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Miscellaneous Notes. 



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Nearly all these manifestations are shown in the articles on the Sawfly 

 which were written for the Journal of the Board of Agriculture by Dr. 

 MacDougall and Dr. Hewitt, and in Leaflet 186. 



The Board would be glad if all persons connected with the care of 

 larch plantations would search for the pest during the summer and 

 autumn of 1910, and would communicate to them immediately the 

 discovery by the presence of any of the above mentioned indications of 

 Sawfly attack. In order, however, to make any report of value the 

 following additional information should be sent : — 



1. The name of the wood or plantation with some indication of the 

 place where it is to be found. 



2. The approximate size of the wood. 



3. A description of the intensity of the attack according to the follow- 

 ing scale : — 



Intensity I. — (Worst). Some trees already dead ; others with crowns 

 very thin and practically defoliated in mid-summer. General appearance 

 of trees moribund. Leading shoots have been attacked. 



Intensity II. — No trees dead. Trees badly browned in mid-summer. 

 Few terminal shoots to lateral branches produced during current year, 

 dwarfed shoots thereby stimulated to growth with result that these 

 new shoots have been utilised for egg laying by the Sawfly. 



Intensity III. — No trees dead. Considerable numbers of the terminal 

 shoots of lateral branches have had eggs laid in them. Little or no 

 browning effect in mid-summer. 



Intensity I V. — No trees dead. Very few lateral shoots show signs 

 of attack. 



The Board are endeavouring to organise an experiment in controlling 

 the Sawfly and will be glad to hear from owners of attacked plantations 

 who are willing to assist. 



IMPORTATION REGULATIONS. 



Importation of Dogs into Jamaica. — Law No. 19 of 1909 includes 

 dogs among animals that are subject to examination and quarantine for 

 fourteen days on landing in Jamaica. The regulations were summarised 

 in this Journal, April, 1907, p. 33. 



Importation of Potatoes into Rhodesia. — In accordance with Regu- 

 lation No. 309 of 1909, potatoes imported into Southern Rhodesia from 

 outside South Africa must be accompanied by a certificate from the 

 consignor stating fully in what country and district they were grown, 

 and that wart disease or black scab (Chrysophlyctis endobiotica, Schilb.) 

 is not known to occur on the land on which the potatoes were grown. 

 Any consignment found on arrival to be infected with wart disease will be 

 destroyed; if it is infected with any other disease the diseased tubers 

 will be destroyed, and a charge of 6d. per bag made for sorting. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 

 Fruit Show and Congress at Hexham. — A fruit congress and fruit 

 show will be held at Hexham on October 2oth-22nd next, with the 

 object of encouraging fruit culture in the four 

 Agricultural northern counties. Lectures on fruit cultiva- 



Exhibitions ^ on ' i nsect P ests and their prevention, and 



other subjects relating to the cultivation of 

 fruit, will be delivered by various authorities. x\t the fruit exhibition 



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