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Official Notices and Circulars, [dec, 



C, and export licences can be issued in these cases. The conditions 

 governing the issue of A. and C. licences, which are in nearly all 

 respects the same as those described above, are set out in the respective 

 Orders. 



Sellers of gooseberry bushes are requested to advise their customers 

 to examine their purchases very carefully from whatever source they are 

 obtained, to cleanse them of all earth, and to cut off and burn the 

 tips before planting them, in order to avoid all risk of possible infec- 

 tion. 



Applications for licences must be made in writing to the Secretary 

 of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 4 Whitehall Place, London, 

 S.W., and reference should be made to the garden for which a licence 

 is required; the name or description as written on the notice Form A> 

 declaring the premises infected must be quoted in every case. 



T. H. Elliott, 



Secretary. 



The International Agricultural Institute has recently published the 

 first issue of its monthly Bulletin of the Bureau of Economic and 

 Social Intelligence. This publication, of 

 Bulletins of the which an English edition has been issued, 

 International Institute consists of 450 pages, and deals, as will the 

 of Agriculture. two following numbers, with agricultural 

 co-operation and organisation in the States 

 adhering to the Institute. In the fourth issue of the Bulletin it is 

 hoped to publish studies on agricultural insurance in all its forms, and 

 later non-co-operative agricultural credit will be dealt with. 



The present number contains an account of the position of agricul- 

 tural co-operation in seven countries, namely : — Germany, Austria, 

 Italy, Denmark, United States, Great Britain and Ireland, and Japan. 

 In the case of the three first-mentioned countries the account given is 

 complete, whilst in the case of the remaining countries the accounts 

 will be completed in the two succeeding issues. The arrangement of 

 the Bulletin is admirable, and deserves special attention. While each 

 country is considered separately, the information given is arranged on 

 a uniform plan, making comparison simple. The account of each 

 country is divided into five parts. The first part contains certain 

 introductory information of a general character which enables the 

 reader to understand the relation of the general situation of the 

 country to the specific conditions of its agricultural organisations. The 

 second part gives short monographs dealing with the different forms 

 of co-operative organisation in the country. In the case of Germany, 

 for instance, this part contains an historical and statistical sketch of 

 the present state of agricultural co-operation in Germany and a brief 

 study of the co-operative land credit societies in that country. The 

 third part is devoted to various difficulties and problems which have 

 arisen in the country under consideration. The fourth part contains 

 a record of recent events, and in this part an account of new legisla- 

 tive or administrative measures adopted by the various States in 

 favour of agricultural organisations is given, together with any reso- 

 lutions meriting attention which have been adopted by the more 

 important societies. In this part also, a bibliography is given of the 



