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Miscellaneous Notes. 



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only fruit grown in the four northern counties will be allowed to 

 compete. 



Agricultural Exhibition in Chile. — The Board are informed that an 

 International Exhibition of Agriculture and Agricultural Machinery will 

 be held at Santiago, Chile, in November next. 



Agricultural Show at Lagos. — The Southern Nigeria Government 

 Gazette of February 23rd announces that the Lagos Agricultural Show 

 will be held on December 8th, 9th, and 10th next. It is hoped that a 

 leading feature of the show will be the section for implements and 

 machinery suitable for the cultivation of tropical produce and for its 

 preparation for export and for local consumption. 



Copies of the preliminary announcement regarding the show may 

 be obtained by British firms on application to the Commercial Intelli- 

 gence Branch of the Board of Trade, 73 Basinghall Street, London, 

 E.C. — (Board of Trade Journal, April 7, 1910.) 



Decrease in the Agricultural Exports from the United States. — Mr. 

 Consul-General Bennett, in his Report to the Foreign Office on the 

 Trade of New York (Annual Series, No. 4408), 

 Notes on Agriculture re f ers to the shrinkage of the wheat supplies 

 Abroad. sent ^ rom tne United States to the United 



Kingdom, and remarks that the production of 

 wheat in the United States might indeed be very largely increased by 

 more scientific farming, it might perhaps even be doubled, but it is 

 doubtful whether such an increase in land under wheat would pay the 

 farmer who has other more profitable crops within reach. At the 

 present time the home demand can be met in all directions, but the 

 margin is not nearly so large as it was, and the day is not far distant 

 when the United States will not export a grain of wheat, when the 

 whole will be required for home consumption and when, even, it may 

 be necessary to import wheat for the use of the people. 



The United States therefore cannot be relied upon in future as in 

 the past to satisfy the British demand for bread. 



As regards the supply of other food products, such as beef, fresh 

 and chilled, beef products and dairy products, and the amount available 

 for exportation, exact details are more difficult to procure. 



It has been stated, however, again and again, that the demand is 

 gaining on the supply, and that as the local demand is increasing year 

 by year with the increase of population, the quantity available for 

 export must diminish in the same manner as the wheat supply has been 

 affected. 



Danish Co-operative Societies. —According to the Smor-Tidendc of 

 April 15th, 19 10, the number of co-operative dairies in Denmark in the 

 year 1909 was 11 16, and the number of co-operative bacon factories 35. 

 There were at the same time 13 10 cattle-breeding societies, with 1550 

 bulls ; 260 horse-breeding societies, with 310 stallions ; and 250 pig-rearing 

 societies, with 326 boars. All of these breeding societies receive subven- 

 tions from the State, which is also the case with the milk-testing asso- 

 ciations, the number of which is 508. 



Horse and Cattle Rearing in Japan. — The Canadian Trade Commis- 

 sioner at Yokohama (Mr. G. A. Harris) states, in a recent report to 

 his Government, that the Japanese Government directly encourage 



