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Vol. I.] 



September 1894. 



[No. 1. 



INTPtODUCTORY NOTE. 



In introducing the first number of the Journal, 

 the Board of Agriculture consider it desirable to 

 indicate briefly the class of information it is likely 

 to contain. 



The Board have been in the habit of issuing from 

 time to time, as the necessity arose, leaflets dealing 

 chiefly with insects and other pests injurious to 

 agriculture, and this form of publication has been 

 found useful on occasions when it has been expedient 

 to insure a rapid and effective circulation. 



There is, however, accessible to the Board, informa- 

 tion of a less urgent character, but possessing more 

 or less interest for agriculturists in this country. 

 With the double object of providing a suitable 

 channel for giving publicity to such information, and 

 securing a medium for systematically recording 

 certain statistical and other intelligence which could 

 not be seasonably or conveniently inserted in the 

 annual publications of the Department, the Board 

 have deemed it desirable to issue a quarterly Journal. 



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