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Asturias, Spain, states that improvement in methods of agriculture is 

 very slow; the use of modern implements, however, is increasing, 

 thanks to the energy of several merchants who spare no effort to push 

 the sale of cheap American and Belgian ploughs and other implements. 

 A large trade is being done in scythes, sickles, and hoes, the two former 

 mostly imported from Austria. The scythes are of a very showy 

 description, being highly polished and bearing the figure of a female 

 reaper stamped on them in different colours; this makes them very 

 popular among the peasant farmers. 



Show of Machinery and Implements at Accra. — An Agricultural 

 Show will be held at Accra (Gold Coast) on 25th and 26th November 

 next, and the Commercial Intelligence Branch 

 Exhibitions and of the Board of Trade are informed that 

 Congresses Abroad. British exhibits of agricultural implements, 

 &c, are especially invited for the show. Prizes 

 are to be awarded for the best specimens of machinery for treating 

 rubber and cocoa, and for nut-cracking, and also for the best type of 

 hand or horse cart suitable for the Gold Coast. All agricultural labour 

 in the colony is done by hand, and exhibits of implements, such as 

 hoes, pick-axes, axes, and tapping knives for rubber will be welcomed. 

 Exhibits will be carried freight free to and from the show by the Elder 

 Dempster Line, provided they are plainly marked as for the Agri- 

 cultural Show. 



Exhibits for the International Exhibition of Horticultural Products 

 at Paris. — The French Journal Officiel for the 31st May contains a 

 French Presidential Decree, dated the 30th May, which constitutes as a 

 Customs warehouse the grounds of the International Exhibition of 

 Horticultural Products, to be held at the Cour-la-Reine, Paris, from 

 the 4th to the 13th November next. Articles intended for exhibition 

 there may be forwarded through to their destination, under ordinary 

 or international transit regulations, without Customs examination at 

 the frontier. 



Exhibition at Rostov-on-Don. — H.M. Consul-General at Odessa 

 (Mr. C. S. Smith) reports that an Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition 

 is to be held at Rostov-on-Don in September and October next. The 

 Industrial section, including dairy appliances and agricultural 

 machinery, as well as manufacturing industries proper, is to be open 

 from ioth/2.3rd September to 26th September/gth October. Applications 

 for space will be received up to 6th/ 19th September. 



Copies of the Exhibition programme (in Russian) may be obtained 

 by British firms on application to the Commercial Intelligence Branch 

 of the Board of Trade, 73 Basinghall Street, London, E.C. — (Board 

 of Trade Journal, June 23rd, 19 10.) 



Forestry Congress at Brussels. — The Board are informed that the 

 Congress of the Association Internationale des Stations de Recherches 

 Forestieres (a preliminary report of which appeared in this Journal 

 for November, 1909), will meet daily from the 10th September until 

 the 19th September, 19 10. Visits have been arranged for the members 

 of the Congress to various woods and forests and experimental 

 nurseries, and inspection will be made of experiments in progress. 



