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Notes on the Weather in May. 



[JUNE, 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 

 Wheat Growing in Hungary. — The report on the trade of Hungary 

 during 1908-9 by Mr. Esme Howard, British Consul-General at Buda- 

 pest (Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, No. 4429), states that 

 Hungary seems to be gradually passing out of the class of wheat 

 exporting countries into that of wheat importing ones. The harvest 

 of 1909 was bad, the amount of wheat harvested being less than it 

 has been for the last five years, while for the first time foreign wheat, 

 mostly Roumanian and Russian, had to be imported in large quantities 

 in order to keep the Hungarian flour mills at work. The greater part 

 of this came from Roumania and Russia, but orders have also been 

 placed in Argentina for wheat to be delivered in the course of the 

 spring of 1910. This state of things has caused considerable anxiety in 

 a country which was once one of the great wheat and flour exporting 

 countries of Europe. The agricultural industry, has, however, passed 

 through the ordeal satisfactorily, for the changing of crops, intensive 

 culture, the good prices for export cattle, in which a growing and 

 prosperous business is being carried on, have all helped to tide over 

 these bad years. 



Export of Fruit and Meat from Brazil. — The Acting Consul-General 

 at Rio de Janeiro states that the National Society of Agriculture is 

 taking active steps to promote the export of Brazilian fruit to Europe, 

 and to secure suitable cold-storage accommodation for fruit on various 

 lines of steamers. In addition, a decree has just been signed which 

 empowers the Ministry of Agriculture to establish a new branch to 

 -deal with the establishment of model cold-storage and slaughter houses, 

 and to take steps to furnish ships and trains with adequate and up-to- 

 date cold-storage accommodation for transport. Labaratories are to be 

 attached to the model slaughter houses which it is proposed to erect 

 in the States of Minas, S. Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and at suitable 

 places in the North and South of the Republic. It is also proposed to 

 grant awards, concessions, &c, to stimulate individual enterprise in 

 this connection. 



Paris Horse Show. — The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries are 

 informed that the annual show of native stallions and mares, promoted 

 by the French Ministry of Agriculture, will be held at Paris from 

 15th to 19th June. Only animals bred in France are eligible. 



International Congress of Apiculture. — The fourth International 

 Congress of Apiculture will be held at Brussels on September 25th and 

 26th next. The subscription for apicultural societies is fixed at twenty 

 francs, and for members at five francs. Communications should be 

 addressed to Monsieur Louis Genonceaux, Rue Gregoire-Bodart 8, Huy, 

 Liege. 



The subjects dealt with at the Congress will include both scientific 

 and practical matters relating to bee-keeping and allied industries. 



In the first week the general conditions were cold and very change- 

 able. Except in Scotland E. and England N.E. warmth was deficient 

 everywhere. Rainfall was "very heavy" in 

 Notes on the Weather England E. and "heavy" in the Midland 

 ill May. counties, England S.E. and N.W., and Scot- 



land W. 



