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Miscellaneous Notes. 



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electric power for driving machinery for farming operations and other 

 purposes. Such experimental farms will no doubt be of great advantage 

 for improving agricultural education in the rural districts, as all possible 

 facilities are afforded to agriculturists for visiting the farms and obtain- 

 ing practical information on all agricultural matters. 



Agricultural Machinery in the Caucasus. — The principal articles 

 which find a ready sale in the Northern Caucasus are all kinds of 

 machinery, especially milling and agricultural 

 Demand for Agricul- machinery, and iron goods. Grass mowers, 



tural Machinery. horse rakes, reapers and self binders are im- 

 ported from the United States of America. 

 German threshers also are sold in the Northern Caucasus ; these all 

 come overland, the head depdt for such machines being at Rostov-on- 

 Don. — (Board of Trade Journal, April 26, 1910.) 



Agency for Poultry -Rearing Appliances. — H.M. Consul-General at 

 Marseilles (Mr. M. Gurney, M.V.O.) reports that a firm in that city are 

 desirous of obtaining agencies for British poultry-rearing appliances. 

 The firm are setting up a model poultry and poultry-rearing establish- 

 ment, which they propose to make a kind of permanent poultry exhibi- 

 tion, and where an incubator room will be open to the public. 



Communications from British makers interested should be addressed 

 to the British Consulate-General, Marseilles. — (Board of Trade Journal, 

 April 14, 1910.) 



Agricultural Machinery in Bulgaria.— H.M. Minister at Sofia has 

 informed the Board of Trade that competitive trials will be held, 

 between July 18th and 23rd next, at the Government stud farm near 

 Plevna, of steam threshers of 12 h.p. and over. The trials are to be 

 held under the auspices of the Ministry of Commerce and Agriculture 

 (Veterinary and Zootechnical Department), and machines of the type 

 of that most successful in the trials will be purchased by the Depart- 

 ment, who will also recommend them to other Government institutions 

 and to private landowners. All cost of transport and installation must 

 be borne by the competing firms. The threshers must be fitted with 

 chaff cutters and with elevators for hoisting sheaves and stacking 

 straw, and must burn straw, wood or coal. The prices of the machines 

 must be stated before the trials begin. 



H.M. Minister at Sofia reports the announcement in the local press 

 that an experimental station for the trial of agricultural machinery of 

 all kinds has been started at the model farm (" Obrastzov Chiftlik,") 

 near Rustchuk. The results of the trials will be communicated to all 

 persons interested, and advice will be given to cultivators in order to 

 assist them in obtaining improved types of machinery. 



In connection with the experimental station a museum is to be 

 opened, where agricultural machinery, models, plans, &c, are to be 

 on view. Firms are invited to send exhibits, plans, &c, of machinery 

 to the museum. Should any British firm wish to supply plans and 

 specifications of their manufactures, these should be drawn up in French 

 or German ; metric weights and measures should be used, and prices 

 stated in francs. It would be useless, adds H.M. Minister, for British 

 'firms to try to do business in Bulgaria unless they were prepared to give 



