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Danish Loan Societies. 



further directed that hides of neat cattle, other than dry 

 salted or arsenic cured, the product of the countries above 

 named, required disinfection wherever they were shipped via 

 the ports of any other country; and that hides, other than 

 dry salted or arsenic cured, the product of any country not 

 named above, if trans-shipped and actually landed at ports in 

 any of the countries named required disinfection. 



It is now stated that it has been represented to the 

 Treasury Department that great injury results to moist hides 

 by the process of disinfection prescribed by the above circular ; 

 and, as hides stripped from cattle at abattoirs are presumably 

 in a condition not requiring disinfection, it is now directed 

 that, so far as the countries of Norway, Sweden, and Great 

 Britain are concerned, entry may be allowed of moist hides 

 imported direct therefrom without disinfection, provided the 

 invoice contain the declaration of the shipper that the hides 

 are the product of such countries and were stripped from 

 cattle in those countries, and that a certificate be also 

 produced from the official veterinarian to the effect that the 

 hides were taken from perfectly healthy cattle. 



Danish Agricultural Loan Societies. 



The French Bulletin des Seances dc la Societe Nationale 

 d' Agriculture for December, 1898, contains an account, con- 

 tributed by M. Roeder, of the provisions made in Denmark 

 by the law of 26th March, 1897, to enable agriculturists to 

 procure capital at a low rate of interest, for working their 

 farms. The procedure enjoined under this measure is as 

 follows. 



A demand for the formation of such a society must be sent 

 in by not less than fifty proprietors, owning at least 500 

 bead of cattle, to the General Council of the province 

 which nominates from among them a president and four 

 members of council ; the latter only serve provisionally until 

 a council can be duly elected at a general meeting. At this 

 general meeting, also, the statutes are drawn up for sanction 

 by the Governnient. These statutes must, if the society is to 



