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Miscellaneous Notes. 



[JULY, 



the Commissioners ask that County Councils will communicate with 

 them direct on the subject. 



Enfranchisement of Copyholds. — The Board desire me to call your 

 attention to the fact that Sections 95 to 98 (Copyhold Lands) of the 

 Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, are incorporated in the Small 

 Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, for the purpose of the purchase of 

 land by agreement as well as by compulsion, and the procedure of 

 those sections should be followed in all cases of the purchase of copy- 

 hold land, except where the purchaser is willing, at the expense of the 

 Council, to enfranchise the land before its conveyance, and the Council 

 think that course will save expense. 



The Board take this opportunity to point out that in letting land 

 for small holdings Councils are not restricted to letting on annual 

 tenancy. The Board are aware that in some cases Councils have 

 granted their tenants leases for terms of years and they would suggest 

 that your Council should consider whether this course could not, with 

 advantage, be adopted more frequently. In the case of suitable appli- 

 cants who express a wish to take land on lease the Board think that no 

 obstacle should be put in the way of their doing so. Cases may occur 

 in which Councils, in order to satisfy a particular applicant, acquire land 

 which they might find some difficulty in re-letting in the event of the 

 tenant giving it up. In such cases it might be desirable in the interests 

 of the Council to arrange with their applicant to take the land on 

 lease. 



I am, &c, 

 T. H. Elliott, 



Secretary. 



_ , The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 



American Gooseberry w made an 0r der, dated 9 th June, 1910, 

 Mildew (Chapel entitled the American Gooseberry Mildew 

 Fields Allotments) ( Chapel Fields Allotments) Order of 1910, pre- 

 Order. scribing precautions to be taken in picking 



gooseberries on the allotments known as the Chapel Fields Allotments, . 

 Somersham, Huntingdon. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Agricultural Machinery in the Bordeaux District. — H.M. Consul at 

 Bordeaux (Mr. R. D. G. Macdonald), in his Report for 1909 (F.O. 



Reports, Annual Series, No. 4,456), states that 

 Demand for Agricul- the total weight of agricultural machinery im- 

 tural Machinery, &C, ported into the Consular district in 1909 was 

 Abroad. 8,558 tons, an increase as compared with 190& j 



of 1,915 tons. Imports from the United 

 Kingdom amounted to 884 tons, against 1,041 tons in 190S. The year 

 was an average one as regards the sale generally of agricultural imple- 

 ments, the increase in imports on those in 1908 being due to the fact j 

 that very large stocks remained over in that year from 1907, and had 

 to be disposed of before fresh purchases could be made. The revision 

 of the French import tariff, also contributed to some extent, by inducing 

 importers to increase their stocks from abroad in anticipation of higher 

 duties. . f 



