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nine months previously tliat the department, shire, county, or other 

 such territorial division in which are situated the place or places de- 

 clared as being the source or sources where the potatoes were produced 

 are deemed by the Government to be entirely free from the said disease. 

 The examining officer may require that an attested copy of the Govern- 

 ment certificate be surrendered to him with respect to any or all con- 

 signments. A certificate with respect to any place will be considered 

 invalidated if the disease is recorded to be present there in a later- 

 issued certificate or in an authoritative report. The official certificate 

 required may be made as an endorsement on the consignor's declaration. 



A minimum fee of 2^d. per case or bag will be charged for sorting, 

 and a further charge of ^d. per case or bag will be made for every 

 I per cent, or fraction of i per cent, of potatoes which it is found 

 necessary to remove. Thus, if three cases in a hundred cases, or if 

 four to five cases are condemned, the fee will be at the rate of ^d. 

 per case. 



Importers and others interested can obtain copies of the regulations 

 when issued on application to the Acting Secretary for Agriculture, 

 Pretoria, or the High Commissioner for the Union of South Africa, 

 London. It is expected that the regulations will be in force in time to 

 admit of their application to the first consignments of potatoes which 

 will arrive from Europe in the present season. 



Importation of Dogs into the Straits Settlements. — The Federated 

 Malay States Government Gazette, of 26th May last, contains certain 

 rules which have been published for general information relating to the 

 importation of dogs into the Straits Settlements. 



Under these rules, which amend the Quarantine Rules of 1908, it 

 is provided that no person shall bring any dog into any Settlement 

 either from another Settlement or from a place outside the Colony, 

 unless a permit is first obtained from the veterinary officer of the 

 Settlement into which the dog is to be brought, or from such officer 

 as may be empowered to issue such permit. 



In granting such permit, the veterinary officer may, in his discretion, 

 impose such conditions as to observations as may be considered necessary, 

 and may require the dog on landing to be detained in quarantine for a 

 period not exceeding three months. — {Board of Trade Journal, July 13, 

 1911.) 



Barley and Hop Exhibition at Chicago. — The second International 

 Brewers' Congress and an International Barley and Hop Prize Exhibi- 

 Agricultural tion will be held at Chicago from October 12th 



Congresses and to 22nd next. The first Congress was held 

 Exhibitions Abroad. in connection with the Brussels Exhibition in 

 1910. The Congress will be divided info six sections for the di^^cussion 

 of the following questions connected with brewing : (i) Science of 

 brewing (chemistry and biology) ; (2) Agriculture (barley and other 

 cereals, and hops); (3) Practice of brewing and malting; (4) Materials 

 (cereals, raw and prepared, and miscellaneous); (5) Engineering, re- 

 j frigeration and fuel ; (6) Economics (legislative, dietetic, and social). 

 I There will be an American exhibition of brewing machinery, materials, 

 and products, and in connection with this the International Competitive 

 , Pri/e Exhibit of Barley and Hops; exhibits of agricultural experiment 



