, and Some Animal Products into 

 Australia. — The importation of animals, &c, into the Commonwealth 

 of Australia is governed by the Quarantine 

 Importation Act of 1908. Provisional regulations under 



Regulations. tne Act nave been recently issued (Statutory 



Rules, 191 1, No. 121). The following is a 

 summary of the provisions as far as animals imported from the United 

 Kingdom are concerned. 



Not less than seven days' notice of the arrival of any animal must be 

 given by the importer to the Chief Quarantine Officer of the State. 



The following declarations, &c, must be forwarded with the animals 

 by the owner or consignor of any imported animals, whether horses, 

 asses, mules, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, or dogs, and must be 

 delivered to the Chief Quarantine Officer prior to the landing of the 

 animals : — 



(1) A declaration from the owner certifying — 



(a) That the animal has been free from disease during the six 

 months next preceding shipment, and, in the case of dogs, that 

 the animal has been located in the country during these six months. 



(b) That it has not been in contact with any animal suffering 

 from disease during the six months next preceding shipment. 



(c) In the case of any horse, ass, or mule, that it has not, 

 except as required under (2), been tested with mallein during the 

 thirty days next preceding shipment; in the case of cattle that 

 it has not, except as required under (2), been tested with tuberculin 

 during the two months next preceding shipment; in the case of 

 any sheep or goat that it has been dipped by thorough immersion 

 in an effective scab-destroying preparation within the fourteen days 

 next preceding shipment (the exact nature of the dipping prepara- 

 tion used must be stated in the declaration). 



(2) A certificate by a qualified veterinary surgeon as to a mallein 

 test in the case of any horse, ass, or mule, or a tuberculin test in the 



