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GENERAL AGRICULTURAL NOTES [June 1896. 



exporter must make a declaration that the meat submitted for 

 export is the meat referred to in the inspector's certificate. The 

 inspector must satisfy himself that proper arrangements have 

 beenmade with respect to the accommodation, food, and water 

 provided for live stock during the entire voyage. 



Severe penalties may be imposed for attempts to evade this 

 law. Any person exporting, or attempting to export, live stock 

 or meat in contravention of the provisions of this Act, or of any 

 regulations which may be drawn up for its efficient administra- 

 tion, is liable to a fine not exceeding 100Z. The signing of a 

 false certificate, or the mixing of uncertificated with certificated 

 meat, renders the offender liable to imprisonment for a term 

 not exceeding 12 months. 



Agricultural Labour in April. 



The agricultural correspondent to the Labour Department of 

 the Board of Trade, reporting, in the Labour Gazette, on the 

 condition of agricultural labour, states that, generally speaking, 

 employment was regular during the month of April, and that 

 the weather was very favourable for outdoor work. 



In the northern counties work was reported to be generally 

 regular. In two poor law unions in Cumberland some slight 

 irregularity existed in the case of oddmen, chiefly owing to the 

 forward state of farm work. From the midland counties favour- 

 able reports were received, with only two exceptions, namely, 

 from a union in Nottingham and another in Worcester. In the 

 eastern counties work was generally regular in the counties of 

 Lincoln, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridge. In the latter 

 county employment was somewhat irregular in one union. No 

 irregularity of work was reported in the home counties except 

 in two unions in Berkshire and two in Kent. In the southern 

 and western counties slight irregularity of work was reported in 

 a union in Dorset and in two unions in Cornwall. In the Rye 

 union of Sussex there were a considerable' number of men in 

 irregular employment in certain parishes. 



Seasonal advances in wages, amounting to Is. a week, are 

 stated to have taken place in April in certain districts in the 

 following counties : — Warwick, Worcester, Oxford, Beds, Suffolk, 

 Essex, Wiltshire, Dorset, and Gloucester. In the neighbourhood 

 of Lincoln the advance amounted to Is. 6d. a week, viz., from 

 13s. 6d\ to 15s. 



Sale of Honey in Belgium. 



The Board have received copy of a Belgian decree, to take 

 effect as from the 1st July next, defining what is to be considered 

 as honey, and regulating the sale of this commodity. 



