1912.] 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



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the importation into German East Africa of cattle and other cloven- 

 footed animals from European countries. (Board of Trade Journal, 

 December 14th, 191 1.) 



International Agricultural Exhibition at the Hague in 1913. — A 



national and international agricultural exhibition will be held at the 

 Hague in August, 19 13, under the auspices 

 Agricultural of the R oya i Netherland Agricultural Society. 



Exhibition Abroad. Two sections only of the exhibition will be 

 open to international exhibits, viz., agricultural implements and agri- 

 cultural buildings. The implements section will be divided into four 

 classes — (1) for exhibits of Dutch and foreign manufactured implements 

 and machinery; (2) for exhibits of implements and machinery made 

 in rural districts ; (3) for exhibits of new or improved implements ; and 

 (4) trials of implements. The section for agricultural buildings will 

 be divided into two classes — (1) for building materials; (2) for actual 

 buildings or models, drawings, and photographs. Full particulars as to 

 the exhibition may be obtained from the Secretary of the Royal 

 Netherland Agricultural Society, Buitenhof, 42, the Hague, Holland. 



Action of the International Agricultural Institute with regard to Plant 

 Diseases. — The International Institute of Agriculture drew attention 

 in 1909 to the importance of disseminating 

 Miscellaneous information as to methods of combating plant 



Notes, diseases and to the desirability of effective con- 



trol of plant diseases on the part of the various Governments adhering 

 to the Institute. The adhering countries were also asked by the 

 Institute to consider the possibility of establishing a service for the 

 control of plant diseases or of developing their existing service. 



A Bureau of Agricultural Intelligence and Plant Diseases has 

 been formed at the Institute, and as a preliminary measure a mono- 

 graph* has been published giving an account of the actual organisa- 

 tions existing in different countries for the control of plant diseases. 

 The Bureau also commenced the publication in November, 19 10, of 

 a monthly bulletin containing summaries of articles in agricultural 

 periodicals and in the publications of laboratories and experimental 

 stations having reference to plant diseases. 



The Institute recognised, however, that, in addition to this passive 

 side of its work in connection with plant diseases, it had an active 

 duty to perform by bringing about international arrangements whereby 

 the combating of plant diseases could be more effectively carried on. 

 Proposals were made at the General Assembly of the Institute in 

 December, 1909, by which State-controlled experimental stations in 

 the different' countries should conduct research work according to a 

 given plan. Advice was asked of experts in Italy, France, Germany, 

 and the United Kingdom, and great divergence of opinion was found 

 to exist as to the general utility of the proposal. It was therefore 

 proposed at the last General Assembly of the Institute in May, 191 1, 

 that a programme of work as to plant diseases in which the co-opera- 

 tion of the different countries is desirable should be drawn up by an 



Inst it ut International a" Agriculture, Bureau des Rens eigne ments Agricoles et 

 des Maladies des Plantes. — L'Organisation actuel du service de protection contre les 

 maladies des plantes et les insectes nuisibles dans les divers pays (223 pp.). Rome, 



