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Notes on Agriculture Abroad. 



[Jan., 



for the purpose of being sold for food and not for seeding. (Board of 

 Trade Journal, November 2nd, 191 1.) 



Importation of Hides and Skins into Roumania. — The Moniteur Com- 

 mercial Roumain of October 1st, contains regulations prohibiting abso- 

 lutely the importation into Roumania of unprepared hides and skins, 

 and requiring compliance with various provisions in the case of pre- 

 pared hides and skins. (Board of Trade Journal, November 9th, 191 1.) 



Opening for the Export of Tinned Butter. — The attention of butter- 

 makers in this country is drawn to the fact that opportunities 



may exist for the establishment of a small 

 Notes on trade in tinned butter in countries where dairy 



Agriculture Abroad, cattle are not usually kept or where butter 



rapidly becomes rancid owing to the climate. 

 In Greece, for instance, where the butter of the country is made 

 almost entirely from ewes' milk, small tins of butter containing from 

 J lb. to £ lb. can be obtained, and are sold at about 55. lod. a lb. The 

 Board have made inquiry through the Board of Trade as to whether 

 there is any special disadvantage or difficulty connected with the trade 

 in butter of this class in Greece which would account for the high 

 prices ruling there, but have not been able to discover any such dis- 

 advantage or difficulty. The import duty is about £2 us. 2d. per 

 cwt. 



Sale of Seeds in Canada. — The Seed Control Act (Canada) of 191 1 

 repeals the Acts of 1906 and 19 10 on this subject, which were sum- 

 marised in this Journal for January, 1906, and November, 1910. The 

 present Act prohibits the sale, for the purpose of seeding, of any seeds 

 of cereals, flax, grasses, clovers, or forage plants, except timothy, alsike, 

 red clover, and alfalfa unless they are free from any seeds of noxious 

 weeds, or unless every package, &c, containing such seeds, or a label 

 securely attached thereto, is plainly and indelibly marked with the full 

 name and address of the seller, with the name of the kinds of seed, 

 and with the common names of the noxious weeds the seeds of which 

 are present in the seed sold. 



In the case of the sale, for the purposes of seeding, of seeds of 

 timothy, red clover, alsike, or alfalfa, or any mixture containing these 

 seeds, the packages, &c, containing the seeds, or labels securely 

 attached thereto, must be plainly marked with the full name and 

 address of the seller, and the name of the kinds of seed, with a 

 designation of the grade of the seed, i.e., Extra No. 1 ; No. 1 ; No. 2 ; 

 or No. 3. The grade Extra No. 1 must mean that the seeds are pure 

 as to kind, clean, sound, plump, of good colour, free from the seeds of 

 any noxious weeds, and contain not more than thirty seeds of all 

 kinds of weeds, including other useless or harmful plants, per ounce 

 of the seed so marked. Grade No. 1 must mean that the seeds are 

 clean, sound, reasonably plump, of good colour, contain not more 

 than five noxious weed seeds per ounce of timothy, red clover, or 

 alfalfa, or ten of them per ounce of alsike seed, and not more than 

 one hundred seeds of all kinds of weeds per ounce of the seed so 

 marked. Grade No. 2 must mean that the seeds are reasonably clean, 

 sound, contain not more than twenty noxious weed seeds per ounce 



