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Rooks and Seed Wheat. 



and establish markets and a demand for Australian beef and 

 mutton among the coloured races of Singapore, Batavia, and 

 the East. 



The Bavarian Hop and Barley Show will this year be held 

 from the 8th to the loth October, both 

 ^^^^and ^^^^ inclusive, in the Royal Industrial 



Barley Show. Museum at Nuremberg. The exhibits 

 of hops and barley will be confined to the 

 produce of Bavaria, but there will be an international section 

 for the exhibition of plans of buildings, and machines and 

 implements employed in the manipulation of barley and 

 hops for brewing and other purposes. 



Investigations were made in the spring and autumn of last 

 year at the Neuburg Agricultural School 

 ^ed^h^at with a view to protect newly-sown 

 wheat against the depredations of rooks. 

 A report which has lately been published on the subject 

 indicates that very good results were obtained, both as 

 regards germination of the plants and protection from 

 rooks, when the seed was treated with the following pre- 

 paration : — 200 grammes of coal tar, 200 grammes of 

 petroleum, and three litres of warm water per hectolitre of 

 seed ; the English equivalents being approximately 2J 

 ounces of coal tar and of petroleum, and one quart of water, 

 per bushel. 



In a Report on the Trade and Agriculture of Denmark 

 for the year 1 896, Captain James Boyle, 

 Danish Butter Majesty's Consul at Copenhagen, 



Exports in 1896. , , r . r 



states that the export of butter from 



Denmark in 1896 amounted to 133,150,000 lbs., which is 

 an increase of 3,520,000 lbs. over that of 1895, but the increase 



