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Bear in mind that the germs of the disease are easily carried from an infected farm 

 on the soles of the boots and feet. 



Observe that fowl-enteritis is ahnost invariably produced in dirty surroundings, and 

 that it can best be avoided by cleanliness and disinfection. 



The above preventive measures will guard not only against enteritis, but also 

 against other zymotic (infectious) diseases to which poultry are liable chiefly roup, 

 gapes, tuberculosis, and diseases of the comb and skin. 



They will also improve the general condition of fowls and will increase their market 

 value. 



Agriculture in Buenos Ayres. 



The Board have received from the Argentine Ministry of the 

 Interior a copy of a report relating to the agriculture, cattle- 

 breeding, and commerce of the Province of Buenos Ayres 

 during the year 1895. This publication, which has been pre- 

 pared by the Director General of Statistics, gives very full 

 details on the various subjects in question, and it contains a 

 large number of coloured diagrammatic charts, in illustration 

 of the natural and other features of the region. The soil of 

 the province is said to be the best and most fertile in the 

 country and to show no sign of exhaustion, even after three 

 centuries of cultivation. 



The importance of the wheat crop in Argentina is very 

 fully explained. The wheat export trade commenced as 

 recently as 1876, and it increased by leaps and bounds until 

 the Republic has attained the third rank among wheat ex- 

 porting countries of the world. The area under this crop in 

 the province of Buenos Ayres was 220,000 acres in 1881, and 

 it had increased to 990,000 acres in 1895. The Northern por- 

 tion is best adapted for the growth of wheat, and it yields 

 proportionally three times more than the other parts of the 

 province. Of the principal varieties sown, five are mentioned, 

 of which one, named Barletta, seems destined to supplant the 

 others on account of certain advantages which it possesses 

 as regards its contents of gluten. The general adoption of 

 this variety would moreover produce a degree of uniformity 

 which does not now exist in Argentine wheat. 



The climate and rainfall of the province adapt it most suit- 

 ably for the cultivation of maize, the export trade in which 

 commenced earlier than in the case of wheat, and it exceeded 



